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Language, especially its permanent textual form, is a format that virtually every human has the ability to use and is undeniably powerful, emotive and expressive. Carefully selected, words can ring an air of stark truth and clarity, and can drive a deep understanding directly into the human subconscious. However to achieve the degree of expression needed to describe a complex quantity takes skill and perseverance on the behalf of the writer and reading usually takes considerable time [1]. Grammatical rules aid comprehension by allowing the writer to remove ambiguity in intent, but the application of these rules requires yet an extra level of verbiage.
[1] There are some quite simple techniques that can be applied to enable “speed reading”. To exploit the empirical characteristics of our eyes we should fixate less often and over a wider area of the page; apparently, it is only while our eyes are stationary that we can take in information.
