Yes, thanks, Joel, I shall read it at leisure. I can (nearly)
match that, Piers: I am "adjusting" the English of a Czech friend who
writes books about military helicopters. He used to fly Hinds for
the Czech Republic and is keen on all sorts of helos.
Chris
On 23 Nov 2006, at 14:34, Piers Hemy wrote:
> Bravo, Joel, that is excellent stuff (though I can't agree your
> suggestion
> of the olfactory evidence of sanity).
>
> Orwell's six rules are pithily put, and completely appropriate. I am
> currently spending much of my time rendering lawyerly English into
> a form
> understandable by one whose mother tongue is not English - and he
> is just
> the translator - and how I wish that Orwell's words could be found
> in a law
> library.
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