Gullible linguistics experts/Amerikaner glaubt A.P.Herbert
am 21.04.2006 von Transblawg
Mark Liberman at Language Log has just discovered A.P.Herbert’s Uncommon Law - a book I have difficulty reading more than a page of because it is so ridiculous - and finds it a believable description of English law. This illustrates the repeated discovery that there is nothing more ridiculous than another country’s law:
…So far, so good. But the essay (or the judge’s opinion — it’s not clear to me whether Herbert is channeling the judge or merely quoting him) concludes that the stereotypes exempting women from reasonableness are to be endorsed.
“To return, however, as every judge must ultimately return, to the case which is before us — it has been urged for the appellant, and my own researches incline me to agree, that in all that mass of authorities which bears upon this branch of the law there is no single mention of a reasonable woman.”
There’s nothing new here, according to Wikipedia:
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