July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
4h 44m
English
Two peoples separated by a common language.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
This Churchill quote applies not only to Americans and Brits but also to engineers and contracts professionals.
There is a separate language used by engineers and scientists when speaking to each other. Words mean different things. Technical people write for each other. They use numbers, diagrams and abstract terms. Grammar and principles of law are as foreign to them as, well, the language of commerce.
The contracts professional has the unenviable task of translating user need and technical specifications into enforceable commercial language.
Engineers and end users often do not realize that suppliers use their own language and a translation is needed ...
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