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Lately, I’ve been noticing how my sentences have a tendency to keep going when I write them onscreen. This goes for concentrated

Lately, I’ve been noticing how my sentences have a tendency to keep going when I write them onscreen. This goes for concentrated | Lately, I’ve been noticing how my sentences have a tendency to keep going when I write them onscreen. This goes for concentrated writing as well as correspondence. (Twain probably believed that correspondence, in an ideal world, also demands concentration. But he never used email.) Last week I caught myself packing four conjunctions into a three-line sentence in an email. That’s inexcusable. Since then, I have tried to eschew conjunctions whenever possible. Gone are the commas, the and’s, but’s, and so’s; in are staccato declaratives. Better to read like bad Hemingway than bad Faulkner.

Length–as we all know, and for lack of a more original or effective way of saying it–matters. But (ahem), it’s also a matter of how you use it. Style and length are technically two different things.

Try putting some prose onscreen, though, and they mix themselves up pretty quickly. This has much to do with the time constraints we claim to feel in the digital age. We don’t have time to compose letters and post them anymore–much less pay postage, what with all the banks kinda-sorta losing our money these days–so we blast a few emails. We don’t have time to talk, so we text. We don’t have time to text to specific people, so we update our Facebook status. We don’t have time to write essays, so we blog.

I’m less interested by the superficial reduction of words–i.e. the always charming imho or c u l8r–than the genres in which those communications occur: blogs, texts, tweets, emails. All these interstitial communiques, do they really reflect super brevity that would make Twain proud? Or do they just reflect , meandering paragraph, . | made w/ Imgflip meme maker

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goofy temp ☠️

goofy temp ☠️ | image tagged in good morning | made w/ Imgflip meme maker

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dissatisfied magnus

dissatisfied magnus | the person who posted the 🍆; should commit funny lighting guy | image tagged in dissatisfied magnus | made w/ Imgflip meme maker

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this is a cockroach

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long gato

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i didn’t know that

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i frogor :skull:

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