[Gidzmo]

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.

[Perna]

Clinton had a couple about regulations but not law for the whole Gov like this one is:

http://www.plainlanguage.gov/plLaw/index.cfm

[Gidzmo]

Originally Posted by Perna

Clinton had a couple about regulations but not law for the whole Gov like this one is:

http://www.plainlanguage.gov/plLaw/index.cfm

But will the government actually abide by this....or will they just ignore it?

[ECHOES]

Didn't we have this in the Carter Administration? And the forms are still written in nonsense.

...so we should never again attempt to address this and make it work so that regulations can be more readily understood?

[Gidzmo]

Originally Posted by ECHOES

...so we should never again attempt to address this and make it work so that regulations can be more readily understood?

Oh, I'm not saying don't work towards it. I just thought that this had been addressed before in a previous administration.

[Perna]

It's literally law (has never been before, has just been "recommendations"), they must obey http://www.plainlanguage.gov/plLaw/law/index.cfm

They're even supposed to "test" to make sure it's written according to the guidelines:

http://www.plainlanguage.gov/howto/g...elines/TOC.cfm