@tnielsenhayden E.g., the "Apply to VP" webpage requesting "a synopsis or outline," when we aren't making any distinction.
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@MrPersimmon Ever notice how often the standard formulations in legal language use two or three synonyms?5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@tnielsenhayden@MrPersimmon Hrm. In "cease & desist", cease means stop, desist means don't start up again. Key technical distinction.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@tnielsenhayden@MrPersimmon If you only ordered someone to cease, they could validly comply by momentarily not doing whatever it is.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@chaosprime If "cease" is the only one of them you know, then in your vocabulary, "cease" means "stop" in all its senses.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@tnielsenhayden *nod* Which is how trying to understand legal documents in general-usage terms gets one thoroughly fucked.4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@chaosprime Are lawyers generally in the habit of expecting everyone else to work at understanding them? That's been my experience so far.6 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@tnielsenhayden@chaosprime IME, lawyers should speak Human to clients and Lawyer to each other. Lawyer is a more precise language.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@evilrooster This applies to doctors too.@tnielsenhayden@chaosprime1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@pendrift@evilrooster@chaosprime Right. Thus the handwriting.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
.@tnielsenhayden @pendrift @evilrooster Science fact: legibility of handwriting correlates inversely with how big a deal you think you are.
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@chaosprime@pendrift@evilrooster I think it correlates with how much of the resulting trouble is going to fall on you.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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