On 23/02/13 08:52, Huge wrote:
On 2013-02-23, Arfa Daily wrote:


"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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whisky-dave wrote
Dave Liquorice wrote
Mark wrote

I agree there are some sites that are trustworthy.
However, take NHS direct, for example. It is so dumbed
down and simplified it's pretty much useless IMHO.

By heck it is. I don't look at it very often, if at all, but some
one posted a link elsewhere. That page was awful, any word
that was even vaugely "difficult" had a simple explanation
in brackets after it. Things like "incision (small cut)". Made
reading the information very much harder that it should be.

Makes you wonder why they use the word
incison rather than small cut, any ideas ?

They stupidly believe it reads better.

Same reason cops use fancy words when giving evidence in court.

This a web page FFS! Link the "difficult" words to a glossary
entry or is clicking a word to "difficult" as well? If so have a
the text that would be in the brackets appear in a float over
box. Don't disrupt the flow of the text.

Maybe it's because difernt browswers show things in slightly differtn
ways.

And it isnt obvious to everyone that they can get that effect
with words they arent sure of. Makes no sense to use a word
like incision with stuff that's sposed to be read by the general
public on a site like that.


I'm actually having a real problem with the concept that the world is now so
dumb as to have difficulty with a word like "incision" ...

You forget that half the world has an IQ under 100.


MORE than half the world.. Its not an ideal distribution.







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