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Pure nonsense: how English-speaking lawyers can't resist absurd language
Modern Lawyer
Vol. 8 - Iss. 2 pp. 51–53
Jul 2024
A trait of many English-speaking lawyers - senior and junior - is to clutter up their spoken words with weird colloquialisms, rather than using normal, intelligible language. The truth is, this is a habit among speakers of English generally. But shouldn't lawyers be different? After all, the lawyer's tool is language. His/her selling point is clarity. Yet far from expunging such use, lawyer-speak is filled with it. For many lawyers, it's not even deliberate, but it's reflexive behavior, and an ingrained habit.