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Dank and Blight’s Elements of Style for Today’s Reader

Chapter One Times have changed. The attention span of today's reader is known to be slightly less than that of a Junebug. As such, the volume of text required has lessened substantially. The amount of copy required to produce a meme is, in today's world, sufficient for a technical whitepaper. The reader is, simply put, an imbecile. You will have to find a way to live with that. Assume everything you write will be comprehended as if read to a fourteen-year-old, Dutch cat with severe hearing loss. You won't be far off. Today's readers (if they can be referred to…