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I think your response was sarcastic but I actually fully agree - yes language changes, cultural & social norms change. Today in 2022, based on average of media
by NikolaNovak 4y ago
I think your response was sarcastic but I actually fully agree - yes language changes, cultural & social norms change. Today in 2022, based on average of media creation & consumption, this article is wordy (or "long form", if we feel "wordy" is loaded with negative connotation:). It would not have been wordy in different times & places.
I like long form. I like essays and articles and geeking out and getting in depth of things. But I'm not oblivious that majority of media consumption is swiping on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook.
- nashashmi 4y ago"I like twitter"
- Vox_Leone 4y agoI want to believe that there is still an audience for long form. Besides, great debates can't be carried out with 20-word pieces. Long form blogs of the web 1.0 were instrumental for the tech environment we have today. I would say that "you want to make articles as short as possible, but not shorter" [0] [0]https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/374887/meaning-of-make-things-as-simple-as-possible-but-not-simpler https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/374887/meaning-o...
- NikolaNovak 4y agoI feel there's perception that by labeling this article as "wordy", I have also made far more reaching implicit claims such as * Wordy is bad * There's no room in this world for wordy/long-form * I am a proponent of 20-word Facebook posts, they are awesome and a pinnacle of human achievement and we should all use them going forward I have not made such a claim in the initial post and have made substantial effort to explicitly indicate thusly since. Lord knows nobody ever labeled me as "succinct" :-D My old co-worker had a term "We are in violent agreement", and I feel that's what's happening here :->