A Jersey barrier, or Jersey wall, is a modular concrete or plastic barrier employed to separate lanes of traffic
I know what a Jersey Barrier is but I was making fun of the stupidly worded sentence.
Sounded like he was shot in a shirt. Jersey Barrier is a proper name for an item and should have been either spelled out or put in with Caps.
I hate piss-poor writing. I’m editing several chapters of a book I’m helping with and will make some corrections/additions for clarity that she missed. I will also provide the “context” for those changes, which to the untrained eye may seem minor, but to the legal eye and scholars eye, are major changes.
A friend of mine, who should have known better (he didn’t consult me), ended up getting sued by a very nasty attorney for defamation (the attorney, who I knew, was a crazy leftist but he picked up on one set of mistransposed words and he created legal hell for my friend) and reportedly cost him about $10,000 to settle the lawsuit.
Here at FR we can screw around with words, but you still have to make your meaning clear. “shot in a jersey” means absolutely nothing to me. It may be a local expression but I’m not a “local” of where the event took place.
Out west they’re referred to as K rails. No one I know of uses the term Jersey barrier. Sounds gay.