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To: Ish who wrote (23270)	8/23/1999 7:01:00 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24894

A few weeks back I discovered the Merck Medical Manual at Merck's home page. It is very helpful. And it is easy to read. The manual was mentioned in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, August 23, Page 22. Excerpt from the column ON LANGUAGE by Patricia T. O'Conner. Taking the gobble out of gobbledygook "On the medical front, we have the plain-language version of the venerable Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, the forbiddingly technical reference book physicians have been thumbing for 100 years. Take hangnail, for example. "Acute or chronic inflammation of the periungual tissues" became "an infection around the edge of a fingernail or toenail." "This wasn't a simple matter," says Dr. Robert Berkow, who has been editor in chief of the Merck Manual for 25 years. It took five years to produce a twin version for lay readers, with virtually the same information but in everyday language. "Most of that first year was spent practicing writing in plain English." Bill, the point of the article is that simple English is no one's mother tongue. When you look at the technology threads on SI, you see that they are filled with technobabble and gobbledygook! <g> M............