Victorian police have arrested Erin Patterson in relation to the suspected mushroom poisoning deaths in regional Australia.

  • Quokka
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    1311 months ago

    Once the search of the premises is complete today the female will be interviewed by homicide squad investigators.

    The female? Not the woman or even her name? Talk about lazy grammar

    • @maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone
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      1211 months ago

      Apart from making me giggle at how Ferengi it sounds isn’t this like some kind of internal policy driven language and not just the whim of a staffer?

      • @idiomaddict@feddit.de
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        211 months ago

        That’s even grosser. How should the newspaper know or anyone care if a person is female, have they interviewed her doctor or taken a dna sample?

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          11 months ago

          What I meant was I think the writer was quoting the police or other similar department from a press conference. It sounds like police press conference legalese. I don’t see it in the article anywhere though so I’m not sure where the quote - if it is a quote - came from.