Woo hoo! We graduated! Wait – does a website want to be easier or more difficult to read? Why assume that the more difficult to read the more intelligent it must be? In my car I have been listening to some lectures from a recent conference at St Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary. One of the presentations was an address from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Having taught writing to college freshmen I am a little extra sensitive to how people say things. There was one sentence (in an enjoyable and brilliant paper – do hear that) that was a string of nominalized as well as agentless passive verbs. Mr Former-Freminar-Instructor here mentally rewrote it to create a sentence made up mostly of active verbs with clear agents. Basically the same words/roots/terms – just written in a way that is much easier to read (and hear).
Why assume that more difficult to read means more intelligent?
