Something like “Foreign ministers of Italy, France set to meet blablabla”. There’s just two parties being mentioned and yet no “and”. Makes me do a double take every time.
Asking because that’s not a thing in German and I’ve only started noticing it recently but since then I’ve seen it a lot.
That’s interesting. Especially because like I said it’s not a thing in German. They used to use just an ampersand to be space efficient. I like those unique sorts of quirks. Reminds me of the “etaoin shrdlu” thing. Also no German equivalent.
We know it primarily from context switching. It’s a thing very specific to headline-speak
Ironically when looking up “context switching” I got programming results. Apparently Wikipedia refers to the language thing as “code switching”.
Fewer letters made room to use a larger type-size and still fit on one line. I don’t know, but maybe the comma only needed a half space, & the ampersand needed a whole? They are cuter though.
I’m sure some meticulous German has calculated which letters are use most frequently, I wonder what “name” it would spell?