Every day, the NYS Court System interacts with people of all backgrounds, all skill sets and all education levels. Our materials, both in print and online, are only helpful if they are clear, concise and intelligible to all.

Bill Perritt is leading our effort to cleanse court materials of legalese, unnecessary jargon, confusing acronyms and bureaucratese.

Transcript: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/files/2022-07/Bill%20Perritt.pdf

Plain Speaking with Bill Perritt

Why I can't explain grammar but think it's really important for an editor to grasp at a sophisticated level — so she can retire the gavel.

What is your relationship with grammar? Have you found a working compromise? Can you draw how a bicycle works? Leave your comments below, or join the discussion over on the Dameditors Facebook page.

Adrienne Montgomerie is scieditor online. about.me/scieditor/ Her home blog is called Right Angels and Polo Bears. You can find it at http://blog.CatchTheSun.net.

Mentioned in this episode: 

•	James Harbeck’s Sesquiotica http://sesquiotic.wordpress.com
•	Ryerson Publishing Certificate http://ce-online.ryerson.ca/ce/default.aspx?id=2000
•	Karen Virag’s dangling modifiers http://blog.editors.ca/2014/01/in-memoriam/
•	Corina Kock-Macleod of Beyond Paper Editing http://beyondpaperediting.weebly.com
•	Cheryl Stephens’ Plain Language blog http://plainlanguagewizardry.blogspot.ca/2014/01/dont-i-care-about-grammar.html
•	zombie rules http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2013/10/09/the-guardian-opposes-zombie-rules/
•	This just in: A sound and clear grammar investigation into the zombie rule of less v. fewer http://blog.inkyfool.com/2014/02/less-fewers.html

The image for this episode is by chrisbb, used under CC BY 2.0 license. 

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