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Re: Legal English (was RE: Using M-dash and N-dash?)
Subject:Re: Legal English (was RE: Using M-dash and N-dash?) From:"Paul Strasser" <paul -dot- strasser -at- ennovationinc -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:09:30 -0700
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> Er... are you overlooking the fact that the decline in bad
> things and the increase in sales have occurred /b/e/c/a/u/s/e/
> er.... ah... since you left?
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> /kevin (wondering if he can run fast enough or hide well enough :-)
touche!
Interestingly, I did have to go to arbitration, long before I became a
realtor. We were buying a house and it fell through. The documents we
signed were so poorly written that the arbitrator ruled in our favor because
he - a law professor - couldn't figure them out himself. The company used
non-standard forms, incidentally. The rep for the builder admitted to me
later (it was all rather amicable) that they sort of just copied stuff from
other forms and never had a lawyer look them over.
In other words, no SME. (That was a futile attempt to associate this to
tech writing.)
Paul Strasser
Ennovation, Inc.
2569 Park Lane, Suite 100
Lafayette, Colorado 80026
Phone: 303-468-1164
FAX: 303-926-1510
E-mail: paul -dot- strasser -at- ennovationinc -dot- com
