Lawyer Lingo
What a lawyer means by "fact", "conclusion" and "opinion" (via Language Log)
Posted by Toni Urquhart
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What a lawyer means by "fact", "conclusion" and "opinion" (via Language Log)
Posted by Toni Urquhart
Trials are conducted under a strict set of conversational rules that are well-known to attorneys and judges but can turn out to be a confusing mire of potential tricks for even that mythical reasonable person that many of our laws talk about. (via Language Log)
Three illustrative blog posts on (potential) semantic artistry/trickery in the courtroom:
1. Inferences in Perjury Cases
2. More Prosecutorial Trick Questions
3. Memory in the Courtroom
Posted by Toni Urquhart
Remember back when...
In November 1906, a modest little book crept onto the publishing scene with a mouthful of a title. The Manual of Style: Being a Compilation of the Typographical Rules in Force at the University of Chicago Press, to Which Are Appended Specimens of Types in Use grew out of a style sheet kept in the press's composing room. (link)
Now, 100 years later, an online version.
Posted by Toni Urquhart
Most of us probably see, in print, names of people or places that we don't know how to pronounce. VOA has a pronunciation guide. You can see a short list of names recently in the news here, or a longer list here. VOA provides a phonetic spelling which is very good and also you can hear the name pronounced by clicking on the small speaker icon. (I was not able to get the sound files to play in Windows Media Player but they played fine in Real Audio, which you can download from here.)
Posted by Jon Lutz
