From The Atlantic, Maxwell King’s “Mister Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children,” a look at what a producer and writer from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood called Freddish:
Hedda Sharapan, one of the staff members at Fred Rogers’s production company, Family Communications, Inc., recalls Rogers once halted taping of a show when a cast member told the puppet Henrietta Pussycat not to cry; he interrupted shooting to make it clear that his show would never suggest to children that they not cry.Orange Crate Art is a Neighborhood-friendly zone.
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A lot of the authors of the mangled sentences you clarify in your How to Improve Writing series might benefit from a lesson in Freddish.
Such as, No. 1: State the idea you wish to express as clearly as possible, and in terms preschoolers can understand.
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