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Briana Boston, 42, was charged with threatening a health insurance company after repeating words linked to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

During a recorded call with Blue Cross Blue Shield about a denied claim, Boston said, "Delay, deny, depose, you people are next," echoing phrases engraved on bullet casings at Thompson’s murder scene.

Authorities allege she exploited the CEO’s homicide to make the threat.

Boston, a mother of three with no prior criminal record, was arrested and held on $100,000 bail amidst warnings of potential copycat incidents targeting healthcare executives.

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[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 75 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Suspected killer. Even the BBC is towing the line.

I’d argue that the word are unarguably the killer’s. After all, they were written on the bullet cases that were used to kill the guy.

Whether or not Luigi is the killer is still being decided by the courts. If they had said the words were Luigi’s, there would be an issue. But they didn’t say that; They said “CEO killer” instead, which simply attributes the words to whoever killed the dude.

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Even the BBC is ~~towing~~ toeing the line.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Holy crap i didn't even notice. I feel like swipe typing is getting worse or maybe I'm just getting worse at it then again e and w are right next to each other

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

It's definitely getting worse. SwiftKey used to be great at ~~precocious~~ predicting ~~word's~~ words.

~~Yep~~ Too many ~~exalted~~ examples here. I'm leaving them all in.

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] oo1@lemmings.world 2 points 4 days ago

'Eggcorn' is a linguistics term for a new word or phrase that is slightly different to an older one- substituting words that sound smilar- yet still makes sense and has a similar meaning to the older term, for example:

  • eggcorn, (acorn)
  • mute point (moot),
  • free rein (reign - I think reign is older version?),
  • towing the line (toe)

Sometimes the eggcorns make more sense to modern speakers than the older term and it may eventually usurp them entirely. I don't think many peple know what a 'moot' is anymore. If 'mute' makes more sense to more people it's likely to grow in popularity.

I don't know why linguists chose 'eggcorn' as the eponym; I'm sure I've never actually heard anyone say "eggcorn" to mean "acorn" - apart from me since I learnt about this phenomenon.

[–] witten@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Disgusting, I can't stand humanizing serial killers. UK doesn't even HAVE a for-profit healthcare system (yet), but they still stand in solidarity with the haves against the have-nots

[–] uis@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] disgrunty@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] witten@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

If it was by choice, then they wouldn't be a monarch. :D

[–] Primer81@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Those are the killer's words... whether Mangione is the killer is another story. not that I think this woman should be in jail either; it's absolutely ridiculous that she is. The reporting is fairly objective though as far as I can tell.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

That's a great point.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

Well they've been trying to privitize the NHC...