Kant falls foul of the Plain English movement
am 04.12.2006 von Transblawg
The Plain English Campaign don't like Kant. Perhaps they should try Hegel.
Germaine Greer writes:
The campaign's press officer, the ruggedly monosyllabic Ben Beer, informed me as plain Ms Greer - no honorifics - of my unlooked-for good fortune thus: “I am writing on behalf of the Plain English Campaign with the news that you have won one of our infamous 'Golden Bull' awards this year. The award is for a sentence published in your Guardian article published on October 23 2006 … some of our supporters …
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Lawyers avoiding the passive/Vermeidung des Passivs
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Canadian multilingual legal glossary/Glossar kanadisches Rechtsenglisch
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