Re: THEORY: Expanding in translation?
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 13, 2008, 15:30 |
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> Much the same is true here; police statements and court records are
> taken verbatim. However, it would not be accessible for the officer
> taking the statement to preface the witness's words with "The witness
> was all like". ;)
I remember that one of John Mortimer's Rumpole mysteries turned on
a written statement taken by the police from a South London gang
member being in suspiciously acrolectical English.
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Jim Henry
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