https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1382964746866016260

  • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    such a weird collection of turns of phrase, it's breaking my non-native speaker brain... "calls for Chauvin should", "put under the jail", it sounds like I assigned a student to write a headline using the expression "call for" and this is what they came up with

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      It's not correct. Like, literally a typo. "To" should replace "should", then it makes a lot more sense. I mean, Robertson spoke incorrectly, he should have said "in" not "under the", but he's a very old man and that's a direct quote.

      • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        I think he's saying Chauvin should be buried under the jail (ie. executed). I've heard that expression before from older people.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah, it's like a double whammy too. Because the whole idea is you're putting the corpse in prison because even their remains don't deserve to be free.

            That being said, Pat probably just doesn't like Chauvin.

      • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, that's exactly what I thought as well, you should either use "says" instead of "calls for" or "to" instead of "should". The direct quote is just strange, but that other part was straight up just wrong.