Editing Carolus Linnaeus (section)

=== Writing Style and Linguistic Patterning ===
Linnaeus’s writing is repetitive, coded, and '''rich in structural symmetry'''. He reused the same syntactic templates across works, often organizing entire chapters as '''tables, trees, or schematic lists'''. He had minimal interest in narrative flow or rhetorical grace. His communication was '''taxonomic''', not literary.

His Latin was extremely formal, driven by parallel constructions and '''over-coded definitions''', another trait common in high-IQ autistic writers who prefer '''semantic control''' over conversational style. He frequently coined new terms, often with idiosyncratic logic, reflecting a desire to '''own the structure of meaning'''.
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