00:00and floxy nosy nihilipillification floxy nosy nihilipillification try saying it it's 29 letter
00:07long and it's now part of an indian court order the word is actually stitched together from four
00:13latin roots floxy nosy nihilipilli all of which individually mean of little or no value put
00:20together in the 18th century largely as kind of a linguistic joke where students at places like
00:24eaton college the word itself became an example of what it describes something excessive almost
00:30pointless and yet in 2026 it found its way into a courtroom in delhi while hearing a defamation
00:36complaint against nirmala sitaraman filed by lipika mitra judge paris talal used this very word to
00:41describe the case translation the complaint was not worth the court's time and that brings us back to
00:48the larger issue india's higher judiciary including the supreme court of india has repeatedly warned
00:53against exactly this kind of language in 2015 deepak mishra wrote a 192 word sentence in the case of
01:00priyanka shivastam versus state of up describing litigation as frivolous and an attempt to arm
01:05twist the other side even the supreme court of india has admitted there's a problem it has pulled
01:10up lower codes for judgments that are utterly incomprehensible judges themselves have called some
01:16rulings fatty long complex pleadings and judgments are increasingly seen as contributing to the rampant abuse
01:22of a procedural provision adding to judicial delays and costs recent rulings have stressed that the
01:28purpose of judicial writing is not to confuse or confound the reader behind the veneer of complex language
01:34what do you think
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