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Igel

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4. "Pursued driver" is, I think, what's needed to make it a lot better.
Sun Jun 12, 2022, 06:39 PM
Jun 2022

"Pursuit driver" makes it sound like the driver giving pursuit.

Paragraphs would certainly help.

As for this ... Huh?

The driver went [ drove? ] into the parking structure of a Target store on Sepulveda Boulevard when [ where? ] he was seen calmly walking away from the store.
The man was then seen running around the streets and reentering the parking structure.
He appeared to have gotten back into his vehicle and driven away.


As an aside, I find that many of my sophomores and juniors seriously don't understand grade-level words. Even worse, they assume they can just guess and their guess is as good as anybody else's interpretation. And if they do, they use the Urban Dictionary or whatever Google coughs up. And their spelling is hit or miss.

"Deep seeded." Heard an NPR expert say, "I can say this with the certainty of doubt" today. Aimed for "with certainty" and "without any doubt" and got "the certainty of doubt." The NPR host verbally nodded, "Right, you're so right." Now, I'd have said the same thing, but I'd have been dripping snark while the NPR host either was on the same level or didn't want to say, "What do you mean? That's nonsense."

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