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Originally Posted by CarylB
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refuse to dumb down their post for anyone
I find this statement itself patronising
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Well I have to agree with you Em (and Sin and Deb). My initial reaction when that was posted in reply to me was to feel I was being talked down to .. but as Sin says, sometimes that is not the writer's intention. So as I said, I blinked . then took a deep breath and did not respond with verbal abuse or name calling.
I'm know Gower's Guide to Plain English (from which I think the page you offered came from) well .. he was a Civil Servant driven mad by Civil Service jargonese and confusing language :) Simple and clear is I agree best .. although that dosn't mean it needs to be abrupt and delivered without thought to the other person's feelings, which is I think is really the basis of what most of us are saying |
Am I being thick here or wasn't it you that said that?
refuse to dumb down their post for anyone
Deb