Henry (henry999@eircom.net) Mon, 20 Feb 2006 07:32:16 +0200

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Some interesting semantics going on here. When I first saw the headline, I thought 'What?!?' I mean, a subpoena is a court order, signed by a judge, commanding you to appear in court and/or produce certain evidence. How can Google just 'reject' such an order? (They can't.) What they can do -- and, apparently, what they are doing -- is _appeal_ against the order. >> Google also said in a filing in U.S. District Court for the Northern >> District of California This is perhaps just sloppiness on the part of the Reuters reporter and laxity in his sub-editor(s). But then, in the remainder of the article, this fast-and-loose use of terminology continues. Some examples: > the government demand > compel Google to hand over > a bid by the Justice Department > opposing the U.S. government request > complied with the Justice Department demand > the request for ... data > the U.S. government's request > the Justice Department request > fighting the U.S. government request > the Justice Department motion to compel Google I suppose that 'demand' and 'compel' are connotatively similar, as perhaps are 'bid', 'request' and 'motion'. The last time I checked, however, 'request' and 'demand' meant rather different things. These terms can't be mixed up, higgledy-piggledy, just to avoid repetition -- like a student with a thesaurus. Cheers, Henry

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