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Originally posted by Jarvmeister To fit more topic into headline space whilst ensuring the font is as large in size as possible. Thought it was pretty obvious myself. They don't do it for fun, or even for the benefit of COR discussions you know.

Given ambiguity of the kind being discussed is fairly commonplace and can be avoided with the addition of a single punctuation mark, I don't think it's a conscious decision on the part of the authors balancing conservation of space against efficacy of communication. Like most grammatical constructions that lead to ambiguity it's probably something that simply didn't enter the author's mind at the time.

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