After reading many books and writing many papers, I have seen many awkward phrases and unnecessary sentence breaks. Those breaks were necessary to stop the sentence from becoming really long and confusing, but the idea should be tighter than just paragraph level. There are other issues, namely the "he or she" one. Unfortunately, learning another language takes a long time and is complicated.
So, I decided to make a specification for a more logical version of English. The vocabulary can stay, but grammar needs to be overhauled to be more like programming. For example, having sub-lists is very difficult. Let's pretend you need to say that someone needs to first "fix the dryer" and then "wash the pants and shirt". One possible sentence: Fix the dryer and wash the pants and shirt. This isn't the best example, but it does demonstrate how sub-lists can sound strange. I propose that this be allowed: Today, <<Fix the dryer> and <wash the <pants, shirt>>. Yes, in this case it is longer, but in the most important places it will remove annoying sentence breaks and prevent confusion.
I just might try to invent a more logical and clean citation format as well, kind of like Ms. Turabian did.
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