Talk:IANAL

message: I added the link to wikipedia:legal advice so that if people say "blah blah blah, but IANAL...", then the link is helpful. Martin — Preceding undated comment added 22:31, 20 May 2003‎ 
:I anal? Shouldn't that read I am anal? --Dante Alighieri 19:36 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)
:: It's for "I'm anal" :) Martin  — Preceding undated comment added 19:53, 28 June 2003‎ 
:::So... IANAL is an acronym for "Martin's anal"? ;) --Dante Alighieri 20:07 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)
   Editors concerned about edits to this talk page (all, as it happens, part of the humor to which this section consists of) that are not documented as to time and editor  by the time-stamps and sigs placed by those corresponding editors may want to note the following:
#   An (offensive &) misplaced contrib (that would at least have been correctly placed in this section) was added at 17:44, 8 February 2006‎ by Keenan Pepper and removed at 05:00, 24 March 2006‎ by Rhobite.
#   (Merely sophmoric) nonsense added at 21:52, 14 March 2006‎ by 82.41.169.206 was removed in an edit i'm not bothering to track down.
#   A (slightly clever, but) off-topic talk response, via 2 edits at 14:39, 5 December 2006‎ by 201.239.182.145, was removed at 14:54, 5 December 2006‎ by Utcursch
--Jerzy•t 07:13, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''[Talk editors just wanna have fun]'' 

message: Wikipedia is not a dictionary, much less a dictionary of net slang. Someone should VFD this. -- Tarquin 20:26, 26 Oct 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: better than deletion would be a redirect to wikipedia:legal advice, imo. Martin 21:29, 26 Oct 2003 (UTC)

text: Google disagrees by a factor of 20 [IANAL is much more common].  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.47.121.233 (talk) 18:26, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

text: People love to talk about time travel and teleportation even though they have no idea what they're talking about. —Keenan Pepper 17:44, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Why would a non-lawyer ever talk about law? --Malirath 18:53, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've also seen IANACR for "I Am Not A Commodities Regulator", but doubt it could be sourced well enough to add to the article.  14:41, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''[Retain?]'' 

message: IAALBOAHL is not sourced. I can find no definition. I'll cut it in hopes another can define.  rewinn 22:34, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added my speculation as to what it abbreviates as part of the section title, in adding a heading for his section.--Jerzy•t 07:13, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''[I am a lawyer, but only a hack lawyer] '''['''??''']''' '' 

message: How about a link to the Star Trek phrase, I'm a doctor, not a .... Seems to me this is clearly derived from the Star Trek phrase. 85.217.44.99 (talk) 08:08, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: For the record, i did consider making this a subsection of the "fun" section (separate from what would have become the "Anatomical fun" subsection). Arguably i am speaking ill of a colleague by assuming they did not intend to lighten our day with a bit of lame parody.--Jerzy•t 07:13, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''[Off on a tangent]'' 

message: Where someone legally must give notice that they are not a lawyer, they must give notice in a way calculated to deliver that notice to its audience. The main exception would be if a court or government administrative agency has, by a written opinion or rule, approved another way. An initialism generally does not meet that requirement, even if it's customary within certain groups of people who may not include the ones you need to reach, such as casual readers of an Internet thread who don't recognize the initialisms. None of the initialisms in this article meet that requirement. Full words must be used. It's unlikely that a court or agency has approved an exception for an initialism. I plan momentarily to edit this article accordingly. Some of the statements that are to the contrary appear to be unsourced and no source that I saw supported allowing an initialism as notice so calculated. Nick Levinson (talk) 01:34, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  notice generally must be in words