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	{{g}}The principle of legal drafting, which we attribute to {{author\|Stanley Fish}} and his work {{br\|How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One}} — the gist of which is ''just keep going, don’t ever stop''. Look, ''you'' might as well enjoy yourself, since in all likelihood you will be the only one who will ever read your sentence, let alone take anything meaningful out of it.<ref>I confess this might involve some editorialising on my part.</ref>		{{a\|plainenglish\|}}The principle of legal drafting, which we attribute to {{author\|Stanley Fish}} and his work {{br\|How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One}} — the gist of which is ''just keep going, don’t ever stop''. Look, ''you'' might as well enjoy yourself, since in all likelihood you will be the only one who will ever read your sentence, let alone take anything meaningful out of it.<ref>I confess this might involve some editorialising on my part.</ref>

	Professor Fish is of a mind that there is only one bound to the possibilities of grammatical construction, and that is at the short end: there is a definite minimum limit to a sentence<ref>It is said Victor Hugo enquired, “?” in a letter to his publisher, by way of enquiry after the sales of ''Les Miserables''; his publisher’s reply was “!”</ref> — but no maximum, and it behoves one who is employed to manipulate language to do so as expansively as she can, deploying as many folds, crevices and fissures as possible, to allow other, similarly-minded professionals, to make their own homes and livelihoods in that budding textual ecosystem.		Professor Fish is of a mind that there is only one bound to the possibilities of grammatical construction, and that is at the short end: there is a definite minimum limit to a sentence<ref>It is said Victor Hugo enquired, “?” in a letter to his publisher, by way of enquiry after the sales of ''Les Miserables''; his publisher’s reply was “!”</ref> — but no maximum, and it behoves one who is employed to manipulate language to do so as expansively as she can, deploying as many folds, crevices and fissures as possible, to allow other, similarly-minded professionals, to make their own homes and livelihoods in that budding textual ecosystem.