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I really, really couldn't agree less.
Sentence and paragraph length are style issues, and should be determined more by the content rather than by the medium.
Surely, items specifically for on-line consumption such as news and op-ed pieces can be written to accomodate the medium. Something like fiction or technical non-fiction should not be mangled solely to fit into an electronic format.
This attitude can be taken to a ridiculous extreme. Should we start writing all our prose in leet? txt in abrvs & not use cap or punc? Do we really want to start reading books that look like SMS text messages?
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