Tourist climbs Brussels statue, breaks it
Tourist climbs Brussels statue, breaks it
www.bbc.com Tourist climbs Brussels statue, breaks it
The statue, outside the Brussels stock exchange, had just been restored at great cost.
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Semicolons cost nothing.
Isn't this acceptable though due to the subject of both "clauses" being the same ("tourist" both climbs and breaks)?
"and" doesn't cost anything either
It costs horizontal space, and my understanding is that newspaper headlines tend to minimize words as much as possible (while maintaining meaning).
I'm almost certain this would not be a correct usage of a semicolon, semicolons require both parts of the sentence to be compete.
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