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Re: Good grief!
Author: Dr Zarkoff
Date: 11-10-2011 - 15:52

>In April 1994, the General Code Of Operating Rules was re-written into an 8th GRADE reading level. After checking with the Census Bureau, it was determined that at that time, the average American had an 8th Grade reading level. The previous Edition of the General Code of Operating Rules, (that came out in October 1989 if I remember correctly) was written in an 18th GRADE reading level.

I'm not going to debate about reading levels, but the re-write did get rid of a lot of run-on sentences, poor pronoun references, unlear antecedents, etc. The old rule books weren't paragons of English usage.

As for the conductor certification, that's been a work in progress for about 15 years.

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  Good grief! SP5103 11-10-2011 - 07:37
  Re: Good grief! U. Bet 11-10-2011 - 09:15
  Re: Good grief! J 11-10-2011 - 11:00
  Re: Good grief! Mistertower 11-10-2011 - 11:57
  Re: Good grief! Mike Lepker 11-10-2011 - 14:25
  Re: Good grief! Dr Zarkoff 11-10-2011 - 15:52
  Re: Good grief! Mike Swanson 11-10-2011 - 17:12
  Re: Good grief! RRGary 11-11-2011 - 08:36
  Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) OPRRMS 11-11-2011 - 15:55
  Re: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) Mr. Guy 11-11-2011 - 16:03
  Re: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) Dr Zarkoff 11-11-2011 - 16:14
  Re: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) mook 11-11-2011 - 20:16
  Re: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) OTN 11-12-2011 - 13:28
  Re: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) Dr Zarkoff 11-12-2011 - 14:41
  Re: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) Mike Swanson 11-14-2011 - 12:00


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