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Hi. Vegas was excessive in all ways, which is why it exists. I'm busy burrowing out of small mounds of work that have accumulated, and I must learn that "judgment" has only one "e" and that "statute" is not "statue" and, well, is it just me or is the gratuitous use of latin in court decisions about the most lame pretentious crap you've ever seen?
Posted September 2, 2003 09:01 PM | law school
I CONSTANTLY misspell "judgment." Thankfully, Microsoft corrects me automatically. Have you noticed your spelling skills getting worse? Mine are leaving me, rapidly.
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Posted by: carolee at September 3, 2003 01:48 PM
I used to be a great speller. I wasn't one of the kids from Spellbound or anything, but I did win my school spelling bee in 5th grade.
Words I can no longer spell: judgment, privilege, promissee (I do not even know if I spelled them right just now!)
I also seem to have a disorder where my hands consistently create the same typos over and over and over: for becomes "fro" and to becomes "ot"
I further have a weird "silent d" that I keep inserting into any word that has an "s" in it. Ugh.
Sduper.
XoX--Cin
Posted by: Cinnamon at September 3, 2003 07:17 PM
I keep doing the same thing with "statute." And I keep switching plaintiffs and defendants in all my briefs; some sort of legal dyslexia...? One can only wonder. Good to have you back! :-)
Posted by: Katherine at September 3, 2003 08:55 PM
I *always* do the statue thing. I finally gave up. :)
Posted by: transmogriflaw at September 4, 2003 07:17 PM
Just because MS Word tells you it's wrong, doesn't mean it is. JudgEment and Judgment are both correct:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=judgement
Don't let the devil from redmond brain wash you.
Posted by: rex at September 7, 2003 10:56 AM
de minimis not curat mr. p
latin's ok... gratuitous latin sux.
Posted by: mr. p at September 7, 2003 04:19 PM
de minimis not curat mr. p
latin's ok... gratuitous latin sux.
Posted by: mr. p at September 7, 2003 04:21 PM
so important, I apparently needed to say it twice.
Posted by: mr. p at September 7, 2003 09:21 PM
"Judgement" regularly appears in my notes too!!!
Posted by: ADB at September 12, 2003 05:42 PM
Judgment/judgement was a recent debate in Appellate Ad class.
You, sir, have obviously not yet read a decision by Justice Cardozo. Call me when you have (and survived). Oh, and the dock cases in Torts - good God, how the heck do they expect us to read such ancient, wordy drivel? Thank God for hornbooks/casebooks!
Posted by: greg at September 15, 2003 01:53 AM
