For the Word on the Street, Courts Call Up an Online Witness
Slang has always been a challenge for the courts in cases that involve
vulgar or insulting language. Conventional dictionaries lag the spoken
word by design. That has lawyers and judges turning to a more fluid
source of definitions: Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced collection of
slang words on the Internet.
The online site, created by a college freshman in 1999, has found itself
in the thick of cases involving everything from sexual harassment to
armed robbery to requests for personalized license plates, as courts
look to discern meaning and intent in the modern lexicon.
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