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I don't know who started this, but I always feel frustrated when I see headline along the lines of "USA says" or "China signal", countries are not people.

I don't understand why don't even the best news outlets put headlines like " Official x said this on official order on USA" Or something like that.

I really don't understand who came up with this way of reporting where they report on officials as their country and I always thought that this is dumb.

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[–] simplymath@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

This is so common in writing that is has its own name.

All hands on deck

Yes. The person speaking probably wants the legs, torsos, etc of the crew there as well.

Why do they say the shorter thing? Because it means exactly the same thing to anyone who has taken high school level English classes and uses fewer words.

"Russia" is not an entity that has an ability to do things and readers understand that.