Wudi@feddit.uk to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL that reading scores have plummeted in school districts around the U.S.lemmy.imagisphe.reimagemessage-square217linkfedilinkarrow-up1735arrow-down114file-text
arrow-up1721arrow-down1imageTIL that reading scores have plummeted in school districts around the U.S.lemmy.imagisphe.reWudi@feddit.uk to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square217linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarebrown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·2 months agoDamnit NYT, states have an abbreviation standard!
minus-squarenickiwest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 months agoJournalists have always used the old postal abbreviations. It’s part of the Associated Press style. The NYT has its own style guide that doesn’t always match the AP.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThe problem is for a lot of those I’m just guessing what they’re supposed to be.
minus-squareID10T@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoWhich ones have you guessing? It feels a little insane to read compared to the standard 2 letter abbreviation, but they’re all pretty clear to me.
minus-squareArmok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoGeorgia, Virginia, and Vt. is Vermont.
minus-squarenickiwest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThose are all literally the current standard postal abbreviations, just not in all caps.
minus-squarearchitect@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYes but people are now too stupid to know them.
minus-squareNιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoIf I could read, I would have taken this personally.
minus-squareRooster326@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYes but the average NYT reader doesn’t know them. Something to do with DC being the third lowest on this graph
Damnit NYT, states have an abbreviation standard!
Journalists have always used the old postal abbreviations. It’s part of the Associated Press style.
The NYT has its own style guide that doesn’t always match the AP.
The problem is for a lot of those I’m just guessing what they’re supposed to be.
Which ones have you guessing? It feels a little insane to read compared to the standard 2 letter abbreviation, but they’re all pretty clear to me.
What’s Ga. Va. and Gt.
Georgia, Virginia, and Vt. is Vermont.
Those are all literally the current standard postal abbreviations, just not in all caps.
Yes but people are now too stupid to know them.
If I could read, I would have taken this personally.
Yes but the average NYT reader doesn’t know them.
Something to do with DC being the third lowest on this graph