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In an email from an American lawyer which not surprisingly flummoxed my Indonesian colleague:
Can we ex post facto them?
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I think this is a term of art meaning 'convey the information by Fedex'.
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In an email from an American lawyer which not surprisingly flummoxed my Indonesian colleague:
Can we ex post facto them?
So we are now verbing Latin phrases! Pray tell, what is the past tense? Exed post facto? Ex posted facto? Ex post factoed? exed posted factoed?
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Ex post factoed?
Works for me.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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On "The Practice", the lawyers used "Plan B" as a verb - Tell me you're not going to Plan B them.
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formerly known as etaoin...
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Quote:
Often tensely.
We all have our little problems.
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But those are past tense.
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Yeah, they're all the way to rigid.
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