I don’t like those Google ads that come up when you’re searching for some specific book and lead you to ebay or somewhere like that, where they tell you they haven’t got it. But the following is amusing: it appeared when I was looking at the law section of the Times Online

bq. Legal Profession Sale
New & used Legal Profession Check out the deals now!
www.eBay.com

It did produce a lot of Buy It Now ads, mainly for books, but no sale of The Legal Profession as such.

The Language Guy is a new weblog by Mike Geis, who describes himself as a retired linguist. To judge from his profile, he may write something about law and language.

bq. I wrote “The Language of Television Advertising,” “The Language of Politics,” and “Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction.” I also wrote and consulted on linguistic issues arising in such legal domains as trademark law, deceptive advertising, and jury instructions in death penalty cases.

(via Language hat, who had it from Aldiboronti at Wordorigins, which is always worth looking at)

There is terminology of professions and occupations regulated in the EU at this address. The terms are also translated (between French, German and English). The list appears to be new. Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland are also included, but not all the EU states’ terms are there, in particular those of the new states.

Of course, regulated professions is a narrow category. I looked at Rechtsanwalt. I would have thought it was not translated, since a Rechtsanwalt is a Rechtsanwalt. But no, it is translated into French as avocat and into English as lawyer/barrister. Why do solicitors not get a look in? Surely everyone knows solicitors’ exams are harder than barristers’? (I’d better close the comments). And then there are advocates. And Notare in Germany. Well, it is apparently the duty of the country involved to report the professions. Perhaps that hasn’t been done yet in the UK.

(Via Handakte WebLAWg)