Humans like simplicity. We crave it, in fact. It's why southerners say y'all instead of you all, or goodbye instead of God be with you. It's shorter, easier, simpler.
We simplify our lives in a thousand different ways that you probably don't even notice anymore. Some of it's linguistic, some of it's cultural, some of it's technological. One obvious example is the Keurig coffee maker. Who has five extra minutes in their day to grind beans and heat water?
There are less obvious examples too, like how we read our Bibles.
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