> Studies also show that sentences of 11 words are considered easy to read, while those of 21 words are fairly difficult. At 25 words, sentences become difficul

> Studies also show that sentences of 11 words are considered easy to read, while those of 21 words are fairly difficult. At 25 words, sentences become difficult, and 29 words or longer, very difficult. I spot-checked some stuff I've written, and sentences regularly exceed 29 words. Some of this would certainly be improved if it was shortened a bit, but I don't think most of it is "very difficult" to read. The study is a 404, but I'd expect there are other factors beyond sentence length – in particular, I wonder how much other punctuation marks such as commas, semi-colons, and dashes affect things, as well as general writing style(?) As a reader, I'm not a huge fan of the "short sentence, short paragraph" style. BBC does this, and it's one reason I don't really like the BBC. There just isn't any good "rhythm" or "flow" to it – it's kind of hard to explain. I dislike the bullet-point style that some publications have been using even more (actually, I dislike bullet points in general, outside of some specific use cases). If you read some older 16th-18th century works then they often have ridiculously long sentences that never seem to end. I have difficulty reading those. Old-fashioned spelling also doesn't help here.