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It is more useful to say that Pike's Peak is in the center of Colorado than somewhere within. This kind of thing is taking terseness too far, I think. If I’m n
by iainmerrick 7y ago
It is more useful to say that Pike's Peak is in the center of Colorado than somewhere within.
This kind of thing is taking terseness too far, I think. If I’m not immediately familiar with Pike’s Peak it takes me a moment to unpack your meaning, but I immediately understood the more verbose explanation in the original.
- Kye 7y agoYep. People often confuse understanding audience with verbosity. Waffling and context both add word count. edit: I could reduce this to "Waffling and context both add word count." but then: 1: It's not clear I agree with you and 2: Triplets--like the three sentences I wrote there--are an artistic device that improve clarity and help prose flow.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoThere's a large international audience here. So, slang like "yep" should probably be avoided if one is keen to carefully tailor their writing? (I debated whether to use 'one' or 'someone' here, for similar reasons.)
- Kye 7y agoIt never occurred to me that it was American slang. That's a new thing to think about.