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Ai assistance for Spen (the lawyer)
If there was a prize for being the most tedious ridiculous troll in the world I'd nominate you Spen, just as Bromptonaut quickly determined the other day when he called you a ''muppet''.
For anybody else, what I wrote is an example of 'code switching'. I used an example of what I called ''office speak'' in a context outside the space of that office.
This was recognised for anyone who cares to look it up by Basil Bernstein who called the formal language of the 'educated classes' a code he called ''elaborated'' code and he compared this with the language that operates within a group. He called this ''restricted code''.
I code switched. I introduced a term from restricted code into a setting where it might be less understood, because the elaborated legal code might be even less well understood - besides which it is wordy. Even if it was not clear to some in the forum, it should have been 'bleeding obvious' to someone who qualified as a solicitor.
But Spen is that annoying wasp that won't leave you alone while you eat your ploughmans in the pub garden, until finally all patience is lost and you swat it.
Spen is the kind of muppet who pretends that he doesn't know what BBC stands for and badgers you constantly to know what that means.
