Hemingway wrote the same way. Here's a famous example from the Old Man and the Sea:

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

The reason is simple: Short sentences are punchy. They hit hard, carry emotional weight.

P.S. As evident, clearly I'm having some fun with this, but the point stands.

Short sentences were never the danger, or what the GP is referring to.

	▲	win311fwg 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		But understanding the GP was never the danger. Incomprehensible posts on HN have held steady for decades. What held the flood back was that producing crap was all the users could muster. Bad comments took seconds to write. The ten percent was throttled by lack of use of tools like LLMs to help refine the words into something that could be understood.

Correction:

> The reason is simple. Short sentences are punchy. They hit hard. But they carry emotional weight.