tick if you do…

…tick if you don’t.

tick the box
tick the box

My mother has asked me to fill in a form for her. With options like the above, I’m not at all surprised she’s confused.

Much as I’d like to suggest the organisation investigate the Plain English Campaign, I fear that the real reason for the bad phrasing is to confuse people into unintentionally giving permission for their friends and family to be included on junk mail lists.

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Author: don't confuse the narrator

Exploring the boundary between writer and narrator through first person poetry, prose and opinion

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