Friday, January 15, 2010

Legalese

Sometimes lawyers earn their reputation for linguistic puffery. I just learned from a synopsis of the 1971 case of Gizzi v. Texaco that Texaco, an oil company, "in its advertising, urged reliance on men wearing such oil company's insignia." Do tell. For the young or culturally illiterate, the case is referring to the jingle in this commercial (about 35 seconds in).

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