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Seven out of 10 Europeans believe their country takes in too many immigrants (english.elpais.com)

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Europeans view immigration with increasing suspicion. Seven out of 10 Europeans believe that their country takes in too many migrants, according to a survey carried out by BVA Xsight for ARTE Europe Weekly, a project led by the French-German TV channel ARTE GEIE and which EL PAÍS has participated in, as part of the countdown to the European elections in June.

The survey shows that 85% of respondents feel the European Union needs to take more action to combat irregular migration. And only 39% believe that Europe needs immigration today.

The countries where most people consider immigration a problem are Bulgaria (74% of respondents), the Czech Republic (73%), Hungary and Cyprus (68% in both cases). Paradoxically, in Italy, the European country where the largest number of immigrants entered irregularly last year (157,652), only 44% of respondents viewed it as a problem and only 14% saw it as the main problem. In Greece and Spain, the second and third countries with the most irregular arrivals in 2023, respectively, only 11% of respondents considered it the issue of most concern to them, below the European average of 17%. However, Greece is the country where the most people (90%) believe their country takes in too many migrants.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Seven out of 10

Why? Why mix words and digits in that way. That's not acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

That's how I was taught to write it. One through nine get written out and anything 10 or higher is numeric.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

I'm pretty sure that's in the style guide of a lot of publications

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

One to twelve where I'm from, 13 and above as numbers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm very sorry.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Generally, numbers are not used to start a sentence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

yeah, it's AP style guidelines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I was taught that the default is to write out numbers, but if you're comparing multiple numbers, they're normally supposed to be written in numeric form. I feel like they should have either started with a number or restructured the sentence.

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Apparently AP style guidelines say that for ten and above, you should use numeric form. Below that, write it out. That may be the driving factor here.

https://writingexplained.org/ap-style/ap-style-numbers

In general you should spell out numbers one through nine in AP Style. Consider the following examples of AP Style numbers,

The Chicago White Sox finished second.

She had six months left of her pregnancy.

You should use figures for 10 or above and whenever preceding a unit of measure or referring to ages of people, animals, events or things. Also use figures in all tabular matter, and in statistical and sequential forms.

I generally agree with most press conventions, and I'd buy into some of that, but I don't think I really like the "ten cutoff" convention.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

As a former ink stained wretch, I can confirm that is the reason.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Probably because of those immigrants too. They ruined our grammar!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Absolutely, with their arabic numerals and all! It should read "Seven out of X"!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

From the AP Stylebook:

Spell out all numerals that begin a sentence, except a calendar year. Unless another specific rule applies, spell out whole numbers below 10 and use figures for 10 and above.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago

Shit newspaper