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court hearings.
What keeps the pomegranate
story from sounding altogether
like urban legend, or over-exuber-
ant rights advocacy, is that linguis-
tically it is credible. A grenade
looks, of course, like a pomegran-
ate with its skin removed. In
French, the word for “pomegran-
ate” is grenade, pronounced gruh-
NAHD and derived from old
French for “apple with seeds.”
According to the Canadian Oxford
Dictionary, English “grenade”
comes from French grenade and
the Spanish granada, which also
means “pomegranate.”
So even if the asylum story has
fictive elements, like all good fic-
tion it tells the higher truth. Like
the world’s many species of flora
and fauna, our languages have
always seemed to me to be a won-
derful gift, each one a new way of
looking at shared experience — an
effulgence of new species that
sprang from the Flood. But pro-
fessionally I’m beginning to see
what Babel has wrought. My per-
sonal experience tells me that the
greater problem — the Babel con-
undrum in law—is broader,
affecting all legal translation, in
and out of court.
When he isn’t writing books
and journalism, Jeffrey Miller
teaches law and literature at the
University of Western Ontario
and works as a freelance translator, French-English.
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