Comes now the plaintiff
am 11.08.2005 von http://transblawg.eu‘Comes now the plaintiff’ is an American expression - perhaps that’s why I find it so weird. There was a discussion on avoiding Latinisms in The Illinois Trial …
Internet directories/Internet-Adressendatenbänke
Transblawg / I have just phoned Kelly in London, since they ignore my emails and I don’t want to get a ‘personal login’. Now they may understand that I don’t sell curtains or tables. The woman promised me that my address will be removed - …
Improve Your Legal Writing
Handakte WebLAWg / LegalWriting.net is a weblog that will help you make your legal writing “clear, correct, direct.” It’s written by Wayne Schiess, the Director of Legal Writing at the University of Texas School of Law and author of Better Legal Writi…
Germans pronouncing Hurrikan
Transblawg / It has been pointed out to me by Anon. of Frankfurt am Main that, as with ‘curry’, German newscasters have difficulty pronouncing ‘Hurrikan’ or ‘hurricane’. Some pronounce it in an acceptable English way, but other…
Spelling book aims for high sales
Transblawg / Lynne Truss’ publishers have now published Vivian Cook’s ‘Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary or why can’t anybody spell?’ (I pasted that. I can’t be bothered to misspell). Amazon.co.uk already has a five-star re…
Underneath Their Robes covers up/US Blawg verschwindet
Transblawg / Sadly, Underneath Their Robes has gone under cover (I’ve quoted it a couple of times and if I’d got round to tidying up my blogroll, it would have stayed). The New York Times persuaded the author to out himself: Soon after The New Yorke…
British English / American English Weblog
Transblawg / Separated by a common language - Observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK - looks like a very useful weblog. I suppose discussion of the differences between BE or BrE and AmE has exploded as a result of the Inte…
Trainee solicitor a crap job/Englisches Rechtsreferendariat kritisiert
Transblawg / Buch (in Oktober erscheinend) beschreibt Rechtsreferendariat (trainee solicitor) als sechstschlechtesten Job in England. The book ‘Crap Jobs’, edited by Dan Keiran, is to be published in October. ISBN: 0553816896. If it’s like his e…
Google erklärt googlen
MarkenBlog / Usage: ‘Google’ as noun referring to, well, us. Example: “I just love Google, they’re soooo cute and cuddly and adorable and awesome!” Our lawyers say: Good. Very, very good. There’s no question here that you̵…
Take your head out of the mud baby
Vertretbar Weblawg / Viel gescholten, für mich eines der besten U2-Alben: And I have no religion And I don’t know what’s what And I don’t know the limit The limit of what we got […] No particular place name No particular song I’ve been hid…
Indemnify and hold harmless / Schad- und klaglos halten
Transblawg / This topic arose in connection with a mailing-list discussion about schaden- und klaglos halten, which is probably intended to be schad- und klaglos halten and is not necessarily an Austriacism. The question arose (at least for me) whether you need…
Vioxx Status
Handakte WebLAWg / Vioxx is back in the news. Merck won one and lost one in New Jersey and is on trial in Illinois. In New Jersey, the jury condemned the pre- April 2002 label but approved the label issued that month. The verdict was under New Jersey’s consumer…
Books on legal English - general/ Bücher über die englische Rechtssprache - allgemein
Transblawg / I wrote a whole screen on how you should choose a book as carefully as you choose your toothpaste, but I suspect people want concrete advice. That follows in a later entry. Here's the general waffle: Books to learn legal English /Bücher zu…
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