My attention span started off short and is getting rapidly shorter. If a document is written in convoluted sentences (or in the case of a patent application, one half-page ‘sentence’), then I usually avoid reading it.
Today’s invention is a tool to order search results by average sentence length on a webpage.
This would help people to mostly avoid florid language in favour of writers who get to the point.
Very good idea. That would automatically prevent my web search from retrieving anything from politicians.
I’d certainly pay for that service. As a stopgap, I just avoid the BBC News site completely.