In plain language, teaching.
Johnstone and Gordon serve on a task force charged with rewriting jury instructions in plain language.
One tip-off: clumsy English instructions like "Plain table please you download".
Gift ideas include: bookmarks, framed family photos you have taken over the year, holiday cookies or breads, or "cookie kits" (the flour, sugar, baking powder, chocolate chips and other spices are layered in a plain Mason jar, and instructions attached to a piece of raffia or a ribbon letting them know what to add, whether it's water, oil, egg, or whatever).
"After the 1970s there was a real crackdown," said Blake Slemmer, a lifelong canner and self-described "homesteader" in Atlanta who translates the detailed U.S.D.A. instructions into plainer language on his Web site, www.pickyourown.org.org
California has just set up a task force, to which Mr Tiersma belongs, to put jury instructions into plainer language.Lawyers fret that any attempt to put statutory terms into ordinary English could make retrials more likely.
His sermons are plain-spoken, cadenced instruction, conversational chats that, he will say, "have everything but a fireplace in the back".
The computer industry is shameful in its inability to communicate simple instructions clearly in plain English.
One of the reports features a photo of shoppers walking down an escalator, their hands held above their heads, apparently under the instructions of a plain clothes police officer.
