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Much of the text that comprises a modern financial services trading contract amounts to textual [[throat-clearing]]: filler to create heft and dispel the sinking feeling that what you might be up to by entering this binding legal arrangement might not be very much at all. | {{pe}}Much of the text that comprises a modern financial services trading contract amounts to textual [[throat-clearing]]: filler to create heft and dispel the sinking feeling that what you might be up to by entering this binding legal arrangement might not be very much at all. | ||
There are easy expressions to lob in which can make a simple sentence longer: [[from time to time]]; [[as the case may be]]; there are more complicated parentheticals of theoretically endless length, which add nothing “([[for the avoidance of doubt]] ...)”; “([[including without limitation]] ...)”; “([[whether or not]] ...)” | There are easy expressions to lob in which can make a simple sentence longer: [[from time to time]]; [[as the case may be]]; there are more complicated parentheticals of theoretically endless length, which add nothing “([[for the avoidance of doubt]] ...)”; “([[including without limitation]] ...)”; “([[whether or not]] ...)” |