Porcupine_I on 12 October 2009
| Kantor said: Isn't "attempted manslaughter" contradictory? Attempted means you tried, but failed, and manslaughter means you accidentally killed somebody. You can't accidentally try to kill somebody. |
but you can fail to accidentally kill somebody.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
