> Anyone optimizing for some specific taste already has an implicit theory of linguistic efficiency I don't follow. How do you connect taste and efficiency in

> Anyone optimizing for some specific taste already has an implicit theory of linguistic efficiency I don't follow. How do you connect taste and efficiency in your perspective? Efficiency in what terms? They seem almost unrelated from my perspective. > Most writers aren’t optimizing for anything at all, and they have no taste, and their writing is boring, and it wastes my time, and I hate it. Wasting time is probably my favorite reason to read. Cannot disagree more.