is this legal speak acceptable? Forum

[HyeMart]

\\ is legislations an acceptable plural form of legislation

[dakatz]

i use the word 'legislations'

do lawyers or law professors see something wrong with this

basically, is legislations an acceptable plural form of legislation

I've never used the plural like that. You can always rephrase it as to make this unnecessary. Give me any sentence where you would use "legislations" and I can find a way to make it so you don't have to use that plural.

[HyeMart]

i've already used it is the issue

[GeePee]

Just use "pieces of legislation."

[HyeMart]

if a lawyer saw 'legislations' would he think i was dumb

[sundance95]

if a lawyer saw 'legislations' would he think i was dumb

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=plural+of+legislation&l=1

He might think you are dumb because you can't use a search engine.

[HyeMart]

what do you want me to google?

i know it is grammatically incorrect, i want to know if its something zomg for a lawyer to see

[sundance95]

i know it is grammatically incorrect

Then what, dear sir, is the fucking point of your fucking thread, if I may ask?

[HyeMart]

is it acceptable to see....

i noticed some newspapers used it, i picked up on it, then i noticed again those newspapers were from sudan, now i want to know if the lawyers i've sent things using 'legislations' would pick up on it being wrong.

i was wondering if anyone here would find offense if they saw the word.

[sundance95]

is it acceptable to see....

i noticed some newspapers used it, i picked up on it, then i noticed again those newspapers were from sudan, now i want to know if the lawyers i've sent things using 'legislations' would pick up on it being wrong.

i was wondering if anyone here would find offense if they saw the word.

No. Put it in all your cover letters.

[HyeMart]

give up.

[MrKappus]

\\ is legislations an acceptable plural form of legislation

Under no circumstances is it acceptable. hth.

[LurkerNoMore]

Best case scenario: it will be seen as a typo and might be overlooked. (When discussing the legislations...)

Worst case scenario: it will be glaring and jump off the page. (The legislations are ....)

Hopefully you didn't use it in a way that you have verb agreement that will draw attention to the fact you intended to use the (non)word.

Sorry.