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.

  • Serinus@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    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”.