> It gets to the point where often I want an author to be formulaic rather than stylish and idiosyncratic because it makes it much quicker to reorganise and internalise.
Hence legalese, and bureaucratese, and any number of other things that get laughed at and railed against in equal measure.
Excellent point. I rarely think of those as standardised structural conventions for clearly and efficiently conveying meaning to those acquainted with the terms and, to my shame, usually write them off as obfuscating functions to mislead or confuse. Not so!
Hence legalese, and bureaucratese, and any number of other things that get laughed at and railed against in equal measure.