Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Plain English Day
Yesterday was Plain English Day where the Campaign for Plain English encourages people and organisations to stop talking in jargon, clichés and other kinds of drivel and, well, talk properly.
Take a wander round the Plain English website. They have a drivel detector you can use to check your own or others' prose, a quiz to test your own knowledge of grammar, and a wide range of other language related stuff. There's a series of videos about how the campaign got established in the Sixties by a working class Liverpudlian. Oh...and they have some great examples of times where speakers use of English hasn't quite hit the mark:-
Take a wander round the Plain English website. They have a drivel detector you can use to check your own or others' prose, a quiz to test your own knowledge of grammar, and a wide range of other language related stuff. There's a series of videos about how the campaign got established in the Sixties by a working class Liverpudlian. Oh...and they have some great examples of times where speakers use of English hasn't quite hit the mark:-
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Death is normally final, but the ramifications of the deaths of some people can go on for some time. E.g. the deaths of A. Hitler and J. Stalin had ramification. Mainly to the good.
As for retaining the less important parts of your life after dying through smoking-related illness, it is harder to make sense of this. Maybe it has to do with offering up the diseased and addled heart and lungs for medical research – but then that could be useful. (Brooke was a actress anyway, with an excellent pair of eyebrows).
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Just for balance can I remind you of George W. Bush and Dorothy Parker?
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