The gig is up.

https://yubanet.com/scitech/mit-study-explains-why-laws-are-written-in-an-incomprehensible-style/

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Nice share. Thank you.

‘That analysis revealed that legal documents frequently have long definitions inserted in the middle of sentences — a feature known as “center-embedding.” Linguists have previously found that this kind of structure can make text much more difficult to understand.

“Legalese somehow has developed this tendency to put structures inside other structures, in a way which is not typical of human languages,” Gibson says.’

Sounds like the Python modules I use.

MIT discovers Fachjargon. 🙄

I knew it! Always an excellent long German word for it.