# Checking to see if a legal/marketing term is common knowledge **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 24, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-to-see-if-a-legal-marketing-term-is-common-knowledge/918917 "2020-08-24T19:45:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-to-see-if-a-legal-marketing-term-is-common-knowledge/918917/41 "2020-08-26T15:13:52Z")
I didn’t learn the term “puffery” until law school. And incidentally, I didn’t learn it in a class; I learned it in the course of a volunteer project called Street Law. It involved a few volunteer lawyers from the community working with law students to go to some inner-city schools to give a short presentation on a specific topic, with the goal of getting the kids interested in the law and making the profession seem more accessible. Our topic was about just this subject: the line between false advertising and mere puffery. The kids seemed really engaged, I know I had a lot of fun, and now there’s a group of about 20-some-odd 20-somethings out there in the world who have known the term since middle school. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-to-see-if-a-legal-marketing-term-is-common-knowledge/918917/42 "2020-08-26T19:20:42Z")
This is all makes sense to me (and selling what you have versus what you hope to have can be difficult). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-to-see-if-a-legal-marketing-term-is-common-knowledge/918917.md?page=2)