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[Ostap]

“Another bad experience was when I had to go to a hospitals ER because I said the word’s ‘murder/suicide’ to an online paper in economics class,” said one entry. “I got out of it because I stuck with the story that I was getting out of class and I just stupidly wrote that down. That is the reason I believe I am still able to purchase guns."
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Hello everyone. How do I udnerstand the meanings of the boldfaced parts?

 

[SoothingDave]

He told the healthcare professionals who were evaluating him that he just wrote "murder/suicide" so he could avoid doing the assignment. To "get out of class."

 

[probus]

"Get out of" has two different meanings here. He did not suffer any consequences for what he said (first occurrence) and he made up the story that he was avoiding attending class (second occurrence).

 

[Glizdka]

My eye won't stop twitching until I point out that the author has failed to use the apostrophe correctly, twice! Interestingly enough, the first time they didn't add an apostrophe when it was needed, and the second time they added it when it wasn't needed.

“Another bad experience was when I had to go to a hospitals hospital's ER because I said the word’s words ‘murder/suicide’ to an online paper in economics class,” said one entry.

 

[emsr2d2]

My eye won't stop twitching until I point out that the author has failed to use the apostrophe correctly, twice! Interestingly enough, the first time they didn't add an apostrophe when it was needed, and the second time they added it when it wasn't needed.

I'm relatively confident that someone writing a 589-page document justifying his planned mass murder of innocent people wasn't really interested in punctuation.

 

[Ostap]

It seems like the first "got out of" means "got away with" which is more commonly used in this meaning, right?

 

[probus]

@Ostap yes, I agree that's what he meant.

 

[Glizdka]

It seems like the first "got out of" means "got away with" which is more commonly used in this meaning, right?

Got out of could be replaced with got away with in that context, but it wouldn't necessarily mean the same thing.

He got out of trouble, as in he was freed from already effective consequences—having to deal with the questions and all the scrutiny.

Getting away with saying "murder/suicide" to an online paper in economics is slightly different. It's preferred if there are no consequences at all. Maybe it wasn't even reported to the authorities in the first place.