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Redundancy. [[Celery]]. The [[bleeding obvious]]. | |||
Timid drafting for [[Mediocre lawyer|members of the legal profession]] whose mastery of the language in which they ply their craft is so compromised as to struggle with the difference between [[may]] and [[must]]. | |||
Don’t be that person. | Don’t be that person. | ||
“[[May]]” confers an ''[[option]]'', not an ''[[obligation]]''. | |||
{{plainenglish}} | {{plainenglish}} | ||
Revision as of 13:58, 5 July 2018
Redundancy. Celery. The bleeding obvious.
Timid drafting for members of the legal profession whose mastery of the language in which they ply their craft is so compromised as to struggle with the difference between may and must.
Don’t be that person.
“May” confers an option, not an obligation.
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