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{{a|plainenglish|[[File:Knee-slide.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Your [[legal eagle]] in the midst of a [[swept-back wing knee-slide]], yesterday.]]}}A two-word motif that, as much as any other, belies an [[Mediocre lawyer|attorney]]’s deep existential fear of his own language. It speaks of a nervousness that, should a dependent clause bite on something that isn’t there, somehow the whole linguistic edifice will come crashing down; en edifice that can yet miraculously be affixed to the firmament with this single wipe of the [[mediocre lawyer|attorney]]’s {{tag|flannel}}. | {{a|plainenglish|[[File:Knee-slide.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Your [[legal eagle]] in the midst of a [[swept-back wing knee-slide]], yesterday.]]}}A two-word motif that, as much as any other, belies an [[Mediocre lawyer|attorney]]’s deep existential fear of his own language. It speaks of a nervousness that, should a dependent clause bite on something that isn’t there, somehow the whole linguistic edifice will come crashing down; en edifice that can yet miraculously be affixed to the firmament with this single wipe of the [[mediocre lawyer|attorney]]’s {{tag|flannel}}. | ||
:“''[blah blah blah] ... | :“''[blah blah blah] ... together with the amount, [[if any]], referred to below... [blah blah blah ad infinitum]''” | ||
See how it stymies your sentence’s natural flow? wouldn't it be neater to say “''together with '''any''' amount''”? Why add that none essential adjectival clause? If, like the [[JC]], you fancy yourself a prose stylist it may graunch your gears, but to your [[Mediocre lawyer|happy counsel]] it is ''pointilliste'': a percussive refrain; a syncopated rim-shot in the great jungle beat of the law. | See how it stymies your sentence’s natural flow? wouldn't it be neater to say “''together with '''any''' amount''”? Why add that none essential adjectival clause? If, like the [[JC]], you fancy yourself a prose stylist it may graunch your gears, but to your [[Mediocre lawyer|happy counsel]] it is ''pointilliste'': a percussive refrain; a syncopated rim-shot in the great jungle beat of the law. | ||