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0 pointsSoftTalker1y ago0 comments

I assume you're in the legal profession? Do you find, as you proofread, that you want to insert caveats and qualifiers into the "simple" language and end up with something like the original legalese?

Legal language is what it is in large part because simple short sentences are too imprecise to express the detail needed.

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aeonik1y ago

Indeed, a corrolary in computer science is the the reasoning behind why using the Go programming language is, in general, a major mistake.

Simple vocabularies, while attractive will inevitably fail to properly describe systems of any sufficient complexity without long chains of hard to follow low-level logic.

Any system of sufficient complexity necessitates the use of more complex vocabulary to capture all the nuances of the system. See: Legalese, medical jargon, chemical naming schemes, the existence of mathematics itself, etc..

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0 pointsSoftTalker1y ago0 comments

I assume you're in the legal profession? Do you find, as you proofread, that you want to insert caveats and qualifiers into the "simple" language and end up with something like the original legalese?

Legal language is what it is in large part because simple short sentences are too imprecise to express the detail needed.

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aeonik1y ago

Indeed, a corrolary in computer science is the the reasoning behind why using the Go programming language is, in general, a major mistake.

Simple vocabularies, while attractive will inevitably fail to properly describe systems of any sufficient complexity without long chains of hard to follow low-level logic.

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