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:“''[blah blah blah] ... together with the amount, [[if any]], referred to below... [blah blah blah ad infinitum]''” | :“''[blah blah blah] ... together with the amount, [[if any]], referred to below... [blah blah blah ad infinitum]''” | ||
See how it stymies the natural flow of your sentence? wouldn't it be neater to say “''together with '''any''' amount''”? Why add that inessential adjectival clause? It may graunch your gears, but to a [[Mediocre lawyer|happy counsel]] it is ''pointilliste'': a percussive refrain; a syncopated rim-shot in the great jungle beat of the law. | See how it stymies the natural flow of your sentence? wouldn't it be neater to say “''together with '''any''' amount''”? Why add that inessential adjectival clause? | ||
It may graunch your gears, but to a [[Mediocre lawyer|happy counsel]] it is ''pointilliste'': a percussive refrain; a syncopated rim-shot in the great jungle beat of the law. | |||
===[[In your face]]=== | ===[[In your face]]=== | ||
[[If any]], like “[[or any part thereof]]”, is a neat exclamation point if you want to get the last word in a round of | [[If any]], like “[[or any part thereof]]”, is a neat exclamation point if you want to get the last word in a round of “[[Anal paradox|who’s the most anal lawyer]]” in the room. Appending that, sole, comment to a sheaf in 5.5pt font and [[fax]]ing it back an hour before the deal is due to close entitles one to a [[swept-back wing knee-slide]]. But, really, that is a cheap thrill — inserting late-breaking trifles is shooting fish in a barrel. It brings no inner peace. | ||
No; true ninja [[legal eagle]] points only accrue to the curmudgeonly sod on the ''other'' side — the [[JC]] likes to think it would be someone like him — who, with poker face and jaw set coolly against the ticking clock regards your facile markup and | No; true ninja [[legal eagle]] points only accrue to the curmudgeonly sod on the ''other'' side — the [[JC]] likes to think it would be someone like him — who, with poker face and jaw set coolly against the ticking clock, regards your facile markup and rails against its tyrannous [[anal paradox]]. He strikes that piffling amendment, citing the sacred interest of elegant prose, saying ''this will not do''. His priapic [[sales]] colleagues, seeing a fiscal bedding slipping away from them as surely as sand drains from the hourglass, can only gape. | ||
==={{icds}} show you how to do it=== | ==={{icds}} show you how to do it=== | ||