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But Carter never changed his rhetoric, always using plain talk and avoiding fancy words.

Here is some plain talk and uncomfortable realpolitik for establishment Democrats: If Harris had run a perfect campaign she would have won.

From Salon

Ko Wen-je, a 64-year-old former Taipei mayor, has won over many younger voters with plain talk on issues such as high housing costs rather than focusing on the China threat.

From Reuters

“So I want to push back a little bit on this idea of a just transition and have some plain talk about what that means. ... It’s not enough to talk about a just transition. You have to make sure you build it into each and every one of our tax dollars that we spend,” said Porter, who brought Gonzalez as her guest to the State of Union address this year.

The namesake of the Flesch test was Rudolf Flesch, a Vienna-born psychologist and readability expert specializing in the art of plain talk.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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