Hahahahahaha ... lawyers and language! *twitch* Yes, I know a technical writer who works for a law firm, and have been the recipient of many of his rants.

I don't have to deal with that, instead I have to deal with people who put scare quotes around any "jargon" that seems "new" and "technical" to them. Like the sentence: The survey will "go live" on Monday. Thank Providence that the cataloger drafted that for *me* to send, and I was able to edit it before the email went out. (And I had a ref librarian scare-quote "jargon" to me when she was explaining that she didn't know technical jargon likt the word "directory" in my explanation to her. I keep forgetting to use "folder" instead of "directory".)

The aforementioned cataloger wanted me to include my email address and phone number in the email so that anyone in the library who had questions or concerns about the survey could contact me. Bzuh? If they can't hit "reply" and get my email address that way, they're too stupid to talk to me, and anyway: when was the last time you had an emergency question about an already-approved survey that had to be answered RIGHT THEN? I removed my phone number from the email and surprisingly received exactly zero email queries about the survey.

Sorry for the rant. :P