Manifesto: Monosyllabic Truths
This post is a test - should I say experiment? Short words following the opposite ruse of the sesquipedalian world. Does it work? You are the judge.
Short words cut noise. Long words cloud thought.
Simple truths live in tiny words like light stabs across clear glass.
Our minds shift, pull, push, drown in length.
We hold so much! Yet grasp few things.
Scan and not read. Skim and not think.
Think: what stays?
The bold form? The plain sense?
Write bold. Write true.
Drop weight. Keep edge.
The word is yours. Make it fresh. Make it count.
All you have to do is write one true sentence.
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Well, that's just the beginning.