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Let's simplify legal jargon - Alan Siegel

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Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for a simple, sensible redesign -- and plain English -- to make legal paperwork intelligible to the rest of us.

Alan Siegel calls for a simple redesign and plain English to make legal paperwork intelligible. What does Siegel mean by "plain English"?

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