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title: "Plain Language"
url: https://othercommunications.com/series/plain-language
description: "Plain language is not a register of shorter words. It is a set of decisions about who is named, what is measured and where the reader is asked to do work. These essays."
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# Plain Language

Series B · plates 05 to 08

Plain language is not a register of shorter words. It is a set of decisions about who is named, what is measured and where the reader is asked to do work. These essays take those decisions one at a time.

[B · Plate 05 · Nouns That Hide the Actor · 602 words](https://othercommunications.com/work/nouns-that-hide-the-actor)

[B · Plate 06 · A Sentence Is a Unit of Attention · 562 words](https://othercommunications.com/work/a-sentence-is-a-unit-of-attention)

[B · Plate 07 · Numbers in Running Prose · 527 words](https://othercommunications.com/work/numbers-in-running-prose)

[B · Plate 08 · The Glossary You Never Wrote · 608 words](https://othercommunications.com/work/the-glossary-you-never-wrote)

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[Notes on scope and method](https://othercommunications.com/notes)