The Plain English School

2023

• Jan 25 : How To Use The Oxford Comma To Eliminate Ambiguity

2022

• Dec 01 : Sentence Types and Ambiguity in Plain English
• Nov 03 : Why We Need Plain English More Than Ever Right Now
• Oct 27 : How to Use Grice’s Maxims To Communicate Better in Plain English
• Oct 20 : Why You Should Actually Use Double Negatives In Plain English
• Oct 13 : Why Recursion is Problematic in Plain English and How To Limit It
• Oct 06 : How To Remove Unnecessary Words In Plain English
• Sep 29 : How To Reduce “Of Nominalisation” In Plain English
• Sep 22 : Drop The Ego: Our Attitudes Towards Plain English
• Sep 15 : How to Limit Syntactic Ambiguity in Plain English
• Sep 08 : Prescriptivists vs. Descriptivists: How Not To Be A Language Jerk
• Sep 01 : Why We Should Use Singular They in Plain English
• Aug 25 : Why Formatting Your Texts Is Underrated And How To Do It Better
• Aug 18 : Let’s Get Personal About Personal Pronouns
• Aug 11 : Passive and Active Voice
• Aug 04 : Let’s Talk About Jargon
• Jul 28 : Don’t Raise Your Voice
• Jul 21 : Ever Heard of Nominalisation?
• Jul 14 : Repetition Is A Fool’s Game
• Jul 07 : Linguistic Chunking
• Jun 30 : Miscommunication Is Your Problem
• Jun 23 : Slowing Down
• Jun 16 : The Way You Communicate
• Jun 09 : Planning Your Text
• Jun 02 : Understanding Your Audience
• May 26 : Plain English: What It Is And Why It’s Important