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For you are busy, you need to get out the door because it’s your anniversary, or you are keen to enjoy the [[work-life balance]] your employer keeps going on about, and the last round of [[comments]] include asking you to remove the bold from a full stop<ref>True Story. {{bold full stop}}</ref>, the single insertion: “[[unless the parties otherwise agree]]”, or the careful clarification that such [[prior notice]] is “not to have retrospective effect”. | For you are busy, you need to get out the door because it’s your anniversary, or you are keen to enjoy the [[work-life balance]] your employer keeps going on about, and the last round of [[comments]] include asking you to remove the bold from a full stop<ref>True Story. {{bold full stop}}</ref>, the single insertion: “[[unless the parties otherwise agree]]”, or the careful clarification that such [[prior notice]] is “not to have retrospective effect”. | ||
You know this is pedantic, oafish, legally ignorant, but — like [[celery]] — it does no harm. An adversarial conversation with this fellow is likely to end in harsh words or even violence, so you demur: “[[I’m not going to die in a ditch about it]]”, you say, by which you mean “I will try to control my animal impulses so ''you'' don’t wind up dead in a ditch”, and in that clumsy utterance goes, but only because you think that’s the last you’ll ever hear of it. | You know this is pedantic, oafish, legally ignorant, but — like [[celery]] — while it brings no joy, it does no harm. An adversarial conversation with this fellow is likely to end in harsh words or even violence, so you demur: “[[I’m not going to die in a ditch about it]]”, you say, by which you mean “I will try to control my animal impulses so ''you'' don’t wind up dead in a ditch”, and in that clumsy utterance goes, but only because you think that’s the last you’ll ever hear of it. | ||
Fat chance. In the morning, a new mark-up will arrive, with a plague of “[[unless the parties agree otherwise]]s” settling like locusts on your elegant prose, [[for the avoidance of doubt]]. | Fat chance. In the morning, a new mark-up will arrive, with a plague of “[[unless the parties agree otherwise]]s” settling like locusts on your elegant prose, [[for the avoidance of doubt]]. | ||