Well, fred, brief it wasn�t. But would I give short measure when you have had the decency to openly declare the wind-up? And to admit to actually being regaled by my prolixity? My son says it�s �postcocious� of me to invite such embroilments by going on sites like this at all! But I also made a declaration: �Isn't this fun?�
I hope I gave as good as I got! I did try to make my imputations a match for your imputations, but the legal system you are no doubt so well-versed in is too adversarial for my liking. So no contest in that: I�m only sticking to my li�l ole linguistic last, whatever language we happen to be talking about. And we�d better have a pact that �legal Latin�, whatever that may be, if indeed it exists, should not be one of them. God knows what goes on in that! My lawyer said �You don�t want to know what goes on in these offices!� But we know all too well what can happen when an �expert� gets let loose in Court. I consented to be once, I hope without actual mayhem, but I brought the house down!
Sorry about my counteraccusation of contempt for your clients. The less said about that the better, but there is plenty of it in academe too, of course.
Please let me know if I am pushing my legal delusions a bridge too far by attempting to sum up. Given the above ecclesiastical pattern of �benedicas hisce creaturis tuis� (the food, btw, not the eaters, lest anyone should think these creatures are animate) and the similar conventions I have mentioned in the actual prayer books and other recommended formulae, I would demur to abandon my suggestion �Benedicat Deus amori nostro�, but if this couple are determined to go to the lengths of engraving the rings in Latin, there was never anything wrong with Qmr�s version �Benedicat Deus amorem nostrum.� But perhaps they don't think any of us have done enough 'checking around'.
Well guys, you got me back on the early shift this morning, didn�t you?