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Welcome to military technical writing.

• ethbr0 4y ago
  At the same time, a huge amount of the verbosity is defining terms within a document itself. When you're dealing with things with consequences (multi-party construction projects, high tolerance manufacturing, killing humans), it behooves one to be precise. Or, as the allegory goes: The offense was not stopped, for want of proper defensive deployment. The defense was not properly deployed, for want of spacing. The spacing was not correctly measured, for want of a standardized length. The length was not standardized, for want of someone writing a standard down and distributing the documentation.