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You talk about reader maintaining flow. And I think for exactly that reason you are supposed to use digits when the number is of a certain size. Like if I say, there are six hundred and seventy three buildings in the city. To me it’s much clearer to write there are 673 buildings in the city. Whatever “rule” I’m thinking of I seem to recall you spell out smaller numbers. Like you would write “there are three files” as opposed to “there are 3 files.” Everyone at work does the latter which always annoys me, though they also commit much more egregious mistakes in their emails and other writings.
Yeah I think this is ultimately a difference of opinion, and potentially a difference in how we learn to read in modern day - because while 673 is technically succinct, I wouldn’t say it flows better than six hundred and seventy three.
That being said, this could just be a carry over (for me) from the U.S. education system incentivizing reaching a certain word count. Idk
You talk about reader maintaining flow. And I think for exactly that reason you are supposed to use digits when the number is of a certain size. Like if I say, there are six hundred and seventy three buildings in the city. To me it’s much clearer to write there are 673 buildings in the city. Whatever “rule” I’m thinking of I seem to recall you spell out smaller numbers. Like you would write “there are three files” as opposed to “there are 3 files.” Everyone at work does the latter which always annoys me, though they also commit much more egregious mistakes in their emails and other writings.
Yeah I think this is ultimately a difference of opinion, and potentially a difference in how we learn to read in modern day - because while 673 is technically succinct, I wouldn’t say it flows better than six hundred and seventy three.
That being said, this could just be a carry over (for me) from the U.S. education system incentivizing reaching a certain word count. Idk