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Re:Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty... by wolverine876 on Sunday September 18, 2022 @07:14PM (#32892371)
"At times he [the author] may indulge himself with a long one, but he will make sure there are no folds in it, no vaguenesses, no parenthetical interruptions of its view as a whole; when he has done with it, it won't be a sea-serpent with half of its arches under the water; it will be a torch-light procession."

- Mark Twain (via The Economist Style Guide)

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Re:Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty... by oblio on Sunday September 18, 2022 @07:41PM (#32892514)
I was actually thinking about that, and most of that phrase is an enumeration, it's easier to parse.
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