Today's Peeve Of The Day, Saturday 4th June. (how many, letter, legal)

[Jezer]

Good morning peevers and welcome to the weekend.

I had a meeting with a financial person yesterday and to be fair he was clear in what he said and I pretty much understood everything. Today I have a letter from a company about my pension fund and I must say I'm struggling with what some of it means.

Today's peeve is;

Trying to understand the mumbo-jumbo of documents.

[Gue]

It's over my head!

They sure don't make it easy to understand!

[bjh]

Just because you didn't refer to Line 12, Section C, Paragraph A, sub-paragraph C, Item 1 is no reason to be peeved.

[Caligula1]

Most of that crap is like reading chinese, Great Peeve!!

[Lucky Lady123]

Oh, that's a good one,Jezer. Why can't documents be short and to the point?

[Cunucu Beach]

I call it "legalese" and no one except their lawyers understand it.

[country pride]

Originally Posted by Jezer

Good morning peevers and welcome to the weekend.

I had a meeting with a financial person yesterday and to be fair he was clear in what he said and I pretty much understood everything. Today I have a letter from a company about my pension fund and I must say I'm struggling with what some of it means.

Today's peeve is;

Trying to understand the mumbo-jumbo of documents.

Good one! That's why I have someone else decipher for me!

[wit-nit]

I always ask a lot of questions. Sometimes I get an answer I don't like.

[JustJoy]

Originally Posted by Cunucu Beach

I call it "legalese" and no one except their lawyers understand it.

Exactly! You sure hit the nail on the head here. When questions are called interrogatories???

I wonder how many attorneys would go belly up if it was mandatory that all important documents be written in plain english.

[taigagirl]

I always read the fine print--but when the fine print is indecipherable cause of lingo-babble, it really annoys me. Simple plain language is all I need, but rarely what I see. Good peeve, Jezer. Thank you.