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by offtop5 1960 days ago
I mean, it can be argued his no nonsense style of writing is exactly why he's successful.

He didn't waste time and money sending this to some ivy league educated kid for a proofreading session. I've even heard one theory that the higher up in a company you get the shorter emails tend to be, simply because the folks writing those emails don't have time to waste.

In fact the coolest thing about English is just how much flexibility exist in the language, from my studies of Asian languages this just doesn't exist to nearly the same scale.