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Is this article targeted at children? Too many adverbs for me.

• fanpuns 10y ago
  I think it was written for Australians
  • mmjaa 10y ago
    You're both getting down voted, but as an Australian I think you're both onto something here, quite interesting. Its definitely the case that Australian tech people tend to overly bloviate when it comes to national pride - this article triggered me extensively in that regard. Australians bloviate.
    • angry_octet 10y ago
      It is written by PR people ("Corporate Communications") not engineers. It is deliberately pitched in a non-technical and self-inflated way, presumably on the assumption that members of the public enjoy a jingoistic self-congratulatory tone. Maybe that is the only way to get that kind of press release into the press.
• spangry 10y ago
  You're not far off. Although not a mandatory whole-of-government thing (and hard to stick to when discussing technical issues), the Aus Government research that I know of suggests public comms, ideally, should be pitched at a year 9 reading level. Hilariously, most drafts I see/do tend to score at the postgrad level.