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Plain language is a translation problem too

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By Jam Mour6 min readAPR 2026

The best translation in the world cannot rescue a sentence that was unclear to begin with.

Plain language is the work that happens before translation starts. Short sentences, one idea at a time, and no idiom that only makes sense in the source culture.

Write for the journey and the translation gets easier, faster, and truer. Write carelessly and every downstream language inherits the mess.

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