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To: Mermaid Girl

Wait A second... I read this all wrong. She shot the jerk!!

GOOD ON HER!

It’s been a long day. Seriously, a long day...

Open mouth, insert foot.


7 posted on 04/28/2023 4:50:00 PM PDT by Mermaid Girl
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To: Mermaid Girl
Open mouth, insert foot.

Did you mean "open mouth, insert fin"?

11 posted on 04/28/2023 4:54:38 PM PDT by null and void (Attention! Non-compliant Resident Alert! Attention! Non-compliant Resident Alert! Attention! Non-com)
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To: Mermaid Girl

It is an easy interpretive error. What I first read “A Texas grandmother shot dead” I thought as you did.

Then, finishing the headline, you realize she shot dead the robber.

It’s a common British usage, not so common in the USA.


18 posted on 04/28/2023 5:03:34 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: Mermaid Girl
A Texas grandmother shot dead

No the story was written incorrectly. More ignorance in jotting down text that's called "journalism" and printed somewhere and called "an article/headline" (in this case all 3.)

28 posted on 04/28/2023 5:47:10 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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