Deemery

Towards more picturesque speech™ →Go uptown SEC guidance on plain EnglishIndex: Click ᐅ to expand: Plain English Drafting Metaphor Tell me more Sign up for our newsletter — or just get in touch: for ½ a weekly 🍺 you get to consult JC. Ask about it here.

Triago: Milady! With all due and payable respect, and interest accrued thereon
I wouldst be inclined to be supportive of dissent —

Queen: O, exasperating vapours! Whatever doth he mean?

Herculio: Triago disagrees.
“Inclined”, Triago?
“Supportive”?
As straight as that?
No deemery to wrap it round?

Triago: Aye, deemèd, perchance — I pray just such indulgence
To vouchsafe avoidance of some doubt.

Queen: Doubt, Triago?

Triago: I’ll think of something, Majesty.

Deemery
/diːməri/ (n¬.)

(Also Demnation /dəmˈneɪʃn/; in

The technical skill and art of deeming; of construing one thing as something else. To mess around with the ontological order of the semantic universe; to skew hermeneutic space-tedium into another dimension, especially in order to confusion the laiety.

See also

• Deem
• Space-tedium continuum
• Common law doctrine of Demption