Like so much modern prose, this demands to be read quickly, with just enough attention to register the bold use of words. Slow down, and things fall apart.
From the perspective of someone who is not a native English speaker, this kind of text always falls apart. There are articles in newspapers that I simply can’t read, because every other word is just some useless distraction from the main point. Even worse, those useless words are often the kind of words that is rarely used, so it takes more of my attention to remember what they mean. No, I have no idea what the article was about, because the words that required my attention were actually the useless ones. I would have to read very slowly and carefully to figure out the meaning, like solving a puzzle… but frankly, I have no motivation to do that, because it is easy to predict that the solution of the puzzle would not be worth the effort, that the underlying text is actually quite boring.
From the perspective of someone who is not a native English speaker, this kind of text always falls apart. There are articles in newspapers that I simply can’t read, because every other word is just some useless distraction from the main point. Even worse, those useless words are often the kind of words that is rarely used, so it takes more of my attention to remember what they mean. No, I have no idea what the article was about, because the words that required my attention were actually the useless ones. I would have to read very slowly and carefully to figure out the meaning, like solving a puzzle… but frankly, I have no motivation to do that, because it is easy to predict that the solution of the puzzle would not be worth the effort, that the underlying text is actually quite boring.