Sentient Loom to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 天前TFW you think you got away with it for 137 years but then the cops come knockinimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1183arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1181arrow-down1imageTFW you think you got away with it for 137 years but then the cops come knockinSentient Loom to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 天前message-square19fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBlemboTheThird@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up31arrow-down1·5 天前Just to be pedantic, the “let alone” turn of phrase is meant to imply that the second thing has a higher standard. So in this case it should be corrected to “this wouldn’t hold up in a Victorian age court, let alone a modern one.”
minus-squareDragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·5 天前Victorian courts have a higher standard because they didn’t allow DNA evidence
Just to be pedantic, the “let alone” turn of phrase is meant to imply that the second thing has a higher standard. So in this case it should be corrected to “this wouldn’t hold up in a Victorian age court, let alone a modern one.”
Victorian courts have a higher standard because they didn’t allow DNA evidence