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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Re: sesquipedalianism and the law #155660 02/15/06 12:49 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Or, the, um, Foote notes? [cringe] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: sesquipedalianism and the law #155661 02/15/06 02:10 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory A Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah A Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory While I admire anyone with command and love of language, his style is not one that I would employ, even if I had his vocabularly. My idea of a gifted writer in this context is someone who can express a complex idea succinctly using simple words. Humor in general, and especially puns, would seem more appropriately used sparingly in legal documents, like the tiniest pinch of saffron in a stew. Big words should also be used sparingly and when no common alternative will do, such as to express a subtle shade of meaning. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: sesquipedalianism and the law #155662 02/15/06 05:15 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Please read and brief the following law review articles and have the abstracts on my desk by tomorrow morning: Thomas E. Baker, A Review of Corpus Juris Humorous, 24 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 869 (1993). Judge Alex Kozinski & Eugene Volokh, "Lawsuit, Shmawsuit," 103 Yale Law Journal 463 (1993). Mary Kate Kearney, The Propriety of Poetry in Judicial Opinions, 12 Widener L.J. 597 (2003). Adalberto Jordan, "Imagery, Humor, and the Judicial Opinion," 41 U. Miami L. Rev. 693 (1987). Marshall Rudolph, Note, "Judicial Humor: A Laughing Matter?", 41 Hastings L.J. 175 (1989). George Rose Smith, "A Critique of Judicial Humor," 43 Ark. L. Rev. 1 (1990). Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Humor and the law #155663 02/15/06 11:45 AM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC OH to have a Nexus account!!!! TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Humor and the law #155664 02/15/06 01:38 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory A Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah A Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory Yikes! Um, the dog ate my briefs. Wait, that sounds funny. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Humor and the law #155665 02/15/06 01:52 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA Brings to mind a story I heard, reputedly true, but probably not, of a courtroom exchange between a lawyer and a doctor. It went something like ... "And how did you know he was dead?" "Well, his brain was in a jar by the table, but I suppose he might have been out somewhere practicing law." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,361 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 678 guests, and 2 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 35 A C Bowden 22 LukeJavan8 3 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,557 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,919 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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