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I wouldn’t call a paragraph-length sentence ‘simple’. The longer the sentence, the larger the brain-buffer needed. It builds upwards in complexity like a tower.

I wouldn’t call a paragraph-length sentence ‘simple’. The longer the sentence, the larger the brain-buffer needed. It builds upwards in complexity like a tower. Quantised chunks are simple and digestible. Long strands of text are hard to deal with.

marginalia_nu 5y ago
That's my point: The quote is simple according to every metric in the article. Yet evidently, it's not.