The bizarre conspiracy theory regarding the title "esquire"

[Skeptic]

@mindfu

Not a lawyer, and I’ve often enjoyed using the term “Esquire”, once I found out via dictionary that it literally means nothing.

Mostly meaningless, but you can get brought up on charges if you use it in a way that makes it seem like you are a lawyer licensed to practice law, such as someone in the law firm who’s a paralegal calling themselves Esquire in correspondence. Or a real estate agent calling themselves Esquire which might falsely imply they are a lawyer in addition to a realtor.

[NickyG]

@anon32019413

We shouldn’t wrestle too much trying to make sense of the unsound logic of crackpots.

This can be so easy to forget, for those of us endowed with reasoning skills. It’s just so tempting to try to explain it somehow! And there is a way of explaining the overall cult phenomenon logically, but the crazy insane BS dogma? It’s all hooey.

[mindfu]

Sure. I imagine similar could also result if I advertised myself as a genuine “law talking guy”.

[Gyrofrog]

@SheiffFatman

“esquire” is what you put on the envelope for any man who doesn’t have any other honorific. E.g., if you’re writing to plain old Mr John Smith, then you address the envelope to “John Smith, Esq.”

This is how I understood it, back in fifth grade, and I started signing my homework that way. However, I got the idea from Bugs Bunny.

[NickyG]

@Gyrofrog

I got the idea from Bugs Bunny.

Many a great undertaking, I imagine, has come about in such a way.