Re: [GZG] Vehicle Recognition

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:38:29AM -0500, Allan Goodall wrote:

>Actually, he's right. He is only doing a disservice to the readers who
>would mostly know better anyway. Newspapers have a limited amount of
>space, and they have to peg their reading level at a certain segment
>of the population. It would take a sentence or two, minimum, to
>explain what an assault rifle is. That explanation would lose most of
>the audience who don't want to mess around with details.

Also, the smarter readers can work out what's being said by an article
that's aimed below their level; stupider readers can't work out an
article above their level. This is just where the term "lowest common
denominator", as applied to television and other media, comes from....

Roger
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