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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Maybe a post editor hastily deleted some words?

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