Comments on: Why I am not a lawyer*

By: estelle

estelle — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:38:58 +0000

You are very, very sleepy…

Thanks Elena! I’m not, either.

By: Elena

Elena — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:55:36 +0000

My brain just broke. THANKS Estelle!

(btw congrats on the job with Kill Your Darlings – I don’t think the literary community is shedding any tears over your law[yer]lessness.)

By: estelle tang

estelle tang — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:53:00 +0000

You MUST tell me more about this professor of yours. Why did she do that? Were those learned stylists not up to her standards? (Giving her the benefit of the doubt, here.) Or did she incite you to obfuscate, obfuscate, obfuscate?

By: Constance Reader

Constance Reader — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:45:57 +0000

They actually have to TEACH us to write like that. I was a Writing major undergrad–first thing my Legal Writing prof did was make me burn Strunk and White, right before her eyes.

By: estelle

estelle — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:58:16 +0000

Belle, you have excellent comprehension skills. To be fair to Gibbs and Aickin J, that sentence was written thirty years ago. But still!

By: Belle

Belle — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:03:35 +0000

I don’t know whether to be sad or not that I knew what that sentence meant right away … Clearly the plain language movement in law has quite a way to go!