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Off topic: Nursery rhymes into legalese
Thread poster: RominaZ
RominaZ
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Jan 28, 2013

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This post on From words to deeds blog shows how the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill" would translate into legalese. The image below shows just a few paragraphs



You can read the complete accident report at From words to deeds blog. You can also follow the blog author on Twitter at @wordstodeeds.

Credit to original work in blog post.

I hope you like it.

Romina
 
Sitiens (X)
Sitiens (X)
Sweden
Local time: 14:59
English to Swedish
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Wow! Jan 29, 2013

Absolutely brilliant! Now I'm tempted to write a IFU for the pail...
 
Phil Hand
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China
Local time: 20:59
Chinese to English
:( embarrassing Jan 29, 2013

Eek. I wouldn't put that up on my blog.

Science 101: the properties of a compound are different to the properties of its constituent elements.
 


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