I also see the shrinking sentence length celebrated among my scientific colleagues who abhor the dreaded "run-on sentence". Maybe it is because I have no formal literacy or linguistic training but I mourn this loss; older, classical novels used to have a tremendous flavor in their sentence structure by prioritizing the longform. Some English translations of Russian literature can run into the absurd (sentences at half a page long), but even then there is a beauty to it.
I see this much less in modern novels and articles. Where is the flavor from pausing. all. the. time?
I see this much less in modern novels and articles. Where is the flavor from pausing. all. the. time?