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IN RE: CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION<\/strong>: A fun post about the linguistic-theory difficulties with a Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> episode<\/a>; but I was struck by this comment<\/a>: \u201cPerhaps more lawyers need to see this episode, for the Tamarian language is exactly what we sound like to laymen. We communicate with each other by shorthand references to complex legal doctrines that are, without a fairly full explanation of context, misleading when reduced to a short summary.\u201d<\/p>\n

ETA<\/strong>: I also liked some of the comments defending the episode, especially this one<\/a>, since Nietzsche\u2019s parable of language-formation falls close to my own view (though without the atheist\u2019s insistence that metaphorical meaning is arbitrary).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"