Language Log: Passport pickup by pinyin
Yesterday I went to the Beijing Public Security Bureau (Gōng'ān jú 公安局) to renew my visa. While waiting in the main hall for my number to be called, I had ample time to walk around and familiarize...
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Christopher Shea, "No Safe Harbor From Judge Posner’s Linguistic Googling", Wall Street Journal 3/1/2012: From March 2006 to October 2006, an Illinois woman named Deanna Costello let her boyfriend...
View ArticleLanguage Log: An empirical path to plain legal meaning
Stephen Mouritsen, "Hard Cases and Hard Data: Assessing Corpus Linguistics as an Empirical Path to Plain Meaning", Columbia Science & Technology Law Review, 2/25/2012: The Plain Meaning Rule is...
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