Ha ha very funny. Except this is grammatically correct and not ambiguous. It would work with your joke interpretation if it said "who shot dead, unarmed, black man"

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Quick tip - if the majority of people who read something find it ambiguous, it is. Plain and simple - especially for languages like English that don't have a central authority for setting language rules.

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

Quick tip - People with a poor grasp of un-simplified English are not the majority

[–] Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It's written by a British person in OG English. This phrase isn't unambiguous here and it took me a sec to figure out why people were confused. It's just a syntax difference but surely you can figure it out with context clues, just like I did with your interpretation.

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