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Write in plain English, Use Plain Language Guideline (Omit superfluous words)) #187

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martynka opened this issue Sep 4, 2020 · 2 comments

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@martynka
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martynka commented Sep 4, 2020

https://www.sec.gov/pdf/handbook.pdf
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Change superfluous: "in order to", to simpler: "to".

One of the examples:
4.7.5.4 More Details, first bulleted text.
"Pauses are important between phrases in order to allow processing time of language and options. "

Could sound simpler: “Pauses are important between phrases to allow processing time of language and options. "

Change superfluous: "prior to", to simpler: "before ".
The last sentence of the second paragraph:
"This document is ready for wide review prior to finalization as a Working Group Note."
Could sound simpler: "This document is ready for wide review to finalization as a Working Group Note."

There are more examples like this in the document.

@rachaelbradley
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rachaelbradley commented Sep 20, 2020

Thank you for writing with these suggestions. We have made these changes in the 15_February_Issues branch which will be merged in before publication.

@ruoxiran
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Fixed in PR #239

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