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[mark / negativland <markhosler AT charter.net>]

At 12:45 PM +0100 9/20/03, David Berry wrote:
> I think this is an excellent point!
>
> David
>
> On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 12:39 PM, Don Joyce wrote:
>
> > There's no getting around the fact that the lawyers' first priority 
> > in writing law is courtroom convenience, not necessarily relating 
> > to the less than convenient way things actually work outside the 
> > courtroom.


Maybe all the lawyers on this list are feeling  like we're ganging up 
on them? I hope not.

From a fuzzy emotional sort of perspective, I agree with Don's 
previuos comments about law and legalese. But...let me good cop to 
Dons bad cop...

......while I do think legalese can often be made more human 
readable, it also is a specific language needed at times  to  be very 
specific about very specific things ( so no one can sue you later 
on!). And using regular human words doesn't always do the trick! It 
just *doesn't*, no matter how much one thinks or wishes it would. 
Every specialized profession can have some amount of specialized 
language that really truly  actually honest-to-god *is* needed to 
convey what it needs to convey and be able to do its job.  The danger 
is when that secret language is used to exert power and control over 
others ( and charge 'em tons of dough")  because us lay folk  don't 
quite know what the hell the "experts" are really  are saying. That's 
when it is being misused.  And it often is. But that doesn't make it 
all bad.

your buddy,
Good Cop Mark





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