Well sir, in my former prime profession I wrote fact based reports daily on a multitude of incidents. However, police reports are to be just that. Fact based with little license to expound with creative wording. When some of my reports were reviewed by one sergeant I had, he'd take a red pen and circle words that he failed to comprehend. Though a fine peace officer and wonderful in a fight, he did lack, to some degree, the ability to read the English language well. He preferred things very simple. His logic was that the common man would read these reports someday in court and they must be simple and direct for that reason. When I moved on into the investigation area I then expanded the scope of my reports. Further, as an instructor in our academy I had drafted and published three instructional books on law enforcement based subjects. There I was able to be more creative and make use of a wider vocabulary.
Now with all that I was hampered by the fact that I think in two languages. English and Lakota. The manner in which they are spoken are often 180° out from each other. In English one would say for instance "See the black dog." But in Lakota it would be said "Black dog I see." So now one can understand the dilemma with two languages floating around in my skull. When overly excited I'll break into Lakota and then no one here understands me....
Though I often tend to be as long winded as a Democratic congressman on floor of the house in filibuster for a cause, most posts I see are often far more brief. It often appears that brevity is a key factor to many folks on forums too. This must also be based in part with the other forms of social media where multitudes of people are posting short quips and contracted sentences with as much abbreviations as possible. This of course is also fueled by the fact that they are young and working from phones rather than a full keyboard of a home PC. They type now with their thumbs. It is a communication trend to use a mass of combined letters to be descriptive of multiple words used in common speech today. Hence the ROTFLMAO, OMG, or LOL and such. I fear that this trend will continue and the use of complete and fully descriptive sentences will fall to the wayside. In the past century we witnessed the greater use of contractions in speech and written communication. Today the anachronisms are the trend and I feel will continue until universally accepted as the new language. Formal speaking is, I believe, a dying art. Professor, you may well be out of a job soon. And I? Well I'll be viewed as an eccentric old man that talks too much. Wait, folks think that now!
And likely with far too many commas too!