Now, it seems, some kind of invisible points system operates among public servants and corporates to ensure the wordiest sentences are used, with extra marks if it is convoluted and for multi-syllabic words that none of us use. Even applying for a job, and wanting to ensure you’ve met all the criteria. How to fill out a new passport for a child, who has lost one. Or even find your insurance bill, and work out what is really included and what might be excluded. If you want a reminder, just go to the explanatory notes of a piece of legislation and see if you can then explain what it means to someone else. Imagine if that always happened if we could understand what someone in authority meant when they delivered a long thesis, filled with multi-syllabic words and complex sentences. In decades of covering court cases, it was a welcome judgement not only because Williams will spend 30 years in jail for the brutal murder of Tiffany Taylor – but because Justice Applegarth’s strong, plain language couldn’t be lost on anyone. The only ones who would – would be forensic psychiatrists.’’ Straight talking “Few 60-year-old women in their right minds would have found a creep like you interesting.
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