alt Hacker NewsUsually, when you're editing something, you try to make sure your output is legal in the target language.
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degamad • today at 7:41 AM
Headlines have long had their own grammatical rules only roughly aligning to English in the limit...
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The shortest 'legal' sentence I can come up with is 82 Characters
"Why did Microsoft Entertainment Pack have a sticker announcing that it had Tetris?"
The had... had... is doing the heavy lifting for omitting the 'did' - but it's perfectly comprehensible.
More to the point, 'English' doesn't have a Universal agreed dialect, pronunciation, or spelling. You'd lose your mind trying to square the circle of Hiberno English - the language of Joyce, Beckett, Keane, Wilde, Yeats et al - based on your notions of 'proper' English.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English