Hmmmm.... If I recall correctly, there was a certain red BE parked in
front of Buster's garage door - the closest one of all to the assembly
area. Perhaps we should examine the headlight rings on THAT car... I will
not say who it belonged to but the owner's initials are "Hal Faulkner"...
;-)
Hal - according to your definition - a "perpetrator" would, per force, be a
"criminal" as Buster noted so why use the term "perpetrator"? It looks to
me more like a term used by people who don't want to offend anyone with the
brutal truth. It is so terribly P.C....
Besides.... Anyone who steals stuff from one of our cars is a "excrement
venting orifice"...
Cheers!!
Jim
On Dec 4, 2007 6:36 PM, Hal Faulkner <hal@katemuir.com> wrote:
> Buster said, "the favored term is "suspects"."
>
> I have even heard a policeman on TV describing a criminal act for which no
> one had yet been arrested say that the "alleged suspects" escaped.
> However, there is a distinction between "suspect and perpetrator: the
> "suspect" is the person who you think committed a crime, the perpetrator
> is
> the person who actually committed the crime, identified or not. If you
> "suspect" that, say, a Frank C. obtained a chrome headlight ring in an
> extra-legal manner, he would be a "suspect." The person who actually took
> the chrome headlight ring (whether Frank or someone else) would, of
> course,
> be the perpetrator. Please note that this is a fictitious scenario used
> only to illustrate a point of grammar and that any similarities to persons
> or events that may have actually taken place is entirely coincidental.
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