The word for today is "flexibility"

[Kitosdad]

" the range of motion of an anatomical joint, which may be increased by stretching "

The above explanation refers to the human body, but it can be so easily applied to our
" oh so flexible " English language. Purists would have you constrain yourselves within a strict set of doe's and can't does´, but it need never be so.

By using a subtle change of words, one can often avoid the uncertainty of making your intention clear to the reader, for example :-

" Members of the public are prohibited from using this equipment." ( KEEP OFF .!!! )

" Highly toxic substances inside this container." ( DO NOT OPEN. )

Clearly I use these examples in a jocular fashion, nevertheless the meaning is conveyed by brevity.

I think what I am trying to say, is that you do not have to use complicated sentences to make clear that which you mean to convey.

Keep it simple, and to the point. Be polite at all times, and most important of all, use the FLEXIBILITY of the language, to better say what you mean.

Good luck. KITOSDAD.
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Englishman living in Germany.

[Gray]

It is a poem for a poet, an abstract art for a painter, the moving words for a writer, a rhythm for a musician, a rhetoric for a speaker...conciseness is what we all crave for!
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First lesson - English, not english. I, not i. ~A student of English

[SkiIucK]

Well put.

[Gray]

[SkiIucK]

Hi Gray,

I am eloquent by nature.