Improving the FAQ - Plain English

[boris]

Thank you @CodaCoder & @jeremyruston for suggestions on Plain English

@jeremyruston

@CodaCoder

Native English Speakers: Please post in friendly, easily translated English (no txt-speke, right m8?). Nobody is going to search for your garbled text, so please don’t use it in your posts.

To expand on that, perhaps something like:

“Our discussions are in English. It is not the first language of many people in the community, nor do we all share the same cultural background and reference points. So we take care to use language that is clear and unambiguous, and avoid cultural references or jokes that will not be widely understood.”

I have added this to the top of the FAQ FAQ - Talk TW

@moderators can further edit this, and anyone can make suggestions in this thread.

[CodaCoder]

At the end of that paragraph…

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[boris]

It took me a minute to figure out what you meant. Take a look?

[CodaCoder]

Oh the irony… I thought I wrote that in plain English