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

  • @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.