Tag: terseness
Redundancy, Terseness, and Code
Most human communication, text or written, is wordier and more redundant than it needs to be, strictly speaking.
That previous sentence, for example, would still communicate its point in about a third of the words with “Most human communication is too wordy”.
You’d likely still get the idea if I used about half the characters and wrote: “hmn comms too wrdy”.
There are certainly reasons why you might include words when speaking or writing that are technically not needed: