Thursday, July 17, 2008

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The other day I came across a letter of acceptance of the UNED. After a two-paragraph report of registration deadlines and procedures, concluded with the following paragraph:

against this resolution, which exhausts administrative action may be brought may optionally reset to the Chancellor within one month, or administrative appeal before the Central Court of Administrative Disputes within two months (...).
What? Raise your hand if you have understood a word. I am sure that at least nine of every ten people who read this text does not have any idea what you mean. I'm talking about an issue that I mentioned in passing in one of my recent entries : the incomprehensible language usually employed by public agencies to communicate with the public. Very often, the information available to the public in brochures or on the Internet often copiapega simple legislation. There is no effort to express in a manner accessible to all audiences, and I'm sure this is particularly harmful to those with lower educational level or just come out and have not yet mastered our language.

In the United Kingdom is rarely the case. Of course, there are many places where English is used as far-fetched, but usually when a public or private organization speaks to you like that is reasonably understandable. In fact, in this country there is even an organization with very hearth which aims to promote plain language in communication with the public. It Plain is the Inglés Campaign, and a diamond logo appears in many forms and brochures public entities and private . On their website you can find a very interesting document that gives guidelines on how to write plain English. Many recommendations refer to the grammar or the peculiarities of this language, but most are extensible to other languages \u200b\u200blike English, write in short sentences, avoid passive voice, use the first and second person, etc..

More information:
Inglés Campaign Plain

Saturday, July 5, 2008

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Clear as mud I'm still here! Biba

I have moved home. This involves going through a series of situations, such as having to stay one day to eat at the Ikea (those Swedish meatballs, ugh!), And of course the complete lack of free time, which is to be used to organize a little chaos now plaguing my new apartment.

If we join the lack of home Internet connection because of the incompetence of Telefónica, who two weeks after applying I have not yet managed to make the transfer online, it is clear that the conditions are not conducive to regularly posting to the blog.

My apologies to readers. Parquestrit return promise as soon as possible.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

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song chart memes do not need to spend much time living in England to realize that the spelling is not one of the strengths of the British. At work at once I saw that foreigners used to write more correct than natives. The errors observed were confused star ITS (possessive) and it's (contraction of it is ), and we'll with will. also cost them much to find the correct number of double consonants in certain words (such as accommodation or Occurrence), or know what voice is in certain unstressed syllables ( Ensure and insure ).

course, many of these difficulties we have had foreigners have had to learn English, but strangely my impression is that we often finish our English language studies with a very acceptable spelling, I would say even better than a Middle English. In our favor is, of course, that many English words of Latin origin are written in a similar way in our language.

For me, during the first months that my fluency with the language was quite unfortunate to see that my written language was more correct than the office mates around me was a source of comfort although with time-based read and write e-mails written in haste I was hitting many inaccuracies.

More information:
The 25 Most Common misspelled words (test)

Sunday, June 8, 2008

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A little later I learned that the BBC has issued a couple of months second season of "That Mitchell & Webb Look ". these great comedians I spoke last year at this blog , and I take this opportunity to again strongly recommend (a person having good English listening, I'm afraid). In the new season can be seen as funny sketches like this (very topical now that we're in the Championship).

Another really good thing is also that other that morbid parody of Channel Five documentary.

available on YouTube many sketches of Mitchell & Webb. The full episodes are available on DVD, and on the Internet on a more informal.