Word: understandable
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...past. He was born in Indiana in 1897, went to school in Cleveland, got his AB from Harvard in 1919, and did graduate work in German universities before accepting a teaching job at Roberts College, in Istanbul. The classes at Roberts were conducted in English, but no one could understand him unless he spoke a brand called "Standard London" English. Learning to mouth this dialect on pain of being incomprehensible resulted in his present, pleasant way of talking which most people consider Canadian...
What remained of Hope End, her childhood home, had been bought by a local fruit farmer who now proposed to restore it. He would maintain it as a literary shrine, although he had never read any of her poetry: "I wouldn't understand it. ... It's beyond the brain of a fruit grower...
...same time, I found more good at Caux than critics had led me to expect. M.R.A. has cut away the theological language which repels the layman. If it falls into the inanities and dangers of mass propaganda, it does appreciate the need of using words that people can understand and respect...
That complexity comes close to defeating the purpose of such books as this. In his preface, the author states that his book is intended for "the more serious general reader," as well as the full-time student of economic problems. But the general reader, in order to understand what all the argument is about, must first be well acquainted with a forbidding amount of technical jargon. It is precisely the serious but uninitiated reader who will be most easily confused by a barrage of professional patois. After Ec A, Professor Hansen's latest book would be easy sailing. Unfortunately, most...
Even a legislator, however, could understand the implications of Part Three of the volume, in which its author reviews succinctly the plans of Britain, Canada, Australia, and Sweden, contrasting with them the patchwork procedures so far evolved in the United States. The object-lesson is pellucidly set forth; in matters economic, this nation runs a poor fifth to its more enlightened and more alert neighbors. A solon utterly unable to follow the rigorous argument of the other parts of Professor Hansen's work would learn that the heresies of Lord Keynes are fast becoming the orthodoxies of chancellories from Stockholm...