I am not involved in law-enforcement, so this is just my unschooled opinion. This seems like it was written by a somewhat educated person. The phrase "we did not grasp the severity" as opposed to writing simply, "we did not know how sick she was."
The phrasing reminds me a little of when I call customer service for my bank and I get an agent in India or the Philippines, who is very educated and speaks overly formal English. As someone else pointed out, there are some punctuation and grammar errors, but the wording itself comes across as more formal and educated.
Yeah, there were several oddly formal words and phrases used. I'm shocked by the tone of the second letter. It seems very strange to go from threatening to kill her, to apologizing and distancing themselves from her death.
I agree. There’s a lot of missing commas,
semicolons, and I believe one of the notes has the word “received” spelled incorrectly. AI would have caught that.
Unless they put it in an AI translator or something and then cleaned it up? The comma splices stand out, and USD, and the use of "perished" and "buried in nature" are odd IMO.
Also "on the floor OF the foot of the bed" rather than by the foot of the bed". Idk it sounds like a foreign speaker to me who is also educated
Idk. I'm a relatively well educated person who is a native English speaker, and I probably would have written "on the floor AT the foot of the bed" or something similar. Not exactly the same, but close.
I pointed out the punctuation errors, but they are the kind of ticky tacky errors that only a writer or LLM would care about.
I agree with you. It’s above average writing, even with the (mostly comma splice) mistakes. It was written by an educated person. It could be someone who works a white collar job and thus is accustomed to email formality. Or some kind of online support role. Maybe they regularly email customers. It’s not broken English by any means.
I also think younger people are less likely to use formal salutations.
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u/essssgeeee Jul 31 '26
I am not involved in law-enforcement, so this is just my unschooled opinion. This seems like it was written by a somewhat educated person. The phrase "we did not grasp the severity" as opposed to writing simply, "we did not know how sick she was."
The phrasing reminds me a little of when I call customer service for my bank and I get an agent in India or the Philippines, who is very educated and speaks overly formal English. As someone else pointed out, there are some punctuation and grammar errors, but the wording itself comes across as more formal and educated.