- By Jim Evans
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Smart Talk SMART TALK By Sotto Voce, N.P.
IMPLEMENT: Alfred Kahn is a Chairman Emeritus of the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired’s board of directors. As chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board during the Carter administration, Dr. Kahn fought a heroic but quixotic battle to get government officials, or at least those serving under him, to use plain English.
One of Kahn’s memos, now in the Institute archive, urged CAB workers and drones to say and write begin, initiate, offer, provide, exercise, administer, execute, use, carry out, or accomplish.
“If I never see to implement again,” he wrote, “I will die happy.
Alfred Kahn is one our heroes, so we pray that he has other reasons to die happy.
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