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[[File:Secret.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Do you promise not to tell, and if you do, do you acknowledge damages may not be an adequate remedy?]] | [[File:Secret.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Do you promise not to tell, and if you do, do you acknowledge damages may not be an adequate remedy?]] | ||
}}{{d|confidentiality agreement|/ˌkɒnfɪdɛnʃɪˈæləti/ /əˈgriːmənt/|n|}} (Also known, to those for whom the glass is half-empty, as a [[non-disclosure agreement]], or an [[NDA]]. Or a “[[confi]]”.) <br> | }}{{d|confidentiality agreement|/ˌkɒnfɪdɛnʃɪˈæləti/ /əˈgriːmənt/|n|}} (Also known, to those for whom the glass is half-empty, as a “[[non-disclosure agreement]]”, or an “[[NDA]]”. Or a “[[confi]]”.) <br> | ||
1. (''Forensic evolution'') The ostentatious courtship display of a fecund [[legal eagle]]. Identified as a kind of Darwinian [[textual selection]] because the length and gravity of the terms of a [[non-disclosure agreement]] varies in exact inverse proportion to its subject matter. The more fatuous the “confidential information”, the more stentorian in term and baroque in expression the NDA tends to be. Thus, a [[legal department]] whose plumage boasts an enormous multicolored [[NDA]] is broadcasting to the rest of the market, “look how fertile I am! I can insist on this transparently idiotic legal contract and people still sign it! It is absurd along every conceivable dimension, yet, here I still am, my business in rude health!” <br> | 1. (''Forensic evolution'') The ostentatious courtship display of a fecund [[legal eagle]]. Identified as a kind of Darwinian [[textual selection]] because the length and gravity of the terms of a [[non-disclosure agreement]] varies in exact inverse proportion to its subject matter. The more fatuous the “confidential information”, the more stentorian in term and baroque in expression the NDA tends to be. Thus, a [[legal department]] whose plumage boasts an enormous multicolored [[NDA]] is broadcasting to the rest of the market, “look how fertile I am! I can insist on this transparently idiotic legal contract and people still sign it! It is absurd along every conceivable dimension, yet, here I still am, my business in rude health!” <br> | ||