Wilshire@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 6 months agoA teen said a deputy threatened him as he filmed his mom's arrest. A jury awarded him $185,000.apnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1597arrow-down11
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minus-squareSreudianFlip@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·6 months agoSherrif you say so, I guess… (For those wondering at the joke this far down the thread… it’s “corporeal punishment”–corporal is a rank.)
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_punishment It is correct. It’s used in the same sense, too, bodily punishment, and corporals were head of a “body” of soldiers.
Sherrif you say so, I guess…
(For those wondering at the joke this far down the thread… it’s “corporeal punishment”–corporal is a rank.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_punishment
It is correct. It’s used in the same sense, too, bodily punishment, and corporals were head of a “body” of soldiers.
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