Julian Assange gets 50 weeks in UK prison for skipping bail when he fled to the embassy

[thewayne]

In his attempt to flee Swedish police questioning, he broke bail, and yesterday he was thrown in the pokey for almost a year for those antics. Yet to be faced is potential extradition to the USA.

So now he will get a taste for what prison is really like.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/01/uk/julian-assange-court-gbr-intl/index.html

Comments

[conuly]

A taste for prison or a taste of prison? In my dialect, those terms aren't synonymous. Are they for you?

[thewayne]

Good question.  I read your comment a few hours ago and have been mulling over what I would say, and I'm still not absolutely certain how I stand.  I think I will say that I consider in this usage for them to be largely synonymous, but perhaps not in every usage.  But I also freely admit to not being an English major, and my usage is not always absolutely correct.  I will also defend my lack of absolute correctness by saying there are regional variances and English is an evolving and somewhat malleable language.  So maybe we're both correct. :-)

[conuly]

The usage of adult native speakers is always (barring momentary disfluencies or serious disabilities) absolutely correct by definition. That is the core assumption of linguistics.

[thewayne]

I'm watching a lot of UK TV right now and have, in the past, in what could be said to by my formative years, watched and listened to a lot of Brit TV.  Then add some Australian influences later in life.  Compound that by me being a fundamentally silly person, as if you couldn't gather that from reading my posts and interacting with me for some time here on DW, and there's no telling where my usages come from!

[silveradept]

Assange is likely to get got whichever way someone can charge him. The question is which country and which charge is going to be the one that sticks.

[thewayne]

It's going to be interesting to see how it plays out, I doubt it'll be good for him.