Editing Mutatis mutandis (section)

==English==
''Mutatis mutandis'' was first [[loanword|borrowed]] into [[English language|English]] in the 16th century, but continues to be [[italics|italicized]] as a foreign phrase.<ref name=oed/> Although many similar [[adverbial phrase]]s are treated as part of the sentence, ''mutatis mutandis'' is usually set apart by [[comma]]s or in some other fashion. The nearest English equivalent to an ablative absolute is the [[nominative absolute]], so that a literal translation will either use the [[nominative case]] ("things changed which are to be changed") or a [[prepositional phrase|preposition]] ("with the things to be changed having been changed"). More often, the idea is expressed more tersely ("with the necessary changes") or using [[subordinating conjunctions]] and a [[dependent clause]] ("once the necessary adjustments are made").

The phrase has a technical meaning in [[mathematics]] where it is sometimes used to signal that a proof can be more generally applied to other certain cases after making some, presumably obvious, changes. It serves a similar purpose to the more common phrase, "[[without loss of generality]]"<ref>{{cite book
|title=	An Accompaniment to Higher Mathematics
|first=	George R. 
|last=Exner
|publisher=	Springer Science & Business Media 
|year=2012
|isbn= 9781461239987
|page=61
}}</ref> (WLOG).

The [[legal Latin|legal use]] of the term is somewhat specialized. As glossed by [[Shira Scheindlin]], judge for the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York|Southern District]] of [[Courts of New York|New York]], for a 1998 case: "This Latin phrase simply means that the necessary changes in details, such as names and places, will be made but everything else will remain the same."<ref>{{Cite court |litigants = In re McMahon |vol = 235 |reporter = B.R. |opinion = 527 |pinpoint = 536, footnote 7 |court = S.D.N.Y. |date = 30 Nov 1998 |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1552575106454200922&q=235+B.R.+527&hl=en&as_sdt=2,44}}</ref> In the wake of the [[Plain English|Plain English movements]], some countries attempted to replace their law codes' [[legal Latin]] with English equivalents.

===Examples===
* "I believe the soul in Paradise must enjoy something nearer to a perpetual vigorous adulthood than to any other state we know. At least that is my hope. Not that Paradise could disappoint, but I believe Boughton is right to enjoy the imagination of heaven as the best pleasure of this world. I don't see how he can be entirely wrong, approaching it that way. I certainly don't mind the thought of your mother finding me a strong young man. There is neither male nor female, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but, ''mutatis mutandis'', it would be a fine thing. That ''mutandis''! Such a burden on one word!"—[[Marilynne Robinson]], ''[[Gilead (novel)|Gilead]]''.
*"To illustrate the point with trivial stereotypical examples from British society: just as male heterosexuals are free to enjoy themselves playing rugby, drinking beer and talking about girls with their mates, so male homosexuals are to be free to enjoy themselves going to Kylie concerts, drinking exotically coloured cocktails and talking about boys with their straight female mates. ''Mutatis mutandis''—and in many cases the adaptations would obviously be great—the same must apply to other societies. In other words, [[gay men]] are to be as free as their straight equivalents in the society concerned to live their lives in the way that is natural to them as gay men, without the fear of persecution."—[[Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry|Lord Rodger of Earlsferry]], ''[[HJ and HT v Home Secretary]]'', [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom|British Supreme Court]], 2010