Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.

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    1 year ago

    The US and the UK have different figures of speech and idioms. People in the UK don’t usually sound like cowboys.

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      1 year ago

      I’d love to see an example of “I shot dead him”. I’m not trying to be defensive, I’d really enjoy seeing it. Dialects fascinate me.

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        1 year ago

        Well, it’s an expression that only comes up in the third person, not the first person. You’d see “Tim shot dead Eric”. I think if they’d say anything like that in the UK, it would just be “I shot him”.

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            Yeah it’s the wrong way round but I think most people can also infer some context from the part where it mentions the murder charge.