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The right to understand

Sandra Fisher-Martins · TED

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About

Medical, legal, and financial documents should be easy to read, but too often they aren't. With spot-on (and funny) examples, Sandra Fisher Martins shows how overly complex language separates us from the information we need -- and three steps to change that. In Portuguese with English subtitles.

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxO'Porto
Speaker
Sandra Fisher-Martins
Year
2011
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Law, Languages and linguistics, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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