Espirales sobre Noruega

Hace una semana me mostraron una imagen tan espectacular que inmediatamente sospeché que era falsa:

Espiral observada sobre Noruega.

Pero la explicación real resulta mucho más interesante:

Nota: ahora soy un nuevo miembro del extraño movimiento obsesionado en expresar algo con sentido usando solo 140 caracteres 😀

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Los orígenes del dialecto judicial y cosas varias

Una interesante perspectiva “evolutiva” sobre el origen de la complejidad del dialecto utilizado (principalmente) por los abogados:

Why is legal language so hard to understand?

(a) A lawyer always tries to use clauses that
have already been interpreted by the courts
[as you noted].

(b) A court interprets a clause only when it is
brought to its attention through litigation.

(c) Litigation over the meaning of a clause
occurs only when there is some disagreement
over the meaning of a clause

(d) Disagreement over the meaning of a clause
is most likely to occur when the clause is
ambiguous or hard to understand.

Therefore, the system produces a kind of Darwinian
pressure: the legal language most likely to survive
is that which on its face is most ambiguous or
difficult to understand.

A continuación, debido a la falta de material adicional completo con la clásica lista de links: