Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.

Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.

  • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
    55·
    1 year ago

    Quick tip - if the majority of people who read something find it ambiguous, it is. Plain and simple - especially for languages like English that don’t have a central authority for setting language rules.

    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
      8·
      1 year ago

      We can’t help it if the US doesn’t teach it’s population proper English, take it up with your education system.

    • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
      72·
      1 year ago

      Quick tip - People with a poor grasp of un-simplified English are not the majority

    • Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      It’s written by a British person in OG English. This phrase isn’t unambiguous here and it took me a sec to figure out why people were confused. It’s just a syntax difference but surely you can figure it out with context clues, just like I did with your interpretation.