This seems to be about concrete language (as it says) rather than about programmers' habit of being 'painfully articulate', ie being really, to the point of ove

This seems to be about concrete language (as it says) rather than about programmers' habit of being 'painfully articulate', ie being really, to the point of overly, clear. I wonder though whether /that/ also makes you more credible. Along similar lines, using E Prime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime) helps clarity and avoids /one/ source of conceptual fuzziness.