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NYS Covid Vaccine Form Earns a Go-Fix-Me

Posted on March 15, 2021October 5, 2021 by Public Linguist

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 […]

Emergency Preparedness Literacy – An addition to Mayor Bloomberg’s Resiliency Plan

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Public Linguist

I’m not quite Polly Anna-ish, and sometimes can find myself teetering on the edge of situational pessimism, but I do believe good things come from bad. This can be said of super-storm Sandy. We were struck dumb, frightened and lost. Many, many suffered greatly. Then and now, we’re recovering. All nature of good and great things […]