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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:30 pm
Post subject: "birdseed" a legal slang? |
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Hi I would like to know what the word birdseed means in this context:
A company is looking for an assistant and his/her responsibilities
include:
"Responsible for ensuring 100% accuracy of submissions to Legal
including all relevant trademarks/birdseed etc."
Another hint: the word "birdseed" appears before the legal notice
(copyrights) section of the same company's document
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Robert Lieblich
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:00 am
Post subject: Re: "birdseed" a legal slang? |
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hhgygy@gmail.com wrote:
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Hi I would like to know what the word birdseed means in this context:
A company is looking for an assistant and his/her responsibilities
include:
"Responsible for ensuring 100% accuracy of submissions to Legal
including all relevant trademarks/birdseed etc."
Another hint: the word "birdseed" appears before the legal notice
(copyrights) section of the same company's document
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I've never seen or heard the word "birdseed" used as a legal term, and
I've been a lawyer for almost forty years. Google offers no useful
information. Is it possible that the company's business includes
birdseed? I'd need more context before I could offer even a guess as
to the meaning.
BTW, idiomatic English does not put an article before "slang." Your
subject line should read: "Is 'birdseed' legal slang?"
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Bob Lieblich
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Don Phillipson
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:42 pm
Post subject: Re: "birdseed" a legal slang? |
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<hhgygy@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1127748604.421358.297170@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
| Quote: | "Responsible for ensuring 100% accuracy of submissions to Legal
including all relevant trademarks/birdseed etc."
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Possible malapropism here, confusing:
chickenfeed = trivial but true information, revealed to earn trust;
boilerplate = uniform text, integral to every contract or similar
legal document.
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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