Plain Language

Interesting blog today: Plain Language Doesn’t Have to Be Plain
https://www.govloop.com/community/blog/plain-language-doesnt-plain/

Plain language can be engaging, fun, and insightful. It can be relatable, understandable, and, perhaps most importantly, interesting. Using plain language is one of the easier ways to make government (and its…[Read more]

GOV GOBBLEDYGOOK AND HOW TO CHANGE IT, by Camilla Nawaz:
https://www.govloop.com/gov-gobbledygook-change/

There’s a million witty words for bureaucratic language…. gobbledygook, gibberish, mumbo-jumbo, jargon, double-talk, bureaucratese, technobabble! There are probably so many words for it because it’s such a widespread, and exasperating, probl…[Read more]