Today in Legal Writing our prof spent about 30 minutes discussing the importance of WORDS... my favorite subject! She demonstrated incidents where a single word in a statute can be ambiguous and thus interpreted any number of ways in order to help or hurt an argument. THIS is where my Classics background will help. I spent four years in college studying the minute variations and nuances of single words (particularly in Greek) and the huge effect that the varied meanings can have on a translation... this aspect of legal study is definitely familiar to me. [*This is why I have issues with the Bible... but that's another conversation for a different blog*]
In a fit of giddy excitement I tried to explain the above to my neighbor in class. I don't think he appreciated the connection...
Hopefully I can apply this skill to my Legal writing and analysis. That is the plan.
K
1 comment:
Oh my philologist :) I'm happy you are going to be able to flex your Classics muscles in such a way. That should be very rewarding for you.
[Your issues with the Bible and the nuances of Greek are seconded... Not that we haven't have that discussion before :P]
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