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27/03/2013 02:35:02
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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26/03/2013 15:18:31
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>>>>I understand your "play on words" but I personally find English (from the couple languages I know) the best for the purposes of describing events, feelings, emotions, legal documents, etc. Maybe it is because I communicate in English most of my life, raised children in English, and think in English.
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>>>I have to disagree. French is far better for legal documents...
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>>Hmm. Why do you say that ( never having read, with the possible exception of a speeding ticket, a french legal document myself :-})
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>>I'd assume any legal document would have to be couched in terms of the jurisdiction involved ?
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> http://www.legallanguage.com/legal-articles/language-of-diplomacy/
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>No way to 'misunderstand' a sentence in French.

While most of the terms in english legalese are just common words with special meaning; you spend half the time learning what they mean. Just look at this list, off the top of my head:

deed - is not something someone had done, it's a contract by which something changes ownership

title - is not something written above an article, on a book or given to a person for achievement; it's a proof of ownership

justice - is not an idea, it's a judge

suit - is not a garment, it's a legal process

motion - not an action in which something moves, but a request of one side in the process

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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