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Re:Supreme Court Strikes Down Part of Sarbanes-Oxley by kgrin on Monday June 28, 2010 @12:40PM (#1468461)
That's because it's not really meant to be "English"; think of it as a DSL for the law.
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Re:Supreme Court Strikes Down Part of Sarbanes-Oxley by jesselamb on Monday June 28, 2010 @01:27PM (#1468644)
I have the hardest time conveying to some clients that legal documents are more like code than prose. I'll try the analogy of a DSL with my dev clients. Thanks.
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Re:Supreme Court Strikes Down Part of Sarbanes-Oxley by daeken on Monday June 28, 2010 @03:04PM (#1469023)
The analogy of a DSL isn't really an analogy -- it is a DSL. Legalese is a subset of English gramatically speaking, but the entire goal is to minimize ambiguity as much as possible. It really is a DSL.
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