It's nuts*

A Nation Tries to Banish Jargon. Leveraging the Pivot Has Yet to Synergize.

A push to pass a law promoting the use of simple language in New Zealand’s government documents is proving complicated. For one thing, no one can quite agree on what plain English actually means.

Meanwhile…

There are 776 plain-language laws across the U.S., but academics haven’t studied the effects of most of them, one scholar wrote in the University of Miami Law Review earlier this year. ​Some advocates are concerned the laws don’t include strong enough penalties for failing to comply.

[If the penalties for poor writing are monetary, the Government will go broke fining itself.]

George Orwell set forth five rules for plain writing, and then added a sixth:

Break any of these rules sooner than saying anything outright barbarous.

*Which is as plain as it gets, unless you think I'm talking about nuts.