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I thought he was charged with murder or something.

• VexXtreme 14y ago
  Yeah same here. It's obvious that this kind of headline could be interpreted as sensationalist, but perhaps it was just incidental. We'll never know.
• malkia 14y ago
  Yup. Felt the same way.
• detritus 14y ago
  no - it's abundantly not trying to be sensationalist. Life typically means just that - it's not some shorthand for a term of imprisonment.
  • kyrias 14y ago
    Not sure if sarcastic?
  • gngeal 14y ago
    "Life typically means just that - it's not some shorthand for a term of imprisonment." Can you show me an actual statistics on what percentage of "X faces life" in English texts relates to severe criminal charges, and what percentage means something "non-sensationalist"? Because as a non-native speaker, I've always seen it in the former context.
    • detritus 14y ago
      eh? It's all about context, isn't it? ‘Life after x’ never refers to a life sentence—neither I nor anyone will have a statistical reference to back them up on this assertion—it's just not needed. shrugs - ed well, i suppose 'faces life after quadruple homicide' would.
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    • trhtrsh 14y ago
      Where the heck would anyone find a corpus of text to study that phrase? Oh, https://www.google.com/search?q=faces+life+after https://www.google.com/search?q=faces+life+after (Incidentally, Google's de-duplication logic fails horribly on that query. 6 of the top 10 results are the same blogspam-copied story, and it's not even fresh news.)
  • diminoten 14y ago
    Haha, what do you mean 'no'? That I didn't think that?
    • detritus 14y ago
      sorry, i meant to 'reply' to VexXtreme - i figured you were simply being light hearted.
• csdreamer7 14y ago
  Same here. (Faces life in prison.)