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Comment by HappyPanacea

5 days ago

How would you prove something is overly verbose?

Provide a counter-example where you restate it in less-verbose language without losing critical nuance.

This would, however, typically require developing expertise in a field, and then actually reading and understanding the thing being accused of being obtuse and verbose.

If you can demonstrate that you can do that for any arbitrary paper in a field, then sure, you'll convince me that its practitioners are long-winded gasbags.