Courts on language/Gerichte über Sprache
am 09.08.2008 von http://transblawg.eu
Proponents of Proposition 8 in California, Eliminates the Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry, want it changed to Limit on Marriage. They think the verb eliminates is negative and not typical of titles of legislation in California.
Superior Court Judge Timothy M. Frawley said There is nothing inherently argumentative or prejudicial about transitive verbs, and the Court is not willing to fashion a rule that would require the Attorney General to engage in useless nominalization.
Advocates of same-sex marriage …
10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal
Aktenvermerk / Being gay is not natural. People always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.Legalizing gay marriage w…
Nominalization/Substantivierung
Transblawg / Wayne Schiess at Legalwriting.net thinks legal English should use more verbs. This example shows one problem translators from German into English have: Now spot the two nominalizations in this sentence: The defendant made a referral to E…
Reported speech / Indirekte Rede
Transblawg / There's a query on ProZ that I can't help mentioning. It's a quote from the judgment of a German court and the asker requests that it should be answered by native speakers of German. I think it's not always easy for native speakers of…
Interpreting errors continued/u.a. Dolmetschen
Transblawg / Continuing the topic of incorrect interpreting (see earlier entry), Roger Shuy takes up the topic at Language Log. A few years ago I encountered this problem in a case in which English transcripts of Spanish speakers in undercover tape recordings we…
German is the language of the courts/Gerichtssprache Deutsch
Transblawg / Bonn Blawg reports: I just finished drafting the claim before it was statute-barred. Since claimant is a foreign entity in an English-speaking country, the the defendant (and its Denglish lawyers) prefer to use English, I attached the exhibits in En…
Words banned in court/Verbotene Wörter im Gerichtssaal
Transblawg / An article of 16 June 2008 by Tresa Baldas in the National Law Journal, Courts Putting Hot-Button Words on Ice, reports that words such as rape and victim are being banned by judges because they prejudice defendants. A steadily increasing numbe…
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