Edward Gibson
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You just throw your definitions, you use a word, a couple words, and then you define it, and then you continue the sentence. Like, just don't write like that. And you ask, so then we asked lawyers, we thought, oh, maybe lawyers like this. Lawyers don't like this. They don't like this. They don't want to write like this.
You just throw your definitions, you use a word, a couple words, and then you define it, and then you continue the sentence. Like, just don't write like that. And you ask, so then we asked lawyers, we thought, oh, maybe lawyers like this. Lawyers don't like this. They don't like this. They don't want to write like this.
We asked them to rate materials which are with the same meaning, with un-centribed and centribed, and they much preferred the un-centribed versions.
We asked them to rate materials which are with the same meaning, with un-centribed and centribed, and they much preferred the un-centribed versions.
We asked them to rate materials which are with the same meaning, with un-centribed and centribed, and they much preferred the un-centribed versions.
Yeah, and we asked them, would you hire someone who writes like this or this? We asked them all kinds of questions, and they always preferred the less complicated version, all of them. So I don't even think they want it this way. Yeah, but how did it happen? How did it happen? That's a very good question. And the answer is, I still don't know.
Yeah, and we asked them, would you hire someone who writes like this or this? We asked them all kinds of questions, and they always preferred the less complicated version, all of them. So I don't even think they want it this way. Yeah, but how did it happen? How did it happen? That's a very good question. And the answer is, I still don't know.
Yeah, and we asked them, would you hire someone who writes like this or this? We asked them all kinds of questions, and they always preferred the less complicated version, all of them. So I don't even think they want it this way. Yeah, but how did it happen? How did it happen? That's a very good question. And the answer is, I still don't know.
Well, our best theory at the moment is that there's actually some kind of a performative meaning in the center embedding in the style which tells you it's legalese. We think that that's the kind of a style which tells you it's legalese. Like, that's a reasonable guess. And maybe it's just... So, for instance, if you're... Like, it's like... So we kind of call this the magic spell hypothesis.
Well, our best theory at the moment is that there's actually some kind of a performative meaning in the center embedding in the style which tells you it's legalese. We think that that's the kind of a style which tells you it's legalese. Like, that's a reasonable guess. And maybe it's just... So, for instance, if you're... Like, it's like... So we kind of call this the magic spell hypothesis.
Well, our best theory at the moment is that there's actually some kind of a performative meaning in the center embedding in the style which tells you it's legalese. We think that that's the kind of a style which tells you it's legalese. Like, that's a reasonable guess. And maybe it's just... So, for instance, if you're... Like, it's like... So we kind of call this the magic spell hypothesis.
So when you tell someone to put a magic spell on someone, what do you do? People know what a magic spell is and they do a lot of rhyming. That's kind of what people will tend to do. They'll do rhyming and they'll do some kind of poetry kind of thing.
So when you tell someone to put a magic spell on someone, what do you do? People know what a magic spell is and they do a lot of rhyming. That's kind of what people will tend to do. They'll do rhyming and they'll do some kind of poetry kind of thing.
So when you tell someone to put a magic spell on someone, what do you do? People know what a magic spell is and they do a lot of rhyming. That's kind of what people will tend to do. They'll do rhyming and they'll do some kind of poetry kind of thing.
Yeah. And maybe there's a syntactic sort of reflex here of a magic spell, which is centromedding. And so that's like, oh, it's trying to tell you this is something which is true, which is what the goal of law is, right? It's telling you something that... we want you to believe as certainly true, right? That's what legal contracts are trying to enforce on you, right?
Yeah. And maybe there's a syntactic sort of reflex here of a magic spell, which is centromedding. And so that's like, oh, it's trying to tell you this is something which is true, which is what the goal of law is, right? It's telling you something that... we want you to believe as certainly true, right? That's what legal contracts are trying to enforce on you, right?
Yeah. And maybe there's a syntactic sort of reflex here of a magic spell, which is centromedding. And so that's like, oh, it's trying to tell you this is something which is true, which is what the goal of law is, right? It's telling you something that... we want you to believe as certainly true, right? That's what legal contracts are trying to enforce on you, right?
And so maybe that's like a form which has, this is like an abstract, very abstract form, syndrome betting, which has a meaning associated with it.
And so maybe that's like a form which has, this is like an abstract, very abstract form, syndrome betting, which has a meaning associated with it.
And so maybe that's like a form which has, this is like an abstract, very abstract form, syndrome betting, which has a meaning associated with it.