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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•8 days agoThat doesn’t sound like headline grammar to me. You wouldn’t introduce confusion about who is doing the shooting on purpose, I don’t think.
minus-square@samus12345linkEnglish4•8 days agoDo you have any other examples of it being used this way? “By Pretending Shot In Ear Again” is what I would have expected.
It’s headline grammar. It’s deliberate
That doesn’t sound like headline grammar to me. You wouldn’t introduce confusion about who is doing the shooting on purpose, I don’t think.
Do you have any other examples of it being used this way? “By Pretending Shot In Ear Again” is what I would have expected.