The Rules of Golf in Plain English PDF

Bryan Garner (* 17. November 1958) ist ein US-amerikanischer Jurist, Grammatiker und Lexikograph. Er schreibt auch über Jurisprudenz (und gelegentlich über Golf). Er ist Autor von über 25 Büchern, von denen die bekanntesten Garner's Modern English Usage (4. Aufl. 2016) und Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012 – gemeinsam mit Richter Antonin Scalia) sind, sowie vier ungekürzte Bücher Ausgaben des Black's Law Dictionary. Er ist Distinguished Research Professor of Law an der Southern Methodist University. Von Zeit zu Zeit unterrichtet er auch an der University of Texas School of Law, der Texas A&M School of Law und der Texas Tech School of Law. 2009 wurde er bei einer Verleihung der Burton Awards in der Library of Congress zum Legal-Writing and Reference-Book Author of the Decade ernannt. Er hat viele weitere Auszeichnungen erhalten, darunter den Benjamin Franklin Book Award, den Scribes Book Award, den Bernie Siegan Award und einen Lifetime Achievement Award des Center for Plain Language. Seine Arbeit hat eine zentrale Rolle in unserem Verständnis von moderner Urteilsbildung, Advocacy, Grammatik, englischem Sprachgebrauch, juristischer Lexikographie und dem Common-Law-Präzedenzsystem gespielt. Seine Bücher werden häufig von amerikanischen Gerichten aller Ebenen zitiert, einschließlich des United States Supreme Court.

The Rules of Golf in Plain English pdf von Bryan Garner

"The cry for the simplification of the Rules of Golf is a stock-in-trade of the journalist during the winter months. Countless words on the subject have been poured out to an ever-tolerant public, but still the long-sought simplification does not come."—Henry Longhurst, 1937The hopes of renowned writer and golfer Henry Longhurst—and millions of golfers before and after him—have finally been realized. In The Rules of Golf in Plain English, Bryan A. Garner, American English language and usage expert, and Jeffrey S. Kuhn, volunteer USGA rules official, have translated the knotty Rules with the encouragement and permission of the United States Golf Association. The result is a modern, readable version that offers, for the first time, clear guidance to both amateurs and professionals.Based on a 338-word set of thirteen rules written in 1744, the official Rules have grown, over two and a half centuries, to 40,000 words. Numerous contributors and a complex revision process have rendered these Rules so opaque and stylistically inconsistent that a companion volume—the 600-page Decisions on the Rules of Golf—has been published to help golfers navigate them.Both lawyers and avid golfers, Kuhn and Garner recognized the difficulties that the language of the Rules of Golf created, especially in a sport that expects players to call penalties on themselves. By reworking the Rules line by line, word by word, they have produced an accessible resource that no golfer—from the duffer to the pro—should be without.