Babel wrote:devilcake wrote:Babel wrote:
Only linguistics I have now is the small part of law that is linguistics by comparing different words to each other.
My favorite is the legal differences in the words best efforts, reasonable care and due diligence.
Also when we have a longer discussion on whether a shrew is "legally" a mouse or not
wording and law is very interestin
also very fascinating subject is european law from a translation perspective
It's fucked up sometimes too. We had a fun facts professor one of the first semesters and he spend a lot of time going through wrong punctuation in some laws that had cost states millions.
I never got EU law translations honestly. They all are weighted equally at the courts in theory, but I don't understand how that works in real life. Some of it is of course mitigated by making descriptions and definitions in the early articles, but still
help thats wild