Comment by retrac
3 years ago
> Of course the official language is the only one that is "legal"
If only! Here in Canada there are two official languages. All laws are drafted, and enacted, in both English and French. Both versions are equally valid, equally binding. And, sometimes, they don't say the same thing.
Catholic Canon Law is drafted and coded in Latin, which is supposedly the only official and binding version. However, this is translated into hundreds of vernaculars! People often read it in their native language for convenience, even lawyers, but this can be fraught with peril.
Yeah that's common in a number of other countries as well. I should have probably said "the official languages are the only ones that are legal" instead. In which case a tool like this could be useful for helping maintain that equivalence.