• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    FFS do they really have to write headlines that imply the exact opposite of what happened? At first read, I thought the woman had been made to pay £3k, not that she had gotten paid £3k.

    I know “headlinese” is a thing and all, but is adding the word “got” really that inconvenient?