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Legalese is the special English that lawyers and law papers use, the kind that is hard for most people to read. It likes long sentences, old words, and set phrases that mean one exact thing in court. People say legalese when they find that writing heavy, or when they feel someone is hiding a simple idea behind law words. It is usually a slightly joking or tired word, not a compliment. Though actually, some of those stiff phrases are there because the law needs to be exact, so one small word cannot be twisted later.
艱澀的法律用語
組成From legal + -ese. English uses -ese for languages of places (Chinese, Japanese) and, in a jokey way, for a thick style of writing.
同家族的字
- legalthe first half: about the law
- journalesesame -ese ending for a thick style of writing
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
legalesenoun/ˌliː.ɡəˈliːz/
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derogatoryinformalTechnical jargon common in the legal profession; the argot of lawyers.
- It is also his considered opinion that a condition precedent to any legislative action is that those best qualified to pronounce on the merits of a popular demand examine it in all its aspects. That is good Menzian legalese, as pompous as parody permits.
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derogatoryinformalWordy, ostentatious talk or writing that resembles legal writing, especially when confusing to laypeople; bureaucratese; officialese.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。