RE: A Push for Plain English

Subject: RE: A Push for Plain English
From: "Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>
To: <cupton -at- syclone -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:57:52 -0500

Somewhere George Orwell is smiling.

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Subject: A Push for Plain English

There's a good article in the Washington Post on a new bill requiring
government to use "plain" English:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/28/AR200710
2801146.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
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