Defining lexicographer – use ordinary words if possible
In the 1982 Paul Newman movie The Verdict, the high-priced lawyer defending the Archdiocese of Boston coaches the surgeon/defendant on his testimony – something like “Don’t say ‘aspirated her vomit‘,...
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I was recently proofreading a document for one of my daughters – in a technical field outside my expertise. In one sense that made it easier – I didn’t have to make a judgement about whether her...
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