# Use of Latin in Posts (Note from What Exit)

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How about when you’re discussing fine points of grammar in extracts in a foreign language?

Like in this thread, where the examples and some of the answers were in French:

> [@French grammar question: use of articles in French version of the Constitution Act, 1867](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-grammar-question-use-of-articles-in-french-version-of-the-constitution-act-1867/932029/32):
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> Judges here will do their best to interpret the English and French versions as having a common meaning, but if there is a clear difference between them, then the rule of « common ground » usually applies: the common content of the two versions is the preferred interpretation, and if one version has a broader scope than the other, the broader part is ignored.

Should we have been translating each phrase or passage from French?

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