I'd much rather we all spoke on first attempt like we write after thoughtful review.
I'm reminded of the (gradual) removal of all Latin from British legislation with a view to making it more 'accessible', at the obvious expense of the concise preciseness that the language afford: "with having changed the things requiring changing" is rather less economical than "mutatis mutandis".
In a slightly facetious sort of way, I also think the "thanks to .. for reading drafts of this" is rather amusing.
I was with you all the way up to your example, and then I didn't know what mutatis mutandis meant and I changed my mind.
It's obviously a good thing that normal people be enabled to understand as much as possible of the laws that govern them, even at the expense of a little wasted ink. (Unfortunately in British law being able to read the legislation often won't get you very far anyway, because of case law).
Ha! Mine's not strong enough to say, though I suspect it would only be 3-4 words ('with-thanks-to .. for-the-reading-of' if you see what I mean).
I didn't mean that sentence amused me for uneconomical English, but that it was funny to think about a piece titled 'write like you talk' going through multiple draft stages.
I'd much rather we all spoke on first attempt like we write after thoughtful review.
I'm reminded of the (gradual) removal of all Latin from British legislation with a view to making it more 'accessible', at the obvious expense of the concise preciseness that the language afford: "with having changed the things requiring changing" is rather less economical than "mutatis mutandis".
In a slightly facetious sort of way, I also think the "thanks to .. for reading drafts of this" is rather amusing.