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I feel like every 4 or 5 years, everyone gets together and celebrates terse writing like it's some new insight.
by multinglets 10y ago
I feel like every 4 or 5 years, everyone gets together and celebrates terse writing like it's some new insight.
- jsmith0295 10y agoI feel like every 4 or 5 comments, someone comments as if they have some new insight ;) Seriously though, this is a pretty useful tool, especially for people who are new at writing.
- multinglets 10y agoI have seen almost this exact same thing like a decade ago.
- daveguy 10y ago> I feel like every 4 or 5 years, everyone gets together and celebrates terse writing like it's some new insight. Every 4 or 5 years everyone celebrates terse writing like it's new. FTFY.
- ksenzee 10y agoWriters periodically resurrect brevity.
- sillysaurus3 10y agoConcise is better than brief.
- BunnyRubenstein 10y agoWrite right.
- ksenzee 10y agoThere are trends in writing like in everything else, I guess.
- dragonwriter 10y agoNo, people celebrate terse writing fairly non-stop. It may only intersect with your awareness every 4-5 years, but its not like it goes away in between.
- kazinator 10y agoThose writers who don't appreciate terse writing are too busy writing to celebrate.
- copperx 10y agoWhen you become older, everything fits this pattern, which makes day to day living tiresome.
- rcthompson 10y agoI don't think this is presenting terse writing as a new insight. The innovation here is (if I'm understanding it correctly) using a grammar parser to identify some fairly complex criteria (e.g. avoiding left-branching sentences).