Why the comma? That use of a comma is weird, right? Is it just me? They used one adjective. This wasn't a drug-infested, cum-covered sex den. This was merely a drug-infested sex den.
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or drug-infested, sex-ridden den
Whoever writes their captions apparently doesn't spend enough time at their local drug-infested sex den.
This is what happens when you hire editors based on who has the reddest hat.
Or spend way too much time at it.
You're right because the hyphantion of "drug-infested" causes it to act as an adjective to describe "sex dens". But there's only one adjective so the comma is not necessary
sex is not an adjective
I think they're presenting it as two separate problems. Drug infested is not describing the sex den. It is drug infested. It is a sex den.
Edit: Here's a good explanation: "A comma performs another kind of abbreviation in a headline, connecting two ideas without a linking word or phrase (often and)
As a side-note to your helpful link, I really dislike it when headlines use a comma in place of an "and". Like, use "&" if you really must.
Print is not exactly the main way people read the news now anyway, I think they can spare the pixels!
The problem with that interpretation is that you can't have "libraries turning into drug-infested, libraries turning into sex dens." because "drug-infested" is not a noun phrase a library can turn into like "sex dens" is. I also tried misinterpreting this comma as a comma between two adjectives, which doesn't work because "sex" is not an adjective. Maybe "Libraries turning drug-infested, into sex dens" fits your interpretation better. Does it?
I suppose, yes. The library is turning drug infested and into a sex den. The comma is replacing all the words "and into a." Which is essentially what you wrote. I guess i was trying to point out they were two separate situations and that drug infested is not describing the sex den. I was also trying to establish that commas can replace words and phrases. Although the example I gave above only replaced one word, it would make sense they would replace other words, as well, to shorten the headline.
I guess there are actual headline specific grammatical rules that are followed. While not a comprehensive list, some of these rules include leaving out auxiliary and some joining verbs, articles, conjunctions, etc, and replacing some words with various punctuation. Apparently, the list goes on.
wow TIL
semicolon
If you spent more time at drug infested sex dens, you’d be less against libraries
Uhh, the library?
"There's so many of them, which one?"
The question was almost rhetorical, because Fox couldn’t tell you if they wanted to.
the comma definitely increases the humour for me
I'm no grammar nerd but I think the comma makes "sex" an adjective, which should make me able to say that the drug-infested dens are "sex". this says a comma only splits coordinate adjectives, ~~which can be swapped and~~ where the latter does not form a common union with the noun, which means that even if "sex" were an adjective, the comma implies it can be swapped to make "sex, drug-infested dens" (single noun phrase), which it can't because sex is not an adjective.
Edit: this proof by contradiction doesn't quite work because adjectives have a preferred order by category of what they mean, and being coordinate doesn't mean they are in the same category.
My credibility for Fox has gone even deeper down the shitter after I was at the gym yesterday. They had Fox news playing and they were claiming that people are finding cartoon rat looking men to be attractive. What kind of fucking news story is that?
When I was a kid, I used to pick up newspapers and magazines that were pretty tabloidy, like "Bigfoot stopped moon landing because it will tip the flat earth". Shit that was so stupid but it was fun for me.
I'm so furious that my enjoyment of really obviously stupid news is now moonlit on channels like Fox News.
Schools putting out litter boxes for school kids? And you believe it? What the fuck.
Elizabeth Stanton , Larry Fink · Fox News: be ashamed of yourselves
How rude
And the article just KEEPS GOING
Yeah I was watching it while on the treadmills and they had like 4 or 5 news people sitting at the table discussing it. I was appalled by the low effort mind washing shit they pushed out.
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