Zombie Verbs and Vampire Nouns

Stockmeyer, Norman

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Zombie Verbs and Vampire Nouns

Norman Otto Stockmeyer

Thomas M. Cooley Law School

The Scrivener, p. 7, Spring 2011

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This brief complaint against voguish denominal verbs and verbed nouns, by a past president of Scribes - The American Society of Legal Writers, is one of his occasional contributions to the Society's newsletter, The Scrivener. Another is "Summon Your Inner Kingsfield," http://ssrn.com/abstract=1673229.

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Keywords: legal writing, jargon

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Date posted: July 27, 2011

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Stockmeyer, Norman Otto, Zombie Verbs and Vampire Nouns. The Scrivener, p. 7, Spring 2011. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1894892

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