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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>legalese</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="legal.html" title="legal"/><link rel="next" href="lenna.html" title="lenna"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">legalese</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="legal.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lenna.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="legalese"/><dt xmlns="" id="legalese"><b>legalese</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Dense, pedantic verbiage in a language description, product
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specification, or interface standard; text that seems designed to obfuscate
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and requires a <a href="language-lawyer.html"><i class="glossterm">language lawyer</i></a> to
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<a href="../P/parse.html"><i class="glossterm">parse</i></a> it. Though hackers are not afraid of high
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information density and complexity in language (indeed, they rather enjoy
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both), they share a deep and abiding loathing for legalese; they associate
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it with deception, <a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s, and situations in which
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hackers generally get the short end of the stick.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="legal.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lenna.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">legal </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lenna</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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