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@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-29 16:12:36

This is what BBC news articles look like nowadays: Every single sentence is its own paragraph, and I absolute cannot stand this “style” at all. I suspect the editors only care about making articles look nice in the mobile app.
IMHO, paragraphs are specifically meant to intuitively communicate which sentences belong together because of content/meaning. Just separating any sentences is what full stops do. If actually no two consecutive sentences belong together, the article is just incoh…

An actual article on the BBC website. The headline has been replaced with “Lorem ipsum”, and all numbers and Latin characters have been censored, so that only punctuation remains. Now, it is clearly visible that every single paragraph contains only one full stop (i.e. at each end).