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name_first_name_last t1_j5w3535 wrote

Reply to comment by kirksucks in First Navajo woman becomes Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council by AudibleNod

Not the first Navajo, the first woman. The title is dogshit.

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Table100 t1_j5wi1um wrote

according to other people in this thread and google, ‘first woman’ is a very important figure in navajo mythology, so they were probably trying to avoid being confusing/offensive

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half3clipse t1_j5wniei wrote

It's also just headlinese, attempting to compress important information into a compact headline.

And it's perfectly fine and understandable. Headline conventions do present some syntactic ambiguity at some point, but this is entirely understandable if the reader applies even a fraction of common sense, let alone one that reads the article under the headline.

On an ambiguity scale of 1 to crash blossoms, this is a 3 at most.

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