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I suppose for the same reason that law in English-speaking countries still uses so much Latin?

• hollerith 2y ago
  The Latin (and Old French) words don't require a complicated arrangement to type them on a keyboard.
  • Tor3 2y ago
    For what it's worth, writing Japanese on a normal keyboard is easy, even for me. Fast too. And my wife is super-fast. I have no knowledge of how this is done in Chinese, or Korean for that matter (not to mention other non-Latin languages like Arabic, Thai or Hebrew), but for Japanese it's easy. There are two main ways of doing it, some prefer one, some the other.
• pas 2y ago
  But that's the opposite of innovation? Basically, instead of describing things in detail drafters opt to use shortcuts, but that's how people end up getting fucked in court by some "technicality". Innovation would be to just put in the verbiage, precisely define terms, fuck tradition.