GDG- Arty Anti-personnel Effectiveness

[Norman Levitt]

>From: keith mackenzie <bluzdad at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
>To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
>Subject: Re: GDG- Arty Anti-personnel  Effectiveness
>Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 14:55:47 -0800 (PST)
>
>Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
>Doesn't happen very often, but I had to look this one up:
>
>
>   tendentious \ten-DEN-shuhs\, adjective:
>Marked by a strong tendency in favor of a particular point of view.
>
>   All types of social disagreements seem to be routed almost inexorably 
>into the tendentious jargon and intellectually impoverished categories of 
>legal reasoning, until everyone from Alan Dershowitz to the guy fixing your 
>radiator insists on giving you his opinion about fundamental rights, or 
>presumptions of innocence, or probable cause, or--God help us--"what the 
>Constitution requires."
>-- Paul F. Campos, Jurismania: The Madness of American Law
>
>   Just in case I wasn't the only one.
>   K.
>

Hear, hear!!  I stand foursquare behind the principle that one should 
unremittingly eschew recondite and sesquipedalian locutions.

NL

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