[...] taciturn and tight lipped not so much out of secrecy, but reluctance: [...] managed an economy of communication, miserly with words, taking care to instill as much information as possible into unspoken routines. [...] Implicit yet satisfactory S.O.P.s are procedurally doled out through budget-length do-s and don't-s, [...] questions left unanswered if deemed unnecessary, necessary questions unanswered pending further brevity, [...] tautologies all but eradicated, [...] information only ever imparted twice with great care after significant change in context. The long and short of it was [...] A near total personal crackdown on spoken language.