OT: I'm sorry, @Bit of hope , but this made me chuckle, but in good way, I hasten to add! I feel your pain. As a fellow non-Native English speaker, this is too relatable; your English being impeccable 99% of the time, but it's the 1% you get wrong that really bugs you!
OT: I'm sorry, @Bit of hope , but this made me chuckle, but in good way, I hasten to add! I feel your pain. As a fellow non-Native English speaker, this is too relatable; your English being impeccable 99% of the time, but it's the 1% you get wrong that really bugs you!
Oh, well! Carry on.
I think you misread my post a bit. I asked if you (or anyone else, for that matter) knew how LE/ME came to the conclusion at the time that Beth Doe was Serbo-Croatian? It seems so oddly specific.
Yes, it was the same, but cropped version of the link I used. Considering this was the early 80s, with its limited technology, it still seems odd to be able to pinpoint her so precisely geographical.
It kind of called to my attention how often there's a vehicle pulled over beside a highway like that and how seldom anybody pays any attention.
When I drove past the spot several years ago, it doesn't look as though you'd have to stop traffic. The shoulder is wide enough to let you pull over. There was a car pulled over a bit before the bridge with the flashers on and nobody in it--he came back out of the ditch as we were driving past and returned our wave. We assume he stopped to pee, but he could have been dumping a body
Even if somebody were dumping a body, and a cop were to stop, they could say, "I ran over something and stopped to check that my tires are okay," or something like that and the cop would most likely drive on.
I don't recall the guardrail there being terribly high. If you were in a taller vehicle, you might be able to push the suitcases out the passenger side without even leaving the vehicle.
