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*Avoid double negatives. | *Avoid double negatives. | ||
*Recoil in horror from triple negatives. | *Recoil in horror from triple negatives. | ||
===Sexist language=== | |||
You are writing for men and women. If you write “he” all the time you risk irritating half your audience. Writing “she” risks irritating the other half. Writing “s/he”, “he or she” or “it” risks irritating all of them. There are things you can do: | |||
*Write in the plural: Instead of “I am yet to meet a client who tells his lawyer to avoid write incomprehensibly” say “Clients don’t tell their lawyers to write incomprehensibly”. | |||
*Write in the first and second person: I’ve never had a client ask me to write incomprehensibly”. | |||
===Definitions=== | ===Definitions=== | ||