[AMRadio] Now: language use

[Eddy Swynar]

On 2011-12-02, at 1:55 PM, Jim Wilhite wrote:
> 
> My wife did her thesis in the mid-80s.  Her adviser finally told her to 
> write at the 6th grade level so an adequate audience could read and 
> comprehend the content.  What has happened to setting an example in the 
> field of higher education?
> 
Hi Jim,

When I was still in the working world, during the course of one of my annual performance reviews / appraisals my supervisor told me that my memos & notes were far too difficult for her to read, and that I should (literally) "...dumb them down."

I told her that whenever I'd issue something in writing, to me I represented the company for that moment---to dumb anything down like that, I said, was akin to dumbing down the place we worked for. 

Anyway, I never wavered one iota---but the company came to within a hair's breadth of declaring bankruptcy a few years ago...

So much for the merits of "...dumbing down."

Anyway, this is a Reflector about AM radio, NOT social commentary! I've said my last on the subject...

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ