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Why was this question about authors shortening their sentences closed as a duplicate?

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Why close https://writing.codidact.com/posts/286099 as a duplicate of https://writing.codidact.com/posts/286098?

They are related, but distinguishable. Deleting (semi)colons ≠ deleting comma and a conjunction.

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Deleting (semi)colons ≠ deleting comma and a conjunction

They are close enough. Very close, in fact.


As an aside, it's not clear what you hoped to learn from either question. Unless someone personally knows these authors or there are published accounts of them explaining why they wrote long sentences, any answer would be pure speculation. For example, in the absence of the above, how could anyone judge the correctness of answers like "He likes long sentences", "He had a bad day", or "He thinks readers need to work to find the meaning so that they are more engaged"?

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The core of both questions is: why didn't these authors simplify complex sentence structures? It's hard to see how the answers would be significantly different for semicolons versus splitting into two sentences.

I'm not sure "why did these authors do X?" is on-topic on Writing anyway (I can't recall if we've discussed it), but if it is, these are basically the same question with two different proposed alternatives.

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