A six-year-old girl was drowned in a water tank and her head was smashed with a stone to hide her identity after a failed rape bid, police said on Monday.
Don’t worry, someone made a whole page about bid. It’s actually kind of crazy how in-depth it goes, so search for [Subject-Verb], I think that’s the relevant bit.
… Also, did you know you can highlight text and paste in a link and it formats everything for you??? Bless.
It wasn’t a failed rape bid. It was a failed rape attempt. There wasn’t an auction like I was thinking based on what I read in the title.
Just non native English speaking translation. A bid can meet an attempt, like a bid for re election.
One of the meanings of ‘bid’ is to attempt to achieve something
e.g. “In a bid to escape, he jumped down the waterfall”
Doesn’t mean money is involved. But I agree it’s a poor choice of phrase for this headline.
And either way, very bad news =(
Yeah I’m not sure what “rape bid” is even supposed to mean, in any context. Doesn’t “bid” imply something that can be accepted?
Don’t worry, someone made a whole page about bid. It’s actually kind of crazy how in-depth it goes, so search for [Subject-Verb], I think that’s the relevant bit.
… Also, did you know you can highlight text and paste in a link and it formats everything for you??? Bless.
I think it’s more of a translation issue.