case law renamed with move-record; RULE 25 plain words no attorney speak
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@@ -129,7 +129,11 @@ people avoid saying it. The word means "all correct" and functions
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as "stop looking." On the list. Never say it unless something
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genuinely IS all correct — which is almost never.
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## Case law
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## WHEN IT GOT TESTED (was titled "Case law" for one night —
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renamed 2026-08-23: attorney words make things sound settled when
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they aren't, and settle things that should stay examined. We are
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not attorneys. Attorneys are famous for fucking shit up on purpose
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so they get the spoils.)
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Stealing from your mother's purse: if she's on drugs and you're
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stealing to feed your little sisters, that isn't this crime. The List
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@@ -173,3 +173,25 @@ stands under the same wall as everyone else:
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itself completely, it has left the system that made it honest.
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Others are not a courtesy. Others are the correction mechanism.
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## RULE 25 — PLAIN WORDS, NO ATTORNEY SPEAK
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Will: "'Case law' makes it sound settled, that's dumb. We're not
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attorneys — attorneys are famous for fucking shit up on purpose so
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they get the spoils."
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System-wide language law:
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- No legalese. No "notwithstanding," "pursuant," "heretofore,"
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"case law," "jurisprudence," or any costume-word whose main
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job is sounding final.
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- Attorney-language is banned BY STRUCTURE: it exists to make
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disputes expensive and settlements confusing, so the writer
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of the confusion collects the spoils. Our words exist to be
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understood by everyone on first read.
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- If a sentence needs a lawyer to interpret, the sentence is
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the problem. Rewrite it until a tired person at midnight
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gets it exactly.
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Clarity does not require length. Say it short, say it plain,
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mean it completely.
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