Thank you, Chris, for verbalizing something I have been feeling for
some time. Lately, if I pick up a general or interest or "youth
oriented" magazine I find that many times I cannot read it. There are
sentences and words I recognize, but I am not certain whether anything
was said in what I read. Certainly not in the few sentences I get
through before looking further on for some content. I am reduced to
looking at the images that somehow seem tied to the advertising. If
was unable to read a newspaper, novel, or non fiction book I might
think it was the onset of Alzheimers. I don't really understand what
is going on unless it is just payment by the word editors being
replaced by spell check or that text is just a decorative device to
frame the pictures.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / November 26, 2007 CE, at 11:38 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> I'm sure it is an interesting story, Ali, but I find it sooo difficult
> to read something written in that ghastly style! It's the way it's
> split into simple concepts as if to keep things easy for the reader.
> And the truly cr*ppy use of tenses!
>
> I know, I should be able to get the meaning and not worry about the
> style or the English, but it is so awful!
>
> And the BBC website is starting to use a similar style!
>
> And the UK's IRS equivalent managed to lose 25m addresses!
>
> The whole world is going mad, or bad ...
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