XPost: alt.usage.english
A crawl on the TV screen is usu. ALL UPPERCASE ?
-------- to make them less annoying, right?
Mixed case Text would be harder to ignore ???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_ticker#/media/File:USA_TV_News_Simulation_1.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_ticker
A news ticker (sometimes called a crawler, crawl, slide,
zipper, ticker tape, or chyron) is a horizontal or vertical (depending
on a language's writing system) text-based display either in the form of
a graphic that typically resides in the lower third of the screen space
on a television station or network (usually during news programming) or
as a long, thin scoreboard-style display seen around the facades of some offices or public buildings dedicated to presenting headlines or minor
pieces of news.
It is an evolution of the ticker tape, a continuous paper
print-out of stock quotes from a printing telegraph which was mainly
used in stock exchanges before the advance of technology in the 1960s.
----------- the 1st Sentence is TOO long...
>>> or vertical (depending on a language's writing system)
That's really stupid. ------ reminds me of PTD.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
