resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 个月前NY Times’ David Brooks Said There’s Too Much Focus on Jeffrey Epstein. Here He Is Hanging With Epstein.theintercept.comexternal-linkmessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1682arrow-down115file-text
arrow-up1667arrow-down1external-linkNY Times’ David Brooks Said There’s Too Much Focus on Jeffrey Epstein. Here He Is Hanging With Epstein.theintercept.comresipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 个月前message-square58fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareP03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·2 个月前The Intercept, the same rag that ratted out Reality Winner, is lying with headlines? Say it ain’t so!
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 个月前They fucked up. They admitted it. They apologized. And they paid her legal fees. The real rags are the ones that fuck up and don’t even issue corrections or admit wrongdoing
minus-squareP03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·2 个月前And yet, she was still sentenced to five years in prison. Legal fees aren’t going to make up for that.
minus-squareIllecors@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 个月前I’m no native englisher, but doesn’t “hanging” here imply “having been hanged” rather than, what I suspect was intended - “hanging out”?
minus-squareMiddleAgesModem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 个月前yup. saying “we’ll get together and hang” doesn’t usually mean a meeting at the gallows.
minus-squarercbrk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 个月前American dialects often omit the “out” for the same meaning.
The Intercept, the same rag that ratted out Reality Winner, is lying with headlines? Say it ain’t so!
They fucked up. They admitted it. They apologized. And they paid her legal fees.
The real rags are the ones that fuck up and don’t even issue corrections or admit wrongdoing
And yet, she was still sentenced to five years in prison. Legal fees aren’t going to make up for that.
I’m no native englisher, but doesn’t “hanging” here imply “having been hanged” rather than, what I suspect was intended - “hanging out”?
yup. saying “we’ll get together and hang” doesn’t usually mean a meeting at the gallows.
American dialects often omit the “out” for the same meaning.