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.

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    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?