Uttering is an action that is usually linked to insulting or attacking.
Proffer is a term whose etymology takes us to the Latin proferre , which can be translated as "declare or manifest" and is composed of two different parts: the prefix pro- , which means "forward" , and the verb ferre , which is synonymous with “produce” .
This verb refers to expressing or exposing sounds, words or phrases . For example: “When you finish swearing, I will explain to you why I acted this way towards you,” “After wailing for hours, the man got up and returned home,” “I am not going to utter rude words in front of others.” children" .
Utter as insulting or attacking
The notion is usually used when what is expressed are insults , attacks or rudeness . If a newspaper reports that “The president was booed after uttering racist attacks,” it will be signaling that a certain authority received public disapproval for expressing a racist attitude.
Uttering insults is perhaps the most common use given to the verb in question and very frequently in the media we read news where the protagonists have “verbally attacked” or threatened each other. Let's look at a case: in August 2015 , forward Diafra Sakho , who played for the English team West Ham , was arrested for insulting a person and even threatening him.
Another similar news item may indicate the following: “A man was arrested after making repeated threats to his ex-partner.” In this case, the information indicates that a person was deprived of his liberty for having threatened his romantic partner on several occasions.
As can be seen, utter is a term that can be used as a synonym for expressing, pronouncing, enunciating, emitting, saying, shouting and other words referring to the communication of something. The choice of one or another term depends on the characteristics of what was said, the context and other circumstances.
The idea of uttering is usually used in the judicial field.
The term in the judicial field
Uttering, on the other hand, can be a proposition or a provision of some kind: “The magistrate did not hear the claims when pronouncing a sentence through which he authorized mining exploitation” , “The judge decided not to prefer a measure of protection since "that he considered a statement on the matter unnecessary."
Currently, within the scope of law, expressions and terms that have remained in Latin and that use the aforementioned verb proferre are used. Examples of this are the following:
- «Contra Proferentem» , which can be translated as “against the declarator.”
- «Quo moda et quando iudex sententiam proferre debent praesentibus partibus vel una absente» . This statement attempts to make it clear that the judge may announce the sentence, in the manner and in the time, as long as both parties involved in the process are present or one is absent.