Nope, no military service. I do make a point of refining my writing style, with an underlying avoidance of repeating words leading to a reliance on implied words. Comes in part from frequent blogging, where reader attention spans are short and criticism for imperfection & incompleteness abound - to wit, high density content pays off. I've also always been of few words, to the point where one friend dubbed me "Noun Verb" because I tended to talk that way. My software is similar, concentrating on terse clarity, heavy on references and semantic implications. I'll spend a lot of time minimizing what's published, be it English or C++. Music of Philip Glass & other minimalists was rather influential and formative.
I know this is getting really tangential, but prolongued exposure to the Japanese language (where they usually drop the leading I/he/she/we on a sentence) has made me start doing this myself fairly often in written communication, ala "sounds good, arriving soon."
I must admit, I rarely read comments the length of your original one (in a rush / short attention span; like you said). Once I started reading the first few lines, however, I found myself unable to stop and I ended up reading the whole thing.
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Nope, no military service. I do make a point of refining my writing style, with an underlying avoidance of repeating words leading to a reliance on implied words. Comes in part from frequent blogging, where reader attention spans are short and criticism for imperfection & incompleteness abound - to wit, high density content pays off. I've also always been of few words, to the point where one friend dubbed me "Noun Verb" because I tended to talk that way. My software is similar, concentrating on terse clarity, heavy on references and semantic implications. I'll spend a lot of time minimizing what's published, be it English or C++. Music of Philip Glass & other minimalists was rather influential and formative.
Upshot: it's just me.
I know this is getting really tangential, but prolongued exposure to the Japanese language (where they usually drop the leading I/he/she/we on a sentence) has made me start doing this myself fairly often in written communication, ala "sounds good, arriving soon."
I must admit, I rarely read comments the length of your original one (in a rush / short attention span; like you said). Once I started reading the first few lines, however, I found myself unable to stop and I ended up reading the whole thing.
So, I guess it works.