ATLA, AAJ and the inky cuttlefish

The editors of the Los Angeles Times are not impressed by the decision of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America to change its name to the American Association for Justice (AAJ), and quote Orwell: “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity,” he wrote. “When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s […]

The editors of the Los Angeles Times are not impressed by the decision of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America to change its name to the American Association for Justice (AAJ), and quote Orwell: “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity,” he wrote. “When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” (“A Trial Lawyer by Any Other Name” (editorial), Aug. 11) (via Wallace). See Jul. 28 (“kitten fish”), etc.

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