Here's a Yegge blog post from 2008 where he defends his verbosity (in general): ...

Here's a Yegge blog post from 2008 where he defends his verbosity (in general):

Summary: If your writing is too short, then it doesn't spill over into people's long-term memory and they will forget it all too soon.

Having said that, you should go read the blog post so you can remember it.