[lit-ideas] Re: Anonymity and revelation...
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:01:44 -0500
> [Original Message]
> From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 1/30/2006 10:49:41 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Anonymity and revelation...
>
> AA:
> > I'm really tired, didn't read this too well. The Man on the Clapham
Bus.
> > Silas Lapham? What does this mean?
>
> It means "the man in the street", "common sense", "what passes for
> intelligence", etc.
>
> According to Wikipedia:
> "The man on the Clapham omnibus is a term used in English Law to signify
an
> educated and intelligent but non-specialist person.
>
> The term derives from a quotation of a phrase of Lord Justice Bowen (who
was
> counsel in the Tichborne Case) in the case of McQuire v. Western Morning
> News [1903] 2 KB 100. Clapham is an unremarkable English neighbourhood in
> south London, said to consist of ordinary people. Omnibus means a public
> transport bus."
>
>
>
In fact, I had just started another reply to Professor Paul's TMOTCB. I
got as far as: Okay, I quickly looked up The Man on the Clapham Bus and
it's apparently another way of saying Joe Average in legalese. There's a
PDF file from the University of Michigan, I can't copy from it, but the
abstract might be an example of poor writing. In this case the writing is
poor not because it's not grammatical, but because it's so unnecessarily
abstruse.
http://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=umichlwps
I admit that most plumbers and electricians don't come close to even the
half baked efforts of professionals, but given that professionals have
seven years or more of higher education under their belts, as opposed to
only trade school, professionals might do better.
Anyway, thanks to Robert Paul for verbalizing the difference between
comparing to and comparing with. It actually popped out at me as I looked
at it after I sent the post, but he put it into words.
Really, really tired. See you tomorrow.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
> digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
Other related posts:
