It isn't the way judges talk, nor the least like it.

You oughtn't to try and invent things, Callaghan.

You can't do it.

You haven't got any faculty for dramatic probability in characterisation.

That story of yours wouldn't go down with Major Kent, and what's the good of your offering it to me?
You may not know it, Callaghan, but I'm something of an expert in textual criticism.