Tip for the academically-inclined who don't want to be accused of elitism:

Just because you say something is a 'fallacy' or a 'tautology' doesn't mean you've won the argument.

On the contrary, you might be trying to hide behind big words because you're scared of losing the argument.

#academia
#science
#elitism
#debate
#PlainEnglish

#PlainEnglish: The ugly #truth about #Kissinger is that he isn’t a #unique #monster. He is an unusually plainspoken #representative of a #monstrous #system of US global #hegemony

https://jacobin.com/2023/05/henry-kissinger-100th-birthday-us-foreign-policy

Why Everybody Is Wrong About a Recession and Housing’s Great Comeback
https://www.theringer.com/2023/2/14/23598850/why-everybody-is-wrong-about-a-recession-and-housings-great-comeback
#RealEstate #Recession #PlainEnglish

"Our exploratory research points to deconstructed transitional mobility."

Fancy a go on the Gobbledygook generator, too? 😁

https://plainenglish.co.uk/gobbledygook-generator.html

#PlainEnglish #ContentWriter #BitOfFun #xl8

@willreid This links to a wider point about the need for 'two word acronyms' at all.
Scientific papers should avoid them at all costs, certainly not invent new ones. It is all done because of word-counts, but you can always save words in other ways.
#jargon #plainenglish

A quote promoting both plain language and editorial skill:

“Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn’t be there.” – William Zinsser

#PlainEnglish #PlainLanguage #AmEditing #Writing #Editing #Proofreading

By about 2057, my prediction is that the Microsoft Word grammar checker will have finally vanquished the phrase 'in order to' and made it extinct. #grammar #plainenglish #wordcount

#PlainEnglish summary from Harry Hampel's group on the use of Lumbar Puncture. There are loads of them. Are these like the opposite of @deevybee 's AI Mangleglot sets? Imagine a version for me and a version for the patient and family 😲
https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/full/10.2217/nmt-2022-0012?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org

Last month, the 2022 #IgNobel for literature went to the U of Edinburgh team that measured what makes legal documents unintelligible, “to know empirically: how bad is it?”

No surprise. It's not the legal concepts but poor writing that makes legal documents hard to grasp.

https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/poor-writing-not-specialized-concepts-drives-processing-difficult

#ContentDesign #cd #ux #content #writing #usability #law #PlainLanguage #PlainEnglish