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Sunday Lexico-Neuroticism

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Wandering the N&B archives recently, I tripped over Isaac Zaur's weekly "Sunday Literary-ism" posts.  Click here and scroll down -- they are a pleasure.  For the rest of this summer (and perhaps beyond) I will attempt to follow in his footsteps with my own weekly offering.

Mine, however, shall spotlight abuses of the English language, perpetrated in the course of paid practice, by justices, judges, or lawyers. Like adultery, foot-funk, and alcoholic fathers, the first step in overcoming slovenly legal prose is to acknowledge and learn from its presence.  I'm not demanding you change your own usage in light of these posts, but my guess is that once you think about it, you'll want to.


To keep me on my toes, I will limit myself to atrocities I have encountered in the seven days immediately preceding the post. To keep you on your toes, I will not share what is wrong with the quoted passage.  And I promise, there is something wrong; this isn't 'Nam, this is language. There are rules.

This week's cringe is brought to you by Justice Rehnquist, of the United States Supreme Court:

[Joeseph] Dacies made a concerted effort to speak with people who were familiar with competent black bricklayers and then hired a large number of black bricklayers. Furnco Constr. Corp. v. Waters, 438 U.S. 567, 581 n.9 (1978).

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on July 21, 2008 (boomark / email).

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