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What is this headline? Fucking garble. Every word capitalized, reads like shit. All the headlines are written in this weird way lately
Title case or headline case - Wikipedia
But arguably that headline is garbage title gore. The "On" should be "on" the very least and "Swiftboating" would make it more comprehensible.
Capitalizing every major word in a headline has been commonplace since the 18th century...
Aside from that, what's the issue?
Are you unfamiliar with The New York Times or The Washington Post?
Are you unfamiliar with the colloquialism "jump on board"?
Do you not know who the "Trump Camp" is?
Are you unfamiliar with the political neologism "Swiftboating"?
Do you not know who Tim Walz is?
For me it's the Swift boating, certainly when it's with capitalization and a space. It makes me think they somehow went on a cruise on Taylor Swift's private yacht.
It's a prime example of why the headline capitalization is not great.
Hundreds of years of years of journalistic tradition should be trashed, because you thought Talking Points Memo was talking about Taylor Swift?
What next, are you going to get confused reading about Watergate in history books, because you thought a gate that holds water is a dam?
Good lord, we are a failed society...
Lol. Imagine suffering like this over some random dude online.
If you don't know that rather obscure reference the sentence turns into a garden path one.
I'm not even a American native so how should I know. Watergate I grok, this I've not heard of
If you give up on society this easy i think you are the problem, though.
-in America
We don't do that much in Europe