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by ntumlin 3269 days ago
On an unrelated point, I was surprised when I saw how many citations there were in the linked document. I guess it's a law thing but it seemed like every sentence had something to back it up, even stuff like the meaning of "sorry" in the first two sentences, which I thought could be assumed.
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Very typical of law review articles (academic publications in legal journals). Compare this famous humorous law review article, "The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule",

http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

(As something of a joke, it starts off by giving a citation for the meaning of the word "The".)