At least 49 dead in South Africa flooding, students washed away in bus (www.aljazeera.com)

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[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

I'm giving that comma in the hed some serious side-eye. I get Al-Jazeera isn't an English-native publication, but they usually do better than this. In this context, the comma is saying the two are unrelated. An "as" or "with" fixes the issue.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 months ago

Would a semi-colon work, to tie the two phrases together?

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

I’d probably replace it with the word “after”

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

I mean, that could work as well. A comma in a hed replaces "and" -- semicolons are very rare, though.

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