Sunday, November 07, 2004
LOSING MY ENGLISH
LAW DESTROYS ENGLISH! No doubt about it, ever since my 1st year of law school, my self-expression has been impeded by the legal manner of writing. One sentence into this blog and I already catch myself using "manner of".
Needless to say, (there I go again), the natural consequence of four years of law, eight years of practice and four years in the judiciary, connive to bring about a form of english that is best described as gobbledygook!
Thank God for the Plain Language initiatives. I've been paying more attention to my daughter's grade 3 Language textbooks.
And what better way to practice my rediscovered English than with a BLOG?
As this blog grows longer, so should my English become more understandable, devoid of terms that look best in a legal pleading.
Here's to plain language!
Needless to say, (there I go again), the natural consequence of four years of law, eight years of practice and four years in the judiciary, connive to bring about a form of english that is best described as gobbledygook!
Thank God for the Plain Language initiatives. I've been paying more attention to my daughter's grade 3 Language textbooks.
And what better way to practice my rediscovered English than with a BLOG?
As this blog grows longer, so should my English become more understandable, devoid of terms that look best in a legal pleading.
Here's to plain language!
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