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In the interest of Search Engine Optimization and attracting more "Mainstream Readers" from a growing population of abbreviators , texters, phonic spellers, urbanizers, ("Yo! U 'Aight?") hashtag huggers, semi- literate souls, libertine Lingovators , and other denizens of the world's 'audience', bloggers and other writers have had to increasingly limit their formerly extensive vocabularies to reach a steadily declining " lowest common denominator " of practical literacy. Simplified, this means that if I want to get more hits (and more unique visitors ) on my website or blog, I must state my message in terms that are getting simpler and simpler. I must lower my vocabulary skills and writing style to conform to that of the general public. For example, if I've interviewed a person and want to mention something that he had said, I would not write " The Senator indicated.. ." I would write " He admitted... " --- not on...

This article is an amended re-post. Previously, it was a combination of friendly self-promotion, news and some compost; that last ingredient is what is spontaneously generated when you try to do things in too much haste. This time, I have included hyperlinks embedded in each of the blue blog buttons (try saying that three times fast), which are hosted courtesy of CoolText, a wonderful graphics and design tool. If you think that you've seen this post before, you actually haven't -- as they used to say on every package in every supermarket when I was a mere lad, this article is " NEW and IMPROVED !" I've even added a picture to this article. The subject matter of the picture is irrelevant, but that doesn't make it any less entertaining - and entertainment, like education, is always welcome. Please visit some of my most popular blogs , and feel free to comment on articles, to link to any of them (and I will reciprocate your backlink with an inbound ...