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Anyone else worried about the long term consequences of the influence of talking like this all day for the cognitive system of the user?

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“Me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do trick.”

— Kevin Malone

I think good, less thinking for you, more thinking you will do

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but I did find the caveman examples harder to read than their verbose counterpart.

The verbose ones I could speed read, and consume it at a familiar pace... Almost on autopilot.

Caveman speak no familiar no convention, me no know first time. Need think hard understand. Slower. Good thing?

That was my point. You (and I) tend to read verobose text and not argue with it, our brains are spoonfed reasoning chains and they seem to make sense. Caveman breaks that, so we have to actually think, there is no "thinking" done for us

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