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Re:Jury Duty by coldtea on Friday December 04, 2015 @02:37AM (#10675139)
Isn't it second-hand for the parent though, which I think is what he means?
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Re:Jury Duty by jacobolus on Friday December 04, 2015 @03:15AM (#10675224)
The way he used the word “vicarious” is not idiomatically correct usage.

I don’t want to put words in his mouth, but I think he might have been trying to say that the author’s description was so vivid that he could vicariously experience the jury process through reading it.

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Re:Jury Duty by surrealize on Friday December 04, 2015 @03:08PM (#10678788)
In fengwick3's comment, "vicarious" modifies "account". Assuming "account" refers to the linked article, then it's first-hand, and not vicarious. fengwick3's (or your or my) experience of the judicial system through the linked article might be vicarious, but the article itself wasn't.

Sorry for the pedantry!

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