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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Second time I'm reading "indorsement" from these morons, are they all just illiterate or is there some deeper idiocy to it?

[–] SpaceNoodle 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe they're all copying the same text they bought from the same huckster.

[–] solidgrue 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's from Latin in- (meaning "in" or "on") and dorsum (meaning "back"). Indorse comes to English through medieval Latin, and changed forms in the 15th century to endorse, around the time the roots of our modern court system took roots in Florence during the Inquisition.

The Florentine republic relied heavily on maritime trade, and so the court system was generally modeled around adjudication of Maritime law. Using the older Latin form lets creditors and courts know that the Sovereign is asserting Commerce law, the Law of the Land.

Am I making this up? Maybe.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Had me in the first half. Not gunna lie

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think that's the part they made up

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That reminds me of that monk joke......

A new monk joins an abbey and dedicates his life to copying ancient books by hand.

After the first day though, he reports to the head priest. He's concerned that all the monks have been copying copies made from still more copies.

"If someone made a mistake," he points out. "It would be impossible to detect. Even worse, the error would continue to be made."

A bit startled, the priest decides he better check their latest effort against the original which is kept in a vault beneath the abbey. A place only he has access to.

Well two days, then three days pass without the priest resurfacing. Finally, the new monk decides to see if the guy is alright. When he gets down there though, he discovers the priest hunched over both a copy and the original text. He is sobbing and by the looks of it has been sobbing for quite some time.

"Father?" the monk whispers.

"Oh my goodness," the priest wails. "The word is 'celebrate.' "

[–] SpaceNoodle 3 points 1 month ago

That's hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's the old timey spelling of "endorse", but really only for the definition of signing a legal document, like "endorse a check" is the same as "indorse a check",.which is already a pretty ancient thing to say.

So maybe they found it in some old law dictionary or archaic rule somewhere?

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 1 month ago

some old law dictionary

They treat Black's Law Dictionary like it was the word from on high.

[–] butwhyishischinabook 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No that's actually correct in a legal context like this. I mean what they're trying to do is nonsense obviously, but an indorsement, as defined in UCC s. 3-204(a) for example, means "means a signature, other than that of a signer as maker, drawer, or acceptor, that alone or accompanied by other words is made on an instrument for the purpose of (i) negotiating the instrument, (ii) restricting payment of the instrument, or (iii) incurring indorser's liability on the instrument, but regardless of the intent of the signer, a signature and its accompanying words is an indorsement unless the accompanying words, terms of the instrument, place of the signature, or other circumstances unambiguously indicate that the signature was made for a purpose other than indorsement. For the purpose of determining whether a signature is made on an instrument, a paper affixed to the instrument is a part of the instrument."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

My understanding is that there is special magic in spelling the word in this manner

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Moorish sovcit branch, who are black, have some weird lingo. I don't know why but they say other things too, like sun in place of sun. I think it has roots in Rastafarian culture looking online but I honestly don't know more.

[–] vaquedoso 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I also say sun in place of sun

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] meco03211 5 points 1 month ago

Well that's preposterous. I only say son in place of son.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I was honestly coming to ask the same question

[–] FlyingSquid 14 points 1 month ago

Actually, I think there's only one mistake here. It's just a really big one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Lowercase 'u' in full. That means something completely different. They will be signed up for more marketing mail now. Shucks.

[–] NOPper 13 points 1 month ago

I like your funny words magic man.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Word is indeed bond, yo.

What do you think is on all of the other pages?

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably a lot more pound signs instead of actual information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's only being consistentl with the rest.