Concise Writing Debate

this is good advice for technical writing but not prose (faulkner would like a word with you! (see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28383626))

Your sentence is brief when no additional words can be removed. Being succinct is important because filler buries your talking points and bores readers into quitting.I find it harder to understand as well. I do get it but I see that a lot of my fellow non-native speakers will struggle with this kind of writing. Second sentence is way more complex then the whole original paragraph. "Succint", "filler", "buries", "bores into quitting" - whoah. Give

The florid writing is an elitist fad; you can express the same idea in much simpler language without losing any meaning.

Using common, well-understood terms is bad writing?

"The less energy they expend on your prose, the more they’ll have left for your ideas." - https://paulgraham.com/simply.html

Your writing is way too verbose.

Another sentence I tried - "I wasn't that interested in working on my project today and hence I preferred to stay at home and watch Netflix in spite of the multitude of issues reported." is show as very hard! It makes me question if the original developer of this app has even read good well-known style guides for the English language.I'd advice you to read a good style manual to understand more about writing and how to use words. One doesn't have to forcibly introduce

Tangential to the main topic, but relevant to some of your remarks about English grammar.Have you ever read Politics and the English Language by George Orwell?Since covering it in High School, it's been my go to for all writing. Writing the way he describes will have everyone understand you. It doesn't need to be more complex than that. It might be argued that it's superior in most cases. (Sadly we never covered this in our general English classes. We only covered it

Rephrase, simplify, eliminate. For example, your comment could be written as:> Frequent readers here know I write verbosely. I communicate clearly, but few people finish reading my messages. Any advice?William Zinsser's book, On Writing Well, covers this topic. I recommend it.

Nice article but a bit tedious to read improper English. It is fun for paragraph or two but wears out rather quickly. If you got something important to say why not just say it as clearly as possible?