One of the lessons I try to remember from Strunk and White is that "vigorous writing is concise." It takes more mental energy to parse a sentence that's full o

One of the lessons I try to remember from Strunk and White is that "vigorous writing is concise." It takes more mental energy to parse a sentence that's full of qualifiers, so there is less energy left to understand what is being said. Likewise it takes more mental energy to parse accented speech, and if both an accent and a lot of extra words are in play, forget about it. Omit qualifiers. Unless you really need them.