(He Can Talk! He Can Talk!)

Taken from The Globe & Mail's daily Social Studies column:

"In Britain, 20 popular authors have agreed to write specially commissioned stories in an attempt to persuade the country's 12 million non-readers to pick up a book, reports The Sunday Telegraph. Ruth Rendell, Maeve Binchy, Andy McNab and others will produce books of no more than 20,000 words, with sentences that average 15 words long and contain words with no more than two syllables."

I wish I could say that this is shocking that they feel the need to insult the intelligence of the average person with such a plan, but then I stop and think and it's not shocking at all—merely disappointing.  Anybody seen any particularly intelligent apes wandering about lately?

Edit:  You can find the full Telegraph article here.