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“ | The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. | ” |
— Blaise Pascal[1][2] |
Too long; didn't read (abbreviated TL;DR and tl;dr) is a shorthand to indicate that a passage is too long to invest the time to digest it.[3] Akin to Wall of text.
The label is often used to point out excessive verbosity or to signify the presence of and location of a short summary in case the page is too long and won't otherwise be read.[4] It can be misused as a tactic to thwart collaborative editing or a stoop to ridicule. If a discussion is reasonably concise, it is best practice to read it before commenting.
(Letter 16) ... The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
(Letter 16) ... Je n'ai fait celle−ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.The document is an adaptation of an electronic text from the National Library of France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)