I agree, McGrath.

One advantage of the need for simpler writing on computers is that more foreigners will be able to understand material in English. That's mostly good.

Recenlty my husband came home from the science library with an academic tome on the history of the Alps. "Whoppee!" I thought, "this will be exciting!" Well, it wasn't. The style was what we call turgid prose. Dense, humorless, academic, loaded with jargon. The kind of stuff mediocre writers produce when they think they have to sound intellectual.

If the new, computer-based style drives that out, it will be all to the good.