{"id":803,"date":"2009-07-24T01:50:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T15:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=803"},"modified":"2009-07-24T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T01:59:35","slug":"clear-definitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/07\/clear-definitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear definitions…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I looked at a website today that is trying to explain technical terms to enhance their sales – a good concept of course, but if the definitions aren’t clear I think they’d be better off without them.<\/p>\n

This is pretty much the first thing on their site:<\/p>\n

What is “Domain Name”?
\nCompared with IP address, Domain Name is a character sign which is like a doorplate number on internet, it’s used to identify and orient hiberarchy of computer on internet. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ok, English isn’t their first language, but their site is in English so it needs to be understandable in English! Even if we change ‘hiberarchy’ to ‘heirarchy’ it still doesn’t help explain a domain name – and I actually know what a domain name is!<\/span><\/p>\n

Moral of this story – make sure a definition is easier than the term it is meant to explain! I suggest using the simplest words possible when writing\u00a0 definitions so people can concentrate on the definition rather than the words you use.<\/span><\/p>\n

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P.S. Try my article for a longer but simpler explanation of domain names.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I looked at a website today that is trying to explain technical terms to enhance their sales – a good concept of course, but if the definitions aren’t clear I think they’d be better off without them. This is pretty much the first thing on their site: What is “Domain Name”? Compared with IP address, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,60],"tags":[184,297,972,1721],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-writing-examples","category-writing","tag-clear","tag-definition","tag-simple","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t