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Why do lawyers and cops talk so obliquely?
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February 6th, 2014
Instead of saying “Car A hit car B,” they say, “Car A impacted car B.”
Instead of saying, “They saw cocaine on the seat,” they say “They observed cocaine on the seat.”
I’m a fan Judge Judy, and I notice that sometimes the plaintiffs/defendants try to talk the same way, I guess in an effort to sound intelligent, but to me it sounds stilted and pretentious.
Is there some reasonable explanation for this convoluted way of speaking in the legal world?
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