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

  • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    1 year 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
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year 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?

      • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year 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.