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Thanks. I don't speak the same English that is found within those legal documents.
by wheaties 16y ago
Thanks. I don't speak the same English that is found within those legal documents.
- kgrin 16y agoThat's because it's not really meant to be "English"; think of it as a DSL for the law.
- jesselamb 16y agoI have the hardest time conveying to some clients that legal documents are more like code than prose. I'll try the analogy of a DSL with my dev clients. Thanks.
- daeken 16y agoThe analogy of a DSL isn't really an analogy -- it is a DSL. Legalese is a subset of English gramatically speaking, but the entire goal is to minimize ambiguity as much as possible. It really is a DSL.
- protomyth 16y agoits really more of a programming language than English these days