[U.S.] Government adjusts prior complex wordy and generally unintelligible jargon down in and to [the] simple things previously seen, made and known to be unnecessarily complicated for the sake of addressing each minutia.

Does this mean that new styled writers will be employed? Because to write that way takes a certain skill. I can't even do it right. It's way over the top and completely ridiculous. I can't even pull off a straight pan even if money and beneficial odds pointing my way were on the line. (I'd slap myself and straighten my ass out for sure though.)

But seriously, I can't write like that. I thought the government prided itself on the jargon. Lawyers jerk off to sentences like that. There's a reason why it is that way. So that the secret code between two wink-winks of lawyers will be sustained.

Oct 1, 2007:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives.

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S. 2291: Plain Language in Government Communications Act of 2007

A bill to enhance citizen access to Government information and services by establishing plain language as the standard style of Government documents issued to the public, and for other purposes.

Nov 6, 2007:
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13985-13986)

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Congress is poised to pass good legislation to outlaw government gobbledygook.

will require government agencies to write many future documents in plain language: language that is clear, concise, and easy to understand

underway since the 1970’s

clipped from www.govtrack.us H.R. 3548: Plain Language in Government Communications Act of 2007 To enhance citizen access to Government information and services by establishing plain language as the standard style for Government documents issued to the public, and for other purposes.

Introduced

Sep 17, 2007

Introduced

Nov 1, 2007