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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|}}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. {{stockholm syndrome}} | ||
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. | ||