I happened to read a post on 'simple English':
I sometimes agree with this entirely. Every profession has its own lingo, but IT professionals seem to go overboard with their peculiar choice of expression. Before anybody gets me wrong, let me clarify that I am also an IT professional. I have a very strong urge to shout whenever I hear such incomprehensible collation of words that can better be expressed in simple words! The last sentence is an example!
There is a plain English campaign in the UK which has taken on itself to cleanse the system that uses gobbledygook (I hope i spelt it right!). Legal profession is a prime target for them. Can you believe that they have forced many government organization and insurance companies to change their documents so that they could be understood by common man? They did just that. They have also published some very useful publications that can be downloaded from their website.
I have similar grievance against some Tamil writers too. I have no way to guage how many people care about it. They need to read Kalki, Thevan etc to understand what simplicity is all about.
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Hi Again!
The objective of any writing is that it should reach the common man. There are writers who use such flowery language and high end vocabulary that the main objective of "reaching the common man" is lost.
I wish there could be more writers who serenade the masses with their simple writing!
vidhya
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