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(Jul 7th, 2018, 02:05 AM)percussive maintenance Wrote:
(Jul 7th, 2018, 01:50 AM)Nightingale Wrote:
Quote:Long legal battles are fought on, die, and win, on single misspellings, simple grammar mistakes, and obvious typos. The most likely thing I see happening is either 1) An official Spanish langue translation (i.e. you can be tried in court under the Spanish translation) of every federal law will happen (and we know fuck ups will happen, along with legal battles over should the defendant be tried under English or Spanish [aka the defense will try to use which ever one benefits the defendant and the Government will want to use what ever benefits the Government]) and there will be legal battles over that or 2) Current unofficial translations (which you will not be tried under in the court of law) will be given out and only cause (more?) confusion/"confusion".

That looks like it would solve nothing... and only add to the fire xD

Riddle me something, though: How ARE non-English speakers currently tried in the US when arrested? I'd assume a translator is provided by the state to help them understand the situation better? That could work nicely.

Quote:The Falkland island issue is some what different because your country invaded an Island that is under control of the Queen, even as an American I can say you don't go pissing off the Queen. undefined

Whatever under the bridge.

I just brought it up because it involved a sudden change of language to an established community by an external force.

No idea about Rico but yes generally to my knowledge translators are used, I have no idea on the effectiveness over all (because you are already dealing with three languages, legalese {more formal English that is often defined by written law and case law), English, and Latin (e.g. [it self Latin] et al, amicus curiae, de facto, de jure, etc [again Latin]}).
Effectiveness I would imagine would depend on 1) Size of the community that speaks the language in the area (i.e. boarder states might have more qualified Legal translators then Bumfuck Iowa, which might have an issue finding some one who has a background in Spanish). 2) Size of the community in general (again Huston Texas vs Bumbfuck Iowa)
It is not so much an external force in the case of Rico but more of your "Uncle Sam who you have semi-distant relations with" then you moving next door to him.

As far as my comment on the Falkland war I was more being a smart ass

These days you are far more likely to find at least a couple of fluent (if not native) Spanish speakers in the US than you were on the past. Them wanting to work for the legal system is a completely unrelated issue, though... and one that I can see breaking a bit of havoc when it comes to implementing it.