The Rules of Golf in Plain English pdf

Bryan Garner (nato il 17 novembre 1958) è un avvocato, grammatico e lessicografo americano. Scrive anche di giurisprudenza (e occasionalmente di golf). È autore di oltre 25 libri, i più noti dei quali sono Garner's Modern English Usage (4a ed. 2016) e Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012 — coautore con il giudice Antonin Scalia), oltre a quattro integrali edizioni di Black's Law Dictionary. È Distinguished Research Professor of Law presso la Southern Methodist University. Di tanto in tanto insegna anche alla University of Texas School of Law, alla Texas A&M School of Law e alla Texas Tech School of Law. Nel 2009, è stato nominato autore del decennio di testi legali e libri di riferimento durante una cerimonia dei Burton Awards presso la Library of Congress. Ha ricevuto molti altri premi, tra cui il Benjamin Franklin Book Award, lo Scribes Book Award, il Bernie Siegan Award e un Lifetime Achievement Award dal Center for Plain Language. Il suo lavoro ha svolto un ruolo centrale nella nostra comprensione del giudizio moderno, dell'advocacy, della grammatica, dell'uso dell'inglese, della lessicografia legale e del sistema dei precedenti di common law. I suoi libri sono spesso citati dai tribunali americani di tutti i livelli, inclusa la Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti.

The Rules of Golf in Plain English pdf da 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.