Re: [ADS-L] ADS-L o n Language Log

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Perhaps this is because companies hire English majors to do their writing,
naively thinking that English majors have been taught how to write clear and
lucid prose. Unfortunately, English majors have been taught to write like
professors of literature.

In a message dated 8/11/08 10:49:11 AM, cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET writes:


> Many instructions written by native speakers of American
> English manage equally obtuse constructions. Increasingly,
> I'm finding them on web pages, where the designers and their
> clue-writing colleagues _had_ no clue where navigations are
> concerned.
>




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