In a message dated 9/17/00 7:56:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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<< No -- *generating* legalese is what lawyers are for. If they wrote things
 in clear English that everyone could understand, we wouldn't need as
 many lawyers or judges. >>

  And contracts would be 10 times longer than they already are. LEgalese is 
not simply a way to confound lay readers. The words have specific meaning in 
law that can take many, many times as many words to define in "plain 
English." That's what the poster was saying, IMO.

  Mark Arsenault
  President, Gold Rush Entertainment, Inc.
  (Gilded Crest | Golden Pillar Publishing | Gold Rush Games)
  PO Box 2531 Elk Grove, CA 95759 | http://www.goldrushg.com
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