• acargitz@lemmy.caOP
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    8 months ago

    So is theft and murder and inheritance. We use legal terms in regular parlance all the time.

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      8 months ago

      Ok, and? Regular parlance can be about legal implications too, I’ve never heard the words “free speech” used in a context with no connection to their legal meaning. Do you have a counter example?

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        I’ve never heard the words “free speech” used in a context with no connection to their legal meaning. Do you have a counter example?

        Yes. The very article in this post.