She has several songs already recorded. I bet you will like them all, nevertheless there will not be a video for each one.
This video is kind of different from the previous one since this has a story to tell. A curious thing that happened is that the green jacket used in the last one is used here also. Production just did not realized that, so now is a token of good luck! Another fun fact is that there is a car involved that is also green and nobody had noticed that either.
Her music is different. It is not the classic pop or anything like that. I am a person that listens to lots of music of many kinds and I am surprised that something different that we are not used to would be widely accepted… So far so good!
Just a couple of days ago I took a company training called “Plain English”. As many company web-trainings are I really thought this was not going to be any different.
To my surprise this was very entertaining. Not only did I learn, I was able to be aware for two straight hours.
I am not a native English speaker even though it was taught to me at a very early age. There is a ton of cultural difference on how I (we) write in Spanish, which is a more elaborate, fancy and confusing way. Yes, not many writers take care of their readers.
I found out that it is better to write in a simpler, colloquial (inside joke, ha!), plain way than adding adjectives one on top of the other. The benefits seem plenty. Writing this way is supposed to keep your readers interested on what you are trying to communicate, it also states that there are more chances to keep them all the way to the end.
I had a chance to comment about this with an English friend. He raised his eyebrows and said, “those are Americanisms!” -end of quote. Since I am a citizen of the world, I didn’t pay much attention to his mock. For much I care about him, I know he can be obnoxious just for fun, even though he is not Irish. (unconscious biased? another joke.)
One of the lessons mentioned that if you address complex subjects to others, explain them in a simple way like if you were talking to your family, the message will get across. There is a readability index (The Flesch–Kincaid) which points how hard or easy is to comprehend a text. The target index score for plain English is 70-60 which correspond to school level eight or nine.
Wondering why Reader’s Digest has been around since 1922 and has a total circulation (Yr. 2020) of 3,029,039?. Plain English!
Item
Readability Index (the higher # the easiest)
Item
Readability Index (the higher # the easiest)
Comics
92
Newsweek
50
Consumer ads in magazines
82
Wall Street Journal
43
Movie Screen
75
Harvard Business Review
43
Seventeen
67
New York Times
39
Reader’s Digest
65
New York Review of Books
35
Sports Illustrated
63
Harvard Law Review
32
New York Daily News
60
Standard auto insurance policy
10
Atlantic Monthly
57
Internal Revenue Code
minus 6
Time
52
Hopefully you made it this far, which means I did good on my training! I added a video from a restaurant in Windsor in the UK, to remind my Englishman friend that plain English is not only “Americanisms”…
Either way I had to add something so…
This place is the Castle Hotel, Windsor Mgallery in the UK.