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24 March 2010
Let's simplify legal jargon: Alan Siegel on TED.com
Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They’re crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for a simple, sensible redesign — and plain English — to make legal paperwork intelligible to the rest of us. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 04:26)
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genevieve grady
Mar 28 2010he is so brilliant at what he does. i wish there were more people thinking toward simplicity in these terms. and i wish he would help sort things at my work place! more transparency is needed if the world has any hope of maintaining sanity.
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basi world
Alan siegel’ s talk about the buisness language simplification is all about with the intention buisness could have to be understood by the common mens also .
Alan siegel indicates the quote of Thomas Jefferson ,” when the subject is strong , simplicity is the only way to treat it ” . it calls for the need of buisness agreements , tax forms , health care legislations simplifed in common english which could be understood by everyone .
He also asks for the removal of large volumes of paper which contains the old laws and much more unwanted things . His view that a 10 page agreement is extended upto 200 or more pages is a wastage of human time must have to considered .
“Simplification” is what the thing which had brought this advanced world .