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RE: Another attempt at plain language

"Doug Ewell" <doug@ewellic.org> Fri, 11 September 2015 18:41 UTC

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From: Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org>
To: Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>, CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>, Tobias Bengfort <tobias.bengfort@posteo.de>, "ietf-languages@iana.org" <ietf-languages@iana.org>
Subject: RE: Another attempt at plain language
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:40:34 -0700
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Shawn Steele <Shawn dot Steele at Microsoft dot com> wrote:

> Who wants to tag things in this way?  (Whatever the definition is?)

Tobias asked for this to be able to indicate that a web page is written
to comply with W3C accessibility guidelines.

IMHO that points rather strongly toward "simple language" in the sense
of being understandable by young, second-language, or less intelligent
readers, not "plain language" in the sense of avoiding legalistic "party
of the first part, party of the second part" jargon and circumlocution.

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