The node title should be what is the difference between *a and *a{GLOB} not a doubt in typeglob.

Had the OP entitled his post as: "I have a doubt about my understanding of typeglobs" would it still have offended your linguistic myopia?

And isn't there a long literary tradition of shortening titles to the point where they become punchy phrases rather than fully grammatical sentences.

There was a wonderful story on the BBC the other day (which I cannot link to because google seems to have been hacked Update:The story), about a female French Minister's choice to address the EU in English that was causing frowns in France. It went on to describe how English was becoming the defacto standard for international business discussions.

It then pointed out that "English" was the wrong term for the language that is beginning to dominate; favouring a the term "Globlish". A new-speak like simplification of English, unencumbered by the arbitrary set of rules dreamt up by a few dozen aristocratic academics in the late 1900s that have constrained and hampered the learnability of English ever since.

Instead, Globlish constrains itself to the communication of ideas and thoughts--rather than pedantic, elitist prose--through the use of a generic subset of six to seven thousand words and the complete relaxation of those archaic arbitrary rules of grammar. It went on to describe how a native English speaker stood listening in to a vociferous conversation (in Globlish) between three politicians from widely disparate geographical regions of the EU, and he (the native English speaker) seemed to be the only one who had trouble keeping up with the conversation.