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The best op piece today: “Why Mistranslation Matters”
In the New York Times (last page opinion section — it should have been more to the front) Mark Polizzotti tells a couple of stories that really startled me. Brace yourselves, because our knowledge about famous statements is wrong. For … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Truman, Hiroshima, Mark Polizzotti, mistranslations, Nikita Khrushchev, translations, William Tyndale
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So why are legal documents such lousy reads?
With a bravura quote from the Marx Brothers, I begin an interesting take from a legal genius on why we non-lawyers find it so impossible to read legal documents. Continue reading
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Tagged discovery documents, how lawyers drive clients crazy, Interpreting lawyers, Law and the bible, Lawyers, legal language, omnibus motions, Proprietary Leases, the Marx Brothers, the power of the word, Understanding lawsuits, William Tyndale
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