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Re: Legal English (was RE: Using M-dash and N-dash?)
Subject:Re: Legal English (was RE: Using M-dash and N-dash?) From:"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l Date:Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:30:18 -0500
<eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com> wrote:
> On of the difficult steps in instituting plain English laws and contracts
> is linking the new plain English text with the previous jurisprudence.
This discussion reminds me of the late Congressman Sonny Bono, who in a
House committee wondered out loud why they had to use so much "legalese,"
and the other congressmen had to remind him "Mr. Bono, we are making *laws*
here."
