No one has ever complained about them. If you want to ask me a question about plain language, I'll do my best to answer it for you. Just type it in the box below. The Reader's Digest with an 8th grade reading level has 30 times as many readers as the Atlantic Monthly which is written at the 12th grade level. I have some additional comments on magazine readability in RealPlayer .
Clear writing is a way of presenting information so that it can be easily read.
It is a relative rather than an absolute term. Your document is readable when your intended audience understands it. That is, it is language without a lot of extras like jargon, compound-complex sentences, polysyllabic words, and so on. I can't tell you how many times I've heard this. But, it's just not true.