Also note the general preference for ever more syllables As cultures grow stagnant & backward-looking, rehearsing (or lamenting) past literary / historical moments, idiom ossifies. There is a preference for elaborate grammatical constructions, for the longest possible words.https://twitter.com/toad_spotted/status/1395759838567731201 …
It also takes a lot of cultural and intellectual confidence to write simply and directly, which none of these people have.
