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You mean libel. Slander is spoken, libel is written. The easy way to remember this distinction is to know that one of the most famous libel cases in history, n
by neerdowell 10y ago
You mean libel. Slander is spoken, libel is written.
The easy way to remember this distinction is to know that one of the most famous libel cases in history, nicknamed the "McLibel" case, concerned printed pamphlets.
- billsix 10y agoAnother way to remember is that "library" and "libel" both come from "liber", meaning "book" in Latin
- umanwizard 10y agoAs does "lb.", the abbreviation for pound.
- spiznnx 10y agoNo, "lb." comes from "libra" meaning scales or balance, not "liber". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)#Roman_libra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)#Roman_libra
- umanwizard 10y agoHm, I can't edit my comment anymore, but French wiktionary claims that French "livre" (meaning pound) comes from the Latin word for the measure that weighed about as much as a book. ("livre" also means "book" in French). I guess "lb." and French "livre" (meaning pound) aren't necessarily related. More likely: wiktionary could be full of shit, meaning I was wrong.
- kgwgk 10y agoYou have misunderstood the wiktionary entry: > Du latin lībra (« poids d’une livre ») tells you just that the meaning of the latin word is a measure of weight (a pound). There is no way that can be interpreted as "the weight of a book" (that would be « poids d’un livre »).
- umanwizard 10y agoOh shit! I read it as "un".
- shanemhansen 10y agoConfession: as a kid I thought it came from 16. Because there are 16oz in a pound.
- smrq 10y agoTrue or not, that's a decent mnemonic.