This is a fascinating story about how the crowd-sourced website Urban Dictionary (on which I myself have two published entries) has come to be used in courts of law. While it seems like it may have a useful role in contributing to the understanding of particular cases, I can understand the concern about putting too much faith in this resource when determining the outcome court cases. Absent an increase in speed for additions to actual dictionaries, though, it is hard to see this role going away anytime soon for Urban Dictionary.
"For the Word on the Street, Courts Call Up an Online Witness" by Leslie Kaufman
Published in the New York Times, May 20, 2013
Eric
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