Found a really good article on writing today

[library lasciel]

It's aimed at journalism students for whom English is a second language, but it's the most clear and concise rendering of all the faults of 'legalese' that I've ever seen, and I think it's a good guide to all sorts of writing, not simply journalism.

Here's the article http://www.theamericanscholar.org/writing-english-as-a-second-language/

Hope you find it interesting/useful!

[comprex]

Heh.  If I even tried to get rid of such things as the distinction between processing (generating results from raw input) and reconciliation (making the results of the new process agree with the results of the old process),  I'd be put out to pasture.   

Edit: Make that 'even thought about trying'.

[KarlTenBrew]

[edit] what the hell is my computer doing? wrong thread.  Insert discussion about how diversifed vocabulary is also a STRENGTH of English, and how it is 'super-alive' in that it is constantly changing by use.

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

A good pen-name is exactly eight characters long, so that you can use it as a directory name on even an old MS-DOS machines to keep which of your projects go under which name sensibly separate.