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

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

  • Polar@lemmy.ca
    38·
    1 year ago

    In school you learn to keep titles short. You added a lot of filler words that can ruin the headline on apps that cut them off, or printed media.

    Shot dead is correct.

    • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.info
      81·
      1 year ago

      “shot dead” is a phrasel verb, therefore it can (I would argue in this particular context it should) be split:

      shot (whom?) dead.

      I shot him dead

      He shot his wife dead

      Cop shot unarmed black man dead (including press-specific omitting of articles because English is stupid)

    • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
      62·
      1 year ago

      And yet, we wouldn’t be having this discussion if the wording was actually unambiguous.

      I removed one word and added two. That’s not “a lot of filler words”.