Sunday, December 18, 2005

Plain English. Isn't.

Read this article on text from the Plain English Campaign of examples of statements that make no sense.

I love this sort of thing. I'm surprised there are not more from the Government who love to write this sort of thing as part of their job. And, sadly, I found there were a couple I understood. What is happening to me?

I remember when I spent a large part of my work writing reports. The finished report was always rejected because it didn't read right. I fixed it by running through and changing the plain English for gobbledegook and making the structure more confusing. Worked every time. The customer? The MoD.

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