Marginalium
A note in the margins
May 1, 2025
Marginalium
My commentary on something from elsewhere on the web.
Why Have Sentence Lengths Decreased? Once, sentences were very long, now sentences are super short.
The article explores a bunch of ideas, but favours the idea that writing is now about readability, whereas once is was about how easily you could read it out loud to others.
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