[cornelis]

Yes, verbosity is a problem. Kant had it bad. But sheer quantity is attractive nowadays, so there is some rhetorical advantage there. Most news is verbose.

But I've observed often enough that silence is the sign of ignorance and that mature knowledge has a hard time shutting up.

[hosepipe]

WISDOM; "But I've observed often enough that silence is the sign of ignorance and that mature knowledge has a hard time shutting up." <<- a proverb really..