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NYS Covid Vaccine Form Earns a Go-Fix-Me

NYS Covid Vaccine Form Earns a Go-Fix-Me

I’m starting up GO FIX ME installments on this blog.  The mission – no less than purging our land of public health communication filled with self-involved, gratuitous, gobbledygook language, that makes it difficult and often impossible for readers to understand and take action.   (How’s that for a mission!) Here’s my first specimen and I’m hoping […]

Liberal Media Fails to Learn From TrumpSpeak

Over the last two years any number of critics have pounced on the simple stupid of Trump speak. The Atlantic’s 2018 piece,  “How to Speak Like Trump: A short guide to speaking the president’s dialect” is a fine example. Writer Kurt Andersen says, tongue in cheek, “I spent weeks studying transcripts of his interviews and press […]

Painfully Tortured New Privacy Statements

Why are all those new privacy statements piling up in your Inbox?  Didn’t you hear – this is the New Age of Privacy. And in the spirit of full disclosure, so illusive these days, I thought I’d share a lingust’s take on the often painfully tortured privacy statements crafted to assure us that our data […]

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