“Grubhub to pay $25M for ‘deceptive’ practices against customers, drivers” I’ve been seeing this quite a bit in news headlines. Does the comma replace an “&”? Is it just a weird clickbaity incomplete sentence thing?
“Grubhub to pay $25M for ‘deceptive’ practices against customers, drivers” I’ve been seeing this quite a bit in news headlines. Does the comma replace an “&”? Is it just a weird clickbaity incomplete sentence thing?
This is a literary device called asyndeton that is mostly used in oratory rather than in the written word, which is probably why it comes off a bit strange when reading it.
Oh wow that’s fascinating. As soon as I read your comment it clicked that this is more natural as a part of speech than writing.
Yes and it’s one of many used in headlines as part of a common style known as Headlinese.