Officials must not communicate with citizens in JIP-and-Jane language. That does not help.
That opinion was given the servants of the public Monday during a debate of the Dutch Language Union in Amsterdam.
Communications Specialist Ted Sanders of the University of Utrecht told not to believe in a greatly simplified language, with only short sentences and simple words. This so-called JIP-and-Jane language texts on complex subjects would be less intelligible. What helps, according to Sanders, is clarification of the relationship.
The citizen is not so much that there are too many incomprehensible words and phrases in government texts, but that are so impersonal. The official would be less need to write from an organization and more thinking along with his readers, so it was clear from the survey of the public Taalunie.
Officials are well aware of them. A survey of the Dutch Language Union show that they are more critical about their own texts than the average citizen.
That opinion was given the servants of the public Monday during a debate of the Dutch Language Union in Amsterdam.
Communications Specialist Ted Sanders of the University of Utrecht told not to believe in a greatly simplified language, with only short sentences and simple words. This so-called JIP-and-Jane language texts on complex subjects would be less intelligible. What helps, according to Sanders, is clarification of the relationship.
The citizen is not so much that there are too many incomprehensible words and phrases in government texts, but that are so impersonal. The official would be less need to write from an organization and more thinking along with his readers, so it was clear from the survey of the public Taalunie.
Officials are well aware of them. A survey of the Dutch Language Union show that they are more critical about their own texts than the average citizen.
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