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Re:What's Happening to Reading? by allturtles on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @12:33PM (#44584212)
You can figure out from later context that it's some kind of legal institution with an associated court. The students were also allowed to look things up: "Facilitators also provided subjects with access to online resources and dictionaries and told them that they could also use their own cell phones as a resource" [0]

[0]: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/922346

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Re:What's Happening to Reading? by Zedseayou on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @03:30PM (#44585947)
Unfortunately, from the study, most of the subjects had no idea there was anything to do with a court or lawyers by the end of the passages at all.
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Re:What's Happening to Reading? by zapw on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @01:07PM (#44584584)
Yes, agreed completely. You can get a lot (but not everything) from context. The text will be clearer if you look up unfamiliar terms (which they were allowed to do). But if you gloss over Lincoln's Inn Hall as "obviously some kind of inn", you won't have a full understanding of what follows.
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