‘Life or Death Confusion’
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Most people write with greater care than they speak, which is usually not grammatically polished. Lakoff missed that point in his article.
Properly written laws are grammatically correct and express the legislative will. When the word “shall” was used in the Briggs Initiative it was obviously intended to be mandatory.
LAURENCE E. HEIGER JR.
Lompoc
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