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Originally Posted by Moejoe
What audience?
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Re-quoting myself "One writes to communicate with their audience, not to confuse them."
Whenever you write something for public consumption, you are writing to an audience. To write well and effectively, you have to identify who that audience is, and write in a manner that communicates to them-- else you either will not get your intended message across or you will turn your audience away. That is Writing 101.
An example coincidentally
showed up on the front page of CNN.com this morning (after I had made the comments) where someone is claiming that President Obama's recent speech-- said to be at a grade level of 9.8-- was too difficult for much of the target audience (which says very sad things about the American public, but is doubtlessly trure.)