• WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
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    22 hours ago

    Interesting analogy. Basically, yeah - you’ve got to tailor how you speak to the specific topic, participants, and goals you have for what you’re trying to convey. There’s no overriding universal truth, and adaptability certainly makes for a good communicator.

    Paragraphs help. Please, for the sanity of your readers use paragraphs (appropriately).

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      21 hours ago

      I’ve gotten critiques that I write in walls of text, occasionally, but that just looks like a single normally-sized paragraph to me. Maybe I’m just old. I am using a desktop browser on a 4k monitor, so maybe that has something to do with it. Just eyeballing it it looks like several mobile screens worth of text, maybe it should be broken up for mobile viewers. I guess there’s a paragraph break for the last two sentences… but it’s seven sentences total. Is that too much for one paragraph?

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        5 hours ago

        I measure what should constitute a paragraph by what I’m talking about. If I move on to another point that’s not directly part of the point I’ve been talking about — even though they’re likely directly related — I tend to start a new paragraph to make it easier to follow along with what I’m talking about, as well as make it easier to tell one point from another.