At work this week, I requested some material so that I could write some documents. When I received what i needed, I sent back a quick email to let the other person know that I got it.
[Name of person],
Cool.
Thanks,
Jordan
Apparently, he thought my short response was amusing, so he replied back that I certainly didn't have a verbose style. I wrote back a fairly wordy response explaining why I had adopted that particular style, but before I hit send, I edited down to one line:
Verbosity is for poets.
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