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>Perhaps I'm just feeling irritable this morning, but I can't help
feeling patronized.<
Sorry if my phraseology caused offence.
I guess what I was trying to say was that I agree with Ann Gavriel but was
a bit surprised that her views came over as apparently heretical.
I keep coming across people (and I easily do it myself) who write as if
they were in academia when writing business letters, product descriptions
(aimed at dyslexic people), help files, program documentation etc. I am
sure that the language they use is not appropriate in their present
context, and that the Campaign for Plain English would be a better model.
But where should they learn to write clearly and plainly if not at
University? I had hoped that "good English" was now a more efficient,
communicative and less exclusive genre than it was when I was at
University, and that people teaching writing would be working towards
making it so. Why should academic English be so different from plain
English? Or isn't it?
Regards
Ian Litterick
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