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trickykitty) wrote2011-05-28 10:38 am
trickykitty) wrote2011-05-28 10:38 am
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Some of the daily dictionary.com articles, spotlights, and flash cards are pretty interesting.
They are also somewhat scary - this is how Idiocracy starts it's world-wide movement.
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Oh, and incidentally, I actually agree with the Plain Writing Act, to a point. That being said, if we're going to make government documents read just like how +/- 2 standard deviations of the population talks, I'd still re-word the example presented at the end of that article a bit further:
You don't get to get paid for the same claim twice, dumbass. If you try to pull one over on us, you're going to have to pay us back.
Rider: You're the reason we have to write this shit out into red tape documents in the first place. Cut that shit out!
They are also somewhat scary - this is how Idiocracy starts it's world-wide movement.
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Oh, and incidentally, I actually agree with the Plain Writing Act, to a point. That being said, if we're going to make government documents read just like how +/- 2 standard deviations of the population talks, I'd still re-word the example presented at the end of that article a bit further:
You don't get to get paid for the same claim twice, dumbass. If you try to pull one over on us, you're going to have to pay us back.
Rider: You're the reason we have to write this shit out into red tape documents in the first place. Cut that shit out!