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Topic: Midlife language

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/tra … s-AA1nOciE

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Re: Midlife language

William, Please stop your very annoying habit of posting links with no explanation of what they are about.

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GB wrote:

links with no explanation of what they are about

It doesn’t help that the topic title is truncated. Instead of ‘Midlife language’ it should read ‘Midlife Language: 25 Surprising Phrases That Sneak Up on You’.

Also, once again, the scraped content as presented by MSN falls short. It forces the viewer to follow a series of separate pages as a slideshow (one that doesn’t even autoplay by default). The original site presents all of the content on a single page:

https://lovelistsuk.com/surprising-phra … up-on-you/

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Re: Midlife language

GB wrote:

William, Please stop your very annoying habit of posting links with no explanation of what they are about.

Well, the title was in the link, but alas all of the text of the link was not displayed.

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William wrote:

Well, the title was in the link, but alas all of the text of the link was not displayed.

Well, it’s not quite true that all of the text wasn’t displayed, but some of it wasn’t! https://punster.me/images/wink.gif

You’ve posted here often enough to be well aware that a URL is displayed with an ellipsis in the middle if it’s too long. In any case, it doesn’t seem reasonable to expect the reader to inspect the minutiae of a URL in order to (try to) determine the nature of the contents of the linked resource.

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Re: Midlife language

Why wasn't "I hate mobile phones" or similar, not on the list?