Comment on Facebook 1: 0 Simon Cowell - Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for XmasComments−msie16yFacebook:1 Simon Cowell:0 ?−scorxn16yThe syntax in the headline is common outside the US. eg: http://livescore.com/−DougBTX16yIt's used in score listings, so that you can read down a colum of numbers side by side, but I don't remember ever seeing it used in prose. I'm quite sure it is normally "foo: 1, bar: 0"...−perokreco16yYou're wrong. Here is another example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/8377195.st...−zandorg16yI read it as "A record by Simon Cowell called Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for Xmas". Your formatting is better.
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The syntax in the headline is common outside the US. eg: http://livescore.com/
It's used in score listings, so that you can read down a colum of numbers side by side, but I don't remember ever seeing it used in prose. I'm quite sure it is normally "foo: 1, bar: 0"...
You're wrong. Here is another example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/8377195.st...
I read it as "A record by Simon Cowell called Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for Xmas". Your formatting is better.