When telling a story you want to introduce the maximum meaningful uncertainty into your telling to attract the listener into listening attentively to try to resolve it.
"The bull is dead." immediately introduces clearly important information that tells the listener they need to focus, but at the same time makes it clear that more context is needed. i.e the subtext is "listen up important details to follow".
For status reporting you want to allow the listener to stop as soon as possible to free up his/her/its limited management focus "bandwidth".
"I was in an accident, but I'm fine" would fit his paradigm better. (But would make a less notable/memorable story)
It's actual quite ironic that a blog post about emphasizing clear purposeful communication, uses a main example that is anything but.
"The bull is dead" is indeed totally meaningless and irrelevant here. Assuming nobody else was harmed, the status of the car is the next important thing here.
It’s possibly because you live in a location where bulls wandering on the road doesn’t ever happen, and where the author lives it does happen?
If, for example, the call was instead “I’m okay, the deer is dead”, I wouldn’t find it confusing at all.
But it’s India where they are pretty big on bovines in general and their mortal status in particular.
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