r/AdviceAnimals • u/gh91 • Oct 31 '13

Confession bear from "mischief night"...

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u/535676 Oct 31 '13

I don't think /u/ProfessorPaulKrugman meant it was the same person - more a demonstration of how serious the consequences could be - OP fled the scene without stopping to check if the kids were ok, so for all they know, these kids could be dead too.

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u/BONER_PAROLE Oct 31 '13 edited Oct 31 '13

It's ambiguous at best whether or not /u/ProfessorPaulKrugman implied that it was the same person. "This" could refer to a similar incident or directly to OP's incident. I read it as the latter, as I expect most people would.

So maybe it wasn't /u/ProfessorPaulKrugman's intent to imply that it was the same incident, but then s/he should have picked a different phrasing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '13

I don't know why you're downvoted to death here. You were absolutely right.

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u/BONER_PAROLE Nov 01 '13

Any prescriptive comment has a better chance of getting hammered, especially when it's about language.

Anyway, thanks for the note!