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{{rightbox|'''The Devil’s Advocate'''{{tm}} <br> | {{rightbox|'''The Devil’s Advocate'''{{tm}} <br> | ||
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}}It’s all very well complaining, as reform-minded lawyers are [[inclined]] to, that [[legalese]] is absurd, does no-one any good, and that it must, ''surely'', dawn on the world’s professional wordsmiths at some time soon that whole-hearted surrender to [[plain English]] will assure them of an exponential explosion in productivity and profitability. The case of [[plain English]] is the [[legal eagle]]’s [[efficient language hypothesis|efficient market hypothesis]]: it ''should'' work, but doesn’t: where clean lines and abrupt cadences should, logically, lighten our load, textual profligacy jabs a defiant finger in the eye of the right-thinking logician who believes {{sex|he}} maps the territory of our hearts. The facts tell a different story: {{sex|he}} doesn’t. | }}It’s all very well complaining, as reform-minded lawyers are [[inclined]] to, that [[legalese]] is absurd, does no-one any good, and that it must, ''surely'', dawn on the world’s professional wordsmiths at some time soon that whole-hearted surrender to [[plain English]] will assure them of an exponential explosion in productivity and profitability. The case of [[plain English]] is the [[legal eagle]]’s [[efficient language hypothesis|efficient market hypothesis]]: it ''should'' work, but doesn’t: where clean lines and abrupt cadences should, logically, lighten our load, textual profligacy jabs a defiant finger in the eye of the right-thinking logician who believes {{sex|he}} maps the territory of our hearts. The facts tell a different story: {{sex|he}} doesn’t. | ||