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May 19, 2011, 10:11 PM
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Member Since: May 2011
Location: Los Angeles CA
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110519/ap_on_re_us/us_no_more_gobbledygook
From the article:
The federal government is rolling out a new official language of sorts: plain English. That's right: Pursuant to regulations promulgated thereunder and commencing in accordance with a statute signed herein by President Barack Obama, the government shall be precluded from writing the pompous gibberish heretofore evidenced, to the extent practicable. That sentence contains 11 new language no-nos. Obama signed the Plain Writing Act last fall after decades of effort by a cadre of passionate grammarians in the civil service to jettison the jargon. It takes full effect in October, when federal agencies must start writing plainly in all new or substantially revised documents produced for the public. The government will still be allowed to write nonsensically to itself.
Didn't we have this in the Carter Administration? And the forms are still written in nonsense.
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