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[Occhidiangela]

Well if people(not you) would quite misrepresenting what was said - I would stop rehashing it.
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I understand. You can assist in a reader's understanding by crafting concise posts. I am painfully aware that doing so takes extra time and effort per post.

Many of my own posts are far too wordy, which can lead to obscuring my central points due to a low signal to noise ratio.

I find that "another edit" and a critical look at my posts, while asking "how clearly have I highlighted my central point and its support?" helps in two ways:

I frequently cut extraneous words (usually not your challenge since you tend to economize with words)

I find flaws in either word choice or connection (segue) between thoughts. (We can all run into trouble there.) Correcting linkages and word choices at the outset saves follow on "explanatory" posts. Failure to do so cost additional future effort, or simply render meaning ambiguous.

When one's style is less verbose, word choice and sentence structure become critical. Where there is room for the reader to "fill in the blanks," as often happens when the sparsely chosen words are not "just the right word for the subject", the "what the writer means" interpretation expands in variability.

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but wit and vocabulary are the source of effective brevity. The exponential loss in clarity per (imperfectly chosen) word makes terse and effective posts extremely hard to write well.

It does for me, in any case.

Hmmmm. I seem to be driving [wcip]Angel's "average word per post" statistic loopy with all of this verbosity! :lol:

Occhi

Liposuction Note: pre editing saved about 30 words, and 5 spelling errors