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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

back in the day news papers were like long tweets.

it cost extra for more words/characters.

so they remove/replace ones that didn't break context. 👈 like I did here. removed 8 words but preserved the idea.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But just saying “which he named” would be less characters and make more sense

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

Maybe a post editor hastily deleted some words?