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That seems even worse!

Jargon (sometimes) isn't just obfuscation; it carries important shades of meaning that would be tedious to spell out every time. 'Homicide' and 'murder', for example, are sometimes used interchangeably, but are not actually legally interchangeable. You would not want your involuntary manslaughter plea upgraded to murder, a more serious--and therefore more severely punished offense.

You could, of course, try to train "unskilled labor" to detect things like that. By the time you are done, the labor won't be unskilled and you will have reinvented the paralegal.



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