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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8891895" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Yeah, no. If I didn't want to be anonymous, I wouldn't post anonymously.I always write that on the internet, no one knows you're a dog. But if you keep posting that you're a good boy and deserve some kibble, people can figure it out pretty quickly - and without you having to tell them, too!Anyway, as you know, most of the people here wouldn't know the fine distinctions regarding legal professionals that would matter.* Some time ago, on a different forum, there was a poster who was wrong (egregiously so) about a topic in the law- it was clear that not only was he unfamiliar with that area of the law, further, he was hopelessly clueless about how the law works in practice. After a while, he revealed (in the whole, "Do you know who you're talking to?" manner that was ... unfortunate) who he was. And he happened to be a law professor who I respected immensely- the type of person that writes books and treatises that are used in law schools across the nation. Unfortunately, he made the mistake of trying to be authoritative about an area of the law he didn't understand, as well as not understanding the difference between the academic understanding of law and how law works in practice.**To be honest, as amusing as it was to be lectured on American law by a Canadian practitioner, why bother? This is supposed to be fun, right?**"Pick up a copy of any law review that you see, . . . and the first article is likely to be . . . the influence of Immanuel Kant on evidentiary approaches in 18th-century Bulgaria, or something, which I’m sure was of great interest to the academic that wrote it, but isn’t of much help to the bar."  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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