Now, I am new here and am therefore going way out on a limb with this node. I will quite understand if I get shot down in flames, metaphorically, as well as via email, but this was on my mind, and I therefore just had to node it.
I realise that I have totally not earned my bullshit, but what I have been thinking about, strangely enough, all began with an apostrophe.
What I thought was, there must be a simple way to describe the difference between it's and its, and where better to go than E2.
Surely, I thought, there would be a nice, simple explanation which I could use to tell my friends.
What I found though was grammar jargon. The explanation did not help me. It was succinct but filled with phrases like, "when the form is contraction or possessive, do this ...". I didn't understand it - the jargon didn't enlighten me. And the jargon wasn't explained or even linked. So I did what you are meant to do in this situation and wrote a node for it myself.
I do a lot of law work. I spend much of my time working out how to explain complicated legal concepts to people without using jargon and therefore confusing them. This is often difficult, but never impossible. I think that most things are like this.
I'm not totally innocent of this myself (see business specification), but I guess that what I am saying is that I think that if you want to actually explain something, then please don't use jargon, describe what the jargon means (in the node), or link.
I'm assuming here that you want to actually convey something, be meaningful, contribute or add a small but important angelic light to an often otherwise mediocre world, you know.
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