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  1. 31 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    That's a good one.  I like the UT book because it clocks in at under 100 pages and could fit in my pocket. 

     

    I dug up my old Wariner's book from high school for something I was looking for late last year.  It now resides on my office bookshelf.

     

    Stephen King's On Writing is a fun read as well.  

    A fellow appellate lawyer I presume?

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  2. 17 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    Bryan Garner, in someone's opinion I may or may not have overheard and which likely was parody, molests collies whilst sniffing his own farts.

     

    If you want a book to help shore up your writing, save your money and just grab a Texas Law Review Manual on Usage & Style.  Refer to that if there's any question about usage or grammar.  Other than that, do your best to be clear and concise.  

     

    As far as authorities on the subject of written communications, Michael Adams has far more useful things to say about the written word than Garner could imagine.  And Robert Dubose has some very interesting and well-researched ideas about how more effectively to utilize and organize your writing when what you write will be read on a screen. 

    I still refer to my Elements of Style by Strunk & White from law school (Oxford Comma FTW!)

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  3. 40 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    An Oklahoma Supreme Court justice who wrote a ton of opinions over a few decades always refers to the trial court as the nisi prius (always italicized), and it always drives me crazy. He also starts his procedural and factual background section with the title "The Anatomy of Litigation." I was taught to use latin almost never and to talk like a person in my writing, which I do. We studied Bryan Garners book Plain English for Lawyers. 

    There's no reason to bring the rule nisi into this.

  4. 26 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    I'm down with the plain English part.  But don't get me started on the Cult of Garner and his convincing lawyers to put citations in the footnotes.  Every time I see that, I end up with whiplash.  And no, please don't make your statement of the issue half a page long.

    I remember meeting that guy 20 years ago or so (I think it was at the annual Fifth Circuit Bar Ass'n CLE in New Orleans, which, coincidentally, Sidney Powell chaired).  He was quite proud of himself.

  5. 24 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I took 2 years of Latin in high school, and I honestly didn't think I'd be seeing discussions about the language years down the road.  Yuck.

    The hills are alive...with the sound of Latin

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  6. 3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


    Pro tip: brush that sand off before using.

    Just…trust me on this.

    Is that a little man in a canoe I see?

  7. 18 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    I think I’d rather have my testicles unexpectedly secured to one another via nailgun than read such things. 

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  8. I’m acquainted with one of the owners. Always loved this place but Bishop Arts is a little too far to be in my regular rotation. Only made there a few times a year (but Hillside Tavern is in my rotation). 
     

    Losing this place is a real shame. 

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