Randy Bennell wrote: > OT offering > When your brain knows just the right word, you can be more concise. And > sometimes you can slip in the verbal dagger without the victim > understanding what you’ve done.
> *Insouciant* > > When you want to say the defendants in the medical malpractice case just > don’t give a damn, you can label their procedures insouciant. Insouciant > translates from French as “uncaring.” Insouciance encapsulates the > essence of negligence. > Specious > > The law is a learned profession, right? So you would never call your > opponent a liar. But you might assert that their arguments are specious. > Banal > > You (and the judge) have heard this (specious?) argument a hundred > times. It’s trite. It’s boring. You could say, “Counsel’s banal > assertion does not justify the position set forth in this case.” This > word is correctly pronounced as many as three ways, though the preferred > pronunciation rhymes with “canal.” > RB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The enormous success of the U.S. may be because nearly all members of Congress and occupants of the White House are lawyers. Lawyers seldom resort to guns, knives, and fisticuffs like the appointed/elected rulers of other countries do; and like Americas legislators did in its early days. Americas lawyers uphold the tradition of the British Whigs. "The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force: With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument." Let us all join the American Whig Party. http://www.modernwhig.org/ (oops! Sorry Dan) --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
