Another attempt at plain language

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Sun Sep 13 19:05:19 CEST 2015


Shawn Steele scripsit:

> Furthermore, it seems to me that most web sites are already writing
> to the audiences that they intend to target.  It’s difficult for me
> to imagine a cnn.com and a simple-cnn.com.

Not all resources are textual.  The Voice of America broadcasts both in
ordinary English and in Special English, which fits nicely into this
category of simple/plain/easy language: it not only limits vocabulary
but is spoken more slowly than VOA ordinary English.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
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