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{{a|people|}}Amongst the jobsworths, the slouches, the vain contrarians and jouneypersons, there are some [[ninja]]s. It is as well to recognise them when you see them. These are the [[crack drafting squad]]s — paramilitary-trained professional vocabulary marksmen and markswomen of the financial services industry. They will stop at nothing to convolute the simple and, by heroic over-description, render the mundane impenetrable. | {{a|people|{{image|text machinery|png|An [[AI]] rendering of the crack drafting squad, yesterday}}}}Amongst the jobsworths, the slouches, the vain contrarians and jouneypersons, there are some [[ninja]]s. It is as well to recognise them when you see them. These are the [[crack drafting squad]]s — paramilitary-trained professional vocabulary marksmen and markswomen of the financial services industry. They will stop at nothing to convolute the simple and, by heroic over-description, render the mundane impenetrable. | ||
The best are those in the employ of [[ISDA]]. They came up with the quintuple negative in the definition of {{isdaprov|Indemnifiable Taxes}} after all. | The best are those in the employ of [[ISDA]]. They came up with the quintuple negative in the definition of {{isdaprov|Indemnifiable Taxes}} after all. The [[JC]] will never tire of marvelling at how comprehensively {{icds}} can, through its sheer, collected, anxiety, render basic concepts as vast, undulating tracts of unintelligible text: a grand, entropic, soggy nothingness. | ||
Actually, we can and do tire of it. But the mental effort of feigning respect and affection for [[the squad]]’s quaint syntactical idioms — learning to love the monster, so to speak; a form of self-inflicted [[Stockholm syndrome]] — has its benefits. For if you can’t ''laugh'', all hope is lost. | |||
But for sheer weight of volume and multi-lingual capability, the [[European Commission]]’s vicious mercenary wordsmiths — they who contrived “[[and, as the case may be, or]]”, after all — run the derivatives guys pretty close. | But for sheer weight of volume and multi-lingual capability, the [[European Commission]]’s vicious mercenary wordsmiths — they who contrived “[[and, as the case may be, or]]”, after all — run the derivatives guys pretty close. | ||
=== Nosferatu === | |||
In our pages you will read much of the “will to live,” and more particularly one’s ''loss'' of it when perusing the [[verbiage]] with which derivatives lawyers document their business. It rather raises the presumption that those who would set the semantic boundaries on capital markets documentation ''do not have'' a will to live. They ''can’t''. That, allied with a strangely nocturnal lifestyle, is behind the persistent rumours that ISDA is a disguised coven of vampires. | |||
===The crack drafting squads, listed=== | |||
*{{icds}} | |||
*{{eccds}} | |||
*{{islacds}} | |||
*{{icmacds}} | |||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[ISDA]] | *[[ISDA]] | ||
*[[European Commission]] | *[[European Commission]] |