Do messy problems beget messy sentences?

Nasty day in the stock market today.

Is there a correlation, I wonder, between the severity of an imbroglio and the length of the sentence that describes it?

"Around 2:00 pm today the market's extraordinarily heavy trading volume caused a delay in the Dow Jones data systems and as a result, the calculation of the Dow Jones Industrial Average temporarily lagged behind the market decline and as we identified the problem we decided to switch over to a back-up system and the result was a rapid catch-up in the published value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average," explained a Dow Jones spokeswoman.

I can't help it, folks. It's the editor in me.

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