Show ENGLISH OF SUPREME COURT justices of highest tribunal often use ungrammatical language on the bench there Is a delicious reminder 0 boyhood grammatical breaks in the questioning by the honored justices of 0 the supreme court remarked william R maddock of boston at the willard Wll lard during my frequent trips to washington I 1 have visited the supreme court often listening to arguments and the questions put to lawyers by the grave and solemn members of the court with so much formality and dignity surrounding the famous tribunal I 1 have wondered a little at the breaking of the rules of syntax by the justices aho vho bo know better and would never dream of incorporating their offhand remarks in a written deats decision ion it Is IB not unusual to hear a justice use the expression he dont and they aint is quite as often used without jarring on the nerves of the attending lawyers and without causing the fellow justices to smile the justices know better and they also know that there are more serious infractions of grammatical laws in the nearby house bouse of representatives every day of the session 1 I heard beard one big lawyer who bad noticed the grammatical breaks one day remark that the kapsus linguai may be consequently thought atavistic now just what this lawyer meant by this sentence I 1 cannot explain and I 1 would prefer the good old fashioned colloquial methods of the justices even if they do violate a aze or mary grammar washington post |