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  • It's a thing that comes from the era of printed newspapers. Every word took up valuable space and cost a lot of ink when printed on millions of papers.

    If you could cut a word from a headline and still make perfect sense to readers, you did it. There were no sentences which readers couldn't understand if you replaced all the ands with commas, so it became the standard for newspaper headlines to do so.

  • I would argue that passages like this (Monte cristo) train you to understand OP's slob: “I was then almost assured that the inheritance had neither profited the Borgias nor the family, but had remained unpossessed like the treasures of the Arabian Nights, which slept in the bosom of the earth under the eyes of the genie.”

    Also, Oliver twist is by the same author as op.

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  • I kept my name. It's unisex, and a search of it on LinkedIn actually shows like a 70-30 split of female to male respectively. I'm comfortable with it and used to it and, living in the US rn, I don't want to deal with all the name change issues.

  • For representation on this space (lemmy) in particular, it's hard to know what percentage of ppl here are poc. You rarely know what race, nationality, etc, the person behind a comment or post you see is.

    Maybe we should make an anonymous demographics poll or smth to help ppl feel less alone.