@LittleIKnow
As I started my post……
“As one of the few……”
I know that I am not the only CR member with such an education.
I know others have advanced degrees. My classical education came well before my advanced degrees, back when I was going to my Junior High and High School years at the local Yeshiva (no longer exists) we took our core academics at a top nationally ranked local public high school 4 hours each day. My 6 Years of Latin were 5 days a week in grades 7-12 taught by an old fashioned Latin Master from Yale.
As for ‘usual spoken vernacular,’ this is the perpetual problem of connotation vs. denotation. After decades of practicing law, I constantly have to point out that if it is not in the 4 corners of the document/contract it doesn’t exist. Law school students, professors, authors and often losing side attorneys may argue concepts such as legislative intent; but what is set down in writing usually holds (until some appellate court decides to make new law for political or other reasons).