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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8027)	8/31/2001 9:53:45 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Having never been to New Zealand, I have no idea whether the lawyers there speak gibberish, but I doubt it. In the United States, lawyers, like every other learned profession, use a specialized language when communicating with each other, where each specialized word represents a complex concept which they understand, but ignorant laymen may not. However, one of the most important thing a lawyer does is advise clients, so we are capable of explaining things to laymen, as well. It just takes more words, which are shorter and simpler. I suspect that your lawyers in New Zealand can explain legal concepts to you if they use words of one or two syllables. In the United States, engineers do not achieve their objectives using language. They are doers, builders, makers, planners, designers, and don't tend to be talkers, except with each other, where they use a specialized language that they understand. Firms which use engineers frequently hire people to translate what the engineers say into simpler words of one or two syllables which are easier for laymen to understand.