12 janvier 2016
Toma Tasovac, « Legacy Dictionaries Reloaded: Why Should We Bother? », DigiLex, ID : 10670/1.u6cinp
The closest I've ever come to glimpsing hell was several years ago, reading an article in the New York Times, entitled “Justices Turning More Frequently to Dictionary, and Not Just for Big Words.” The article cited the example of a certain Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. who had apparently parsed the meaning of a federal law by consulting the usual legal precedents (X vs Y) — and no less than five dictionaries. One of the words he looked up was “of”. He discovered, lo and behold, that its ...