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* 1940s and 50s pulp novels. Readers wanted books full of plot, with no introspection or relationships. Writers happy to oblige. Iconic example: [[James M Cain]]. (''[[Double Indemnity]]'', ''[[The Postman Always Rings Twice]]'')

* The ''[[X Wing Series]]'''

** [[Aaron Allston]], from the same series, is completely different. The shift is a bit shocking, moreso when it switches back.

* Parts of [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]], especially Leviticus. Major stories and incidents, including Sodom & Gomorrah and the Tower of Babel, are dispensed and dismissed in 3-4 verses. The creation of man is summed up in a page. One time in the Bible, someone saves all the Israelites, equaling what Moses did earlier. This is told in two paragraphs.

* ''The Notebook'' (''The Notebook'', ''The Proof'', and ''The Third Lie'', not [[The Notebook|any other novel]]).

* Cash's sections in ''As I Lay Dying'' by William Faulkner. First section is a list of what to do to properly construct Addie's casket. Next two sections, the third being 1 1/2 sentences long, are about the casket's imbalance.

* [[Twitter]] makes this into art.

* [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Simple English Wikipedia].

* Even [[This Wiki]] invokes this trope. See [[Word Cruft]] for details.

* Guy Steele once gave a talk on computer language design, [http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf "Growing A Language"], in which he restricted himself to using English words of one syllable, and allowed himself to use longer words only when he defined them first.

 

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