At Language Log, Arnold Zwicky discusses the recent changes to instructions for California jurors. An article by David Kravets of 25 August goes into some detail. Peter Tiersma was involved – see his website for more materials on language and law.

bq. OLD: “A witness who is willfully false in one material aspect of his or her testimony is to be distrusted in others. You may reject the whole testimony of a witness who willfully has testified falsely as to a material point, unless, from all the evidence, you believe the probability of truth favors his or her testimony in other particulars.”

bq. NEW: “If you decide that a witness deliberately lied about something important, you should consider not believing anything that witness says. Or, if you think the witness lied about some things, but told the truth about others, you may simply accept the part that you think is true and ignore the rest.”

Now I think they had picked that one up before the O.J.Simpson criminal trial

Die Flüsterer – The Whisperers – La voix des autres
Ein Film von David Bernet und Christian Beetz
80/57/45/30 Min. WDR/RB/arte, TSR, ETV, RTV, LRT, YLE. Gefördert von der Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Nordmedia GmbH und MEDIA 2005. Unterstützt durch AICC.

ÖFFENTLICHE PREMIERE: DIE FLÜSTERER
KÖLN: Sonntag, 28.08.2005 12.00 UHR http://www.koelner-filmhaus.de/
BERLIN: Montag, 29.08.2005 20.00 Uhr http://www.hackesche-hoefe.org/

Erstausstrahlung auf WDR: Freitag, 2. September 2005, 23.30 Uhr
Sendetermin auf ARTE: Samstag, 22. Oktober 2005, 17.50 Uhr

Früher erwähnte akademische Bücher erschienen. Es sind drei Bände: Recht Verstehen, Recht Verhandeln, und Recht Vermitteln.

bq. Auf Anfrage stellen wir Ihnen gerne die Inhalts- und Autorenverzeichnisse sowie die Einleitungen der drei Bände als PDF-Datei zur Verfügung.

Sie sehen interessant aus, aber da ich nicht weiß, wann ich dazu komme, sie zu lesen, wird ein Besuch in der Uni-Bibliothek Erlangen vielleicht wieder fällig.

Danke an Liseuse für die Erinnerung.

Recht Verstehen – Recht Verhandeln – Recht Vermitteln

The Fürth Sparkasse is a blot on the landscape with its multi-storey building sticking out like a sore thumb. On top of this it has now placed a webcam. If that link doesn’t work, you go to the Sparkasse site, click on the tab ‘Ihre Sparkasse’, and at the bottom of the left list is the webcam.

I must say Fürth looks a lot better at ground level (it has over 2000 listed buildings), although one advantage of this view is that it does not show the Sparkasse itself. The whole centre of the picture is an area of inner courtyards and back buildings, all very interesting if you manage to get into it. The Schwabacher Straße – pedestrian zone – runs from the bottom left (square flat-roofed building at the bottom left is Woolworths) and I am somewhere down there.

In the mid-distance is a green area – Stadpark and flood plain – and the trees mark the River Pegnitz coming from Nuremberg (the Rednitz and Regnitz cannot be seen). Towers: left St. Martin, then the Rathaus, then right Unsere Liebe Frau. A largish low dome in the mid-right is the theatre.

I have been using TimeSlice for Windows for some years to track time (it exists for Mac too).

Michael at Translate This! recommends Time Stamp (donationware).

There are many other programs out there.

Is anyone in Cologne prepared to use public transport and pretend they don’t speak any German?
Ei dont belief sis. Guide:

Begrüßung, Vorstellung, Verabschiedung

|Guten Morgen |Good morning |Gutt morning|
|Guten Tag |Good afternoon| Gutt afternun|
|Guten Abend |Good evening |Gutt iwening|
|Gute Nacht |Good night |Gutt neit|
|Hallo! |Hello! |Hello|
|Mein Name ist |My name is … |Mai näim is …|
|Wie geht es Ihnen? |How are you? |Hau ahr ju?|
|Danke, gut. Und Ihnen? |Fine, thanks. And you? |Fein, sänks. Änd ju?|
|Auf Wiedersehen. |Goodbye. |God bai.|
|Bis morgen! |See you tomorrow. |Sie ju tomorro!|
|Bis später! |See you later! |Sie ju läiter!|
|Viel Vergnügen. |Enjoy yourself. |Inschoi jurself.|

This is a guide for the World Youth Day that has now been put on the Internet because people were interested (25 short pages in PDF).

Via Andere Ansicht