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To be HAPPY LAWYERS should talk like THE EARLY MAN!!!

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SIM-POOL Legal Language = Happy Lawyers?

My friends were red, blue and green. They were playing in the cess pool. Holi ka festival tha. My friends were behaving like animals and shouting hoooooo, haaaaaaa, wooooooo etc etc. They were in joy. Only simple monosyllables like these could be uttered. Like animals you know, I know.

Maybe even early man was very happy. Because sim-pool language (straight from the gut) is the language of the heart. Poetry (straight from the heart) is the language of the soul.

Now here is a simple assumption: Where language is simple, there is a clarity of thought. Where there is clarity of thoughts, things go well.

But what about the legal language (straight from the wicked brains and evil hearts)?. Why is it so complicated?

Now here is a weird question/conclusion: Are lawyers generally unhappy coz the language is so foreign to their existence? Because complicated and perennially confusing usage of words disturbs them? (Ahhh! Profound)

A time comes when they are proud that they know the complication and the confusion well. Being eternally confused they do things which are very muddy coz their thoughts lack clarity.

A simple question/ conclusion: Do we need to simplify our legal parlance to promote knowledge of law everywhere (including Bihar)? That will surely result in more awareness of legal rights etc.

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