Glossmen

The traditional solution has been to rely on bilingual legal dictionaries, harmonized glossaries (e.g., the EU’s IATE database), or ad hoc expert testimony. Yet each of these tools suffers from a common flaw: they treat meaning as static, pre-existing, and discoverable rather than negotiated.

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