Words of Mormon

It is not often to find Mormon writing about things of his own doing or of his present lifetime, but reading the Words of Mormon make it plainly obvious that he is the abridger of the Book of Mormon. Starting if verse 12 he turns his attention to King Benjamin's time period as his language changes slightly from the previous eleven versus as he begins to use such similar language as the many authors of whose words he had been combining for some time. I'm not trying to point out unoriginality, but simply the influence that so many of the other authors had on Mormon and the way he wrote when addressing their time. The first eleven versus of the chapter point out Mormon's heavy heart. I think he says so little about it because of how much it must of hurt to acknowledge it. Here he had spent months and probably years reading and writing about a millenium of people that had witnessed the hand of God and now was destroying itself.