• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    7 months ago

    For you personally? Probably not much. For us as a society? Well, being able to read our laws and history in their original form is pretty important.

    • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      97 months ago

      Not really, they’ve been transcribed and the people who need to be able to read the originals can learn just like people learn Latin if they need it, not as a mandatory language in school.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        -47 months ago

        Transcriptions are easy to alter. Kids learn reading and writing, and language in general much faster than adults. You can spend an hour a day for a few months with a kid and they’ll have it down pat.

        • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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          27 months ago

          It’s easy to learn cursive and compare if you’re that paranoid about it (although being extremely good at reading cursive doesn’t guarantee you’ll be able to read all documents written in cursive), it doesn’t mean everyone needs to learn it.

    • @SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      57 months ago

      Since when did you have access to the original writing of some law? If you want to find out a law today, you go on a government website.