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Why is obfuscating the intentions of a document in dense language most people can't properly understand a thing that's allowed to be upheld? They might as well
by jgh 8y ago
Why is obfuscating the intentions of a document in dense language most people can't properly understand a thing that's allowed to be upheld? They might as well write the damn things in Esperanto for all they're worth to most of the folks who click agree.
- ams6110 8y agoI can only think it must be analagous to why programs have a lot of features people don't understand or use. Git might be a case in point. Smart programmers think of every possible edge case and "what if" and try to cover all those things. The result is a confusing mess for people who just want to get the "happy path" work done. Lawyers try to think of every interpretation and circumstance and try to be sure the agreement addresses those unambiguously. Ironically, the dense language that results is anything but unambiguous to the untrained reader.
- haZard_OS 8y agoMildly pedantic complaint: Esperanto is actually easier to learn than many other languages so the analogy doesn't work. But I get what you mean.