(10-29-2021, 05:16 PM)guohua Wrote: That is what My Husband said also, he agrees with you,,,,(I wonder why, LOL)
I translated the Analysis given in the post into Mandarin so I could read and better understand her reply.
Clearly it's because he's a hyper-intelligent man who has had a rich lifetime of experience having to wrestle with a bureaucracy that just doesn't give a shit about it's citizenry, and so he has had to learn legalese as a means of self-defense, law-jutsu I suppose!
I'd be interested to hear how well American Legalese translates into Mandarin - it doesn't translate into English well at all, and one has to be almost a native speaker of Legalese to make heads or tails of it!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’