[PLUG-TALK] Fair Use, etc.

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Wed Mar 27 23:39:44 UTC 2002


Also Sprach J.A. Henshaw <jeff at jhenshaw.com> on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:18:17PM PST

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

Really?  And I was under the impression it was because most of our
legal system was based on Roman systems!  

So, if I might make some inferences based on what you say, the
authors of the constitution and founders of the US did not intend
for lay people to read and understand it because they used Latin?

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

No, but more than not often they can't.  Sometimes they can
understand it, but rarely can they write it.

Wil
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