[PLUG-TALK] Fair Use, etc.

J.A. Henshaw jeff at jhenshaw.com
Wed Mar 27 23:18:17 UTC 2002


Wil Cooley wrote:

> Also Sprach Craighead, Scot D <craighead.scot at vectorscm.com> on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:16:14PM PST
> 
>>Wil spoke thusly:
>>
>>>You should have been less disingenuous and said "liberals" instead of
>>>"activists."
>>>
>>I do apologize if I gave anyone the impression that I am not a conservative.
>>That was not my intension.  I believe that the constitution was written
>>intensionally so that the lay person could understand it.  That gives it
>>it's power.  ("We, the people...") It takes a special kind of education to
>>read those same words and think that "is" doesn't really mean "is".
>>
> 
> You never have.  It also takes some special education to know
> that the verb "to coin" doesn't mean "to make coins," even with
> regard to money (sorry Jeff).
> 
> If you do believe that it was written intentionally so a lay
> person could interpret it, how do you feel about the education
> required to understand a document written in 200-year-old English?
> How about the inability of the average lay person to not understand
> a fair number of the words in the Constitution, particularly the
> afforementioned difference caused by 200 years of language mutation?
> 
> Wil
> 

Additionally,  lawyers use Latin intentionally to make it so 
the lay person CANNOT understand it.

There is no reason we should not expect lay persons to 
understand English.



-- 
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on what they 
will have for lunch.





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