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by worik 607 days ago
> humans found so many ways to nitpick the language and find loopholes that the legal language has evolved to be insanely verbose and specific.

That is what lawyers want you to think

Actually it is to keep lay people away from legal documents

I come from a legal family, and I can parse most, not all, legal documents

They could all, without exception, be written in plain English