[OJFord]

Yes I said and did mean 'a lot of' as opposed to 'all' - the USA is obviously not one homogeneous culture.

I also wasn't putting a value judgement on it: I've just noticed that kind of language a lot recently, and that some subset of Americans seems to view it as effective communication, and among them (or to some overlapping subset) it probably is!

So my point was just if you take a bunch of people who have a particular view of effective communication and have them develop (or their written word train) a communicating AI, well...