India’s Spoken Language Contrasts Sharply With Administrative And Legal Language
After rejecting the Himachal Pradesh high court's "incomprehensible" verdict, the Supreme Court made a call for "brevity, simplicity, and clarity" across all levels of government. In the HC division bench judgement, one may find gems such as "contra thereto, became adduced by him, and he was thus ordered to dispel the factum" and "the ire res-controversia, exploding interse the plaintiffs, belongs to findings adverse to the workman." If the significance of this nonsense were not so grave, it would be amusing. The governing class of premodern societies confused the administrative language of design. This remained even after the so-called "modernization" began. In various Western democracies, efforts have been made over the last two decades or more to modernise and simplify the vocabu...
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