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AI sales startup 11x claims customers it doesn’t have for software that doesn’t work (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (12 children)

No, that title is orthographically wrong, besides using some very non-standard phrasing: the name of the startup, 11x, should have been between commas.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (10 children)

,ahahaha, what,

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (9 children)

AI sales startup Never claims customers it doesn’t have for software that doesn’t work

See how that risks getting really confusing without commas or quotes?

They're called appositive commas and they surround "not essential" add-on information. The name of the startup here is not truly essential, it's added just for color (pretty sure nobody'd think, "oh, a typo" if they wrote "12x").

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The name of the company is actually important information in a news story about a company.

And yes, if you change the headline to one that is confusing, then it becomes confusing.

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