1. Clumsy English is not just a minor irritation.
The founder director of the Plain English Campaign, Chrissie Maher, says she took up the battle for crystal-clear language after two elderly women who had been baffled by a benefits form died of hypothermia. Even where it is not a matter of life and death, obscure English can deny young people their right to participate and stop them becoming the people they want to be.
2. Young people often complain about jargon, buzz words, acronyms, long-winded phrasing and other bamboozlements at meetings and in documents.
Many professions are famed for mystifying outsiders by expressing simple ideas in convoluted or unfathomable ways. Don't let youth work be one of them.
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