Gotcha. Thank you for the explanation.
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It seems like my sister and I will always be “the girls” to a certain group of relatives, no matter what we say. And like you said, my brother is never “the boy!”
Thank you for that most excellent explanation! I had no idea. Now I’ll pay attention.
My partner caught herself referring to her 12 year old self as looking like an adult and we just stared at each other in silence for a while. It can take a long time to stop holding these beliefs about ourselves and excuse the abuse that we received
Nope, the grammatical structure of the sentence is clear. The police are confirming that a report was filed that makes a claim against Mr. X, not that police are confirming Mr. X’s guilt.
Ahhh the outfit thing is fucked.
YES. I developed early (6th grade) and was confused and frightened by catcalls I started getting. I thought, “I’m just a kid!”
Well there’s nothing like huddling around a cold, dead body to bring people together! Hahaha!!!
Jez’s writers often can’t be bothered to use the correct “its,” which one would think is a pretty basic requirement for being a professional writer.
An old woman used the word sexy to describe her outfit.
So weird. And funerals seem to make them worse than normal.
What! I have a 3 year old daughter too and if anyone said anything WEIRD I would be insane... what have they said!?!?
Why are older relatives so weird at funerals?!
I might shove an AP style book right up a wazoo!
This.
That’s concisely explained. Very nice.
Not really. The legal concerns with using “alleged victim” vs. “victim” are pretty minimal. People think using “allegedly” is about covering yourself legally, but it doesn’t. Rather, “alleged” is, according to the AP and New York Times’ stylebooks, police jargon that should be avoided particularly in reference to or…
Thank you for pointing out the horror that is ‘Alleged victim’.
Hell yes. These are KIDS. These are CHILDREN. They wouldn’t be calling a 14 year-old boy an “underage man.” They’d be calling him a 14 year-old boy. Epstein is a child rapist.
Amen. “Underage women” is one of those phrases that, if you went through a halfway decent journalism program, gets beaten out of you by a curmudgeonly editing professor wielding the AP Stylebook.