Fauxia wrote:Not sure people are going to understand what “SMG” means off the bat, even if they get the gist.
Re: this, my feeling is that even if people didn't know they could pretty easily infer that it's a gun of some sort.
I think the description would read better if it was “shot three people dead” instead of the current phrasing of those words.
Hmm, interesting. "Shot dead three people", or "shot three people dead"...
To me, the former sounds more natural in this context. In a news report, I'd say "three people were shot dead", but in recounting a story, I'd definitely go with "shot dead three people".
None of these approaches feels wrong to me though.
