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Dear etaoin: I have trouble reading a lot of text like that. But with your encouragement
I got as far as this:
he publication of Hansard assists people to interpret not only the 'letter' but also the 'spirit' of the law. For instance, by
referring to Hansard, the courts are able to clarify what legislators meant in the wording of a particular statute (legislation passed
in the Assembly). Hansard helps to make politicians accountable. They know their every word will be recorded and may be
referred to by their political opponents or by members of the public or the media. Hansard records for posterity the activities of
the legislature, and reflects attitudes to significant issues of the day and the changing values and mores of society.
I was more careful with my brackets this time.
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yep! I think that hits the nail on the head! I found it to be not too reader-friendly as well. maybe you can boost the font size in your browser? Mozilla and Explorer do that fairly easily, and Netscape allows you to do it in your preferences, I believe. pardon the pun, but it might be worth looking into... I use Mozilla and do it frequently on text-heavy sites. 
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Dear etaoin: Netscape 4.7 has view Increase font. I also have six inch magnifier in circular
fluoresent held by jointed arm hitched to desk. But I still have trouble with long paragraphs.
I still think that "Hansardize" is a bit stinky, unless it was for Canadian readers. I doubt
many US readers would know it, Or UK either.
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Dear Bill: glad to know about Netscape. maybe someday computers will feel(and read) more like books, and then a lot of text won't be so onerous.
Well, I think journalists like to strut their stuff once in a while, and throw out words that very few people know. Unfortunately, most folks aren't going to run to the dictionary or the web to figure things out, they'll just skip over them. but we faithful are here, keeping the language alive!
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Dear etaoin: I'm all for journalists using uncommon words, when they do an uncommon
job of putting a whole sentence into one word that can be found in the dictionary.
But when it takes a computer search to find the term, that's going too far, and
when it is a foreign term, that's superegregiousness.
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ah, but we both rooted it out, didn't we? 
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Dear etaoin: I have discovered that some of the words at the bottom of the
Sphizzerinctum list give error message "Not found". Starting at the bottom,
I have made a list of them. Here are four of them for you to test your searching
skills on:
onsaw
chunnering
bugiard
caffeic (looks easy)
P.S. chunnering and caffeic were easy. I struck out on "onsaw" (name of character in a movie!)
and "bugiard". (something in Italian dialect"!
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onsaw is eluding me, too, though I've run into a couple of references in airline traffic control...? I don't think we want to know what "bugiard" means... I'll take some time later to continue the digging, but I really should be out building my shed right now...
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Don't let your shed "bugiard" you.
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my close personal friend Kevin Johnson once confessed to me that he gets most of his fodder for his spizz page browsing through the pages of the OED, and yes, many of the words he culls therefrom are obscure to the point of obsolescence. let's try that premise with 'onsaw' and 'bugiard'.
onsaw [Obs.] [late OE. onsagu, f. ON-1 1 + sagu, saying, SAW.]
A charge against a person, an accusation; reproach, opprobrious language.
bugiard [Obs.] [ad. It. bugiardo.]
A liar.
I'm afraid this will be a recurring theme with the spizz site.
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