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Frankie Boyle

jeudi 6 avril 2017 à 02:00

British comedian Frankie Boyle skewers the troll. Example: "If the Queen ever has to shake Trump's hand, she will put on so many gloves she'll look like Mickey Mouse." I was laughing out loud all through it.

However, I had trouble understanding one sentence because of a confusing pronoun: "Admittedly, any expert psychologist will tell you that torture does work, but only if you first threaten them with bare electrical wires."

Who here are the people to be threatened? They could only be the victims — but that would seem to assert that torture works, and surely that wasn't what Boyle intended. Eventually I figured out that "them" was used confusingly as a singular pronoun, an ill-advised practice. Boyle should have written, "threaten per with bare electrical wires."