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Where does this horrible trend where people write two 4th-grade reading level sentences per paragraph come from?



I think it comes from txting culture.

I feel it makes it easier to scan text quickly; aiding both retention and rebuttal.

I prefer it to a dense, overly verbose, single paragraph “wall of text” sentence layout.

Are you old? Did you grow up before cell phones became ubiquitous?


So the subject is less important than the writing style?


In a world where there is very, very rarely only one person writing about a given subject: yes.


I blame Microsoft word.




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