The police seem to do a lot of this kind of thing - shooting armed people who are already dead. The following BBC headline was about an armed dead person who was shot in sarf London back in January:
"Weapons found after police in London shoot dead man who had crossbow."
English is so complex. You could phrase that half a dozen ways and still get the message across.
ReplyDeleteThe police seem to do a lot of this kind of thing - shooting armed people who are already dead. The following BBC headline was about an armed dead person who was shot in sarf London back in January:
ReplyDelete"Weapons found after police in London shoot dead man who had crossbow."
"You could phrase that half a dozen ways and still get the message across."
ReplyDeleteBring back proper editors!
"The police seem to do a lot of this kind of thing - shooting armed people who are already dead."
Standards are slipping all round.