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Wes's avatar

Re your discussion about the attorney general being called “General” isn’t the surgeon general called “General”?

Also per the OED it looks like the term “general” for a military leader is an abbreviation of “captain general” from the French “capitaine général” which means that it was originally the adjective and not the noun.

John Bakker's avatar

It’s “coming down the pike.” Dan said “pipe.” Not shameful.

Joshua J. Freundel's avatar

Where did Richard Re mention this tension between viewing the EPC as a matter of groups or classifications? A bunch of searches have not turned up anything written.

Joseph Michael Levy's avatar

Will, you used the phrase “ex ante” in a conversation about Skrmetti, which is a funny coincidence because I once used that phrase in a conversation with Judge Sutton, leading to some light mockery about why on earth I would use that phrase in casual conversation.

William Baude's avatar

At UChicago this is introduced as basic vocabulary in the 1L year. Is this not true everywhere?? I feel even more disoriented than when people started getting upset about lawyers' use of the word "orthogonal" which I think is a great word and had been using in casual conversation since Fall 2000.

Charlie's avatar

On today’s episode Will mentioned a lengthy email he received about Skrmetti that among other things said that the NY Times article was dumb and littered with errors. If the author of that email is reading this, could they please share their insights with the blog? Thank you!