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Thank the acausal robot god for this thread, I can finally truly unleash my pettiness. Would anybody like to sneer at the rat tradition of giving everything overly grandiose names?
"500 Million, But Not A Single One More" has always annoyed me because of the redundancy of "A Single One." Just say Not One More! Fuck! Definitely trying to reach their title word count quota with that one.
The Zvi post that @slopjockey@[email protected] linked here is titled "On Car Seats as Contraception | Or: Against Car Seat Laws At Least Beyond Age 2" which is just... so god damn long for no reason. C'mon guys - if you want to use two titles, just use one. If you want to use two titles, just use one.
Then there's the whole slew of titles that get snowcloned from famous papers like how "Attention is all you need" spurred a bunch of "X is all you need" blog posts.
Here's a card for the CAH thing @self posted
Snowclone Titles Considered Harmful; or: __________
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ___
Sequences
This repetitive, tautological, meaningless, tautologous, redundant tautology really gets my goat!
At first I thought this was about how bench seats have just about vanished.