The Impotence Of Being Ernest

I am running well late today, no excuses, I just need to keep going. How do you like the title ? Now, if you said it with a very 'plummy' accent, then most listeners would think you were referring to the play. The impotence of being Ernest is, of course, meant to be 'The Importance of Being Earnest'

This post has nothing to do with Oscar Wilde's play, or the actual true meaning of that group of words. Personally, I think it is important to be earnest, most of the time anyway.

No, this has nothing to do with any of that, it has to with keeping the 'Big G' happy, which in

turn, makes us happy.

We are told, in no uncertain terms, to avoid glaring errors in our posts. The grammatical 'Faux Pas' if you will. It has to be said though, I haven't any idea of what the criteria is, when it comes to what is acceptable or not. I would guess that speeling mistakes are a 'no no'. Sorry, couldn't resist.

For the most part, we need our writings to make sense, no gobbledygook. Correct word usage might be up there, I'm not sure though. I'm also thinking that the incorrect use of comma's and the like might not be high on the list. Whatever it is, we need to be sure that our work is 'clean' when it comes to the basics.

Here's what prompted this. My very first website is no longer with us, sad but true. I did, however, keep all the articles, as they were written in 'Site Content'. Over the last few weeks I have been 'revamping' some of them and publishing them on one of my other sites.

Going back over old posts isn't a bad thing to do. Most times I manage to add a few hundred words, restructure a few paragraphs and generally make the post better. This does include finding plenty of grammatical 'errors'.

Here's the thing. When I came to overhaul the last post, I noticed that it had never been indexed. (This was before I'd set up Google Analytics, or Console, or whatever it's called) My memory was triggered and I remembered being puzzled as to why it never got the nod from the 'G Man'

The reason, I would surmise, became apparent when I started to go through it. In the first two paragraphs alone, there must have been at least six mistakes. Spelling, extra words and nonsensical sentences. It was painful and the rest of it did nothing to ease my discomfort.

Some of my favouritesare joining wordtogether and missing letters out. I also have a tendency to swap letters around, in fact I'm alwasy doing it. 'Form' is another one, it should be 'from'. Quite often I will miss a letter out but it never gets picked up because the remaining letters actually make a legitimate word. Dine without the 'e' becomes 'din' for example.

Anyway, I have since finished 'touching' up said article, and have published it. I will wait, with bated breath, to see if 'G'ster' likes my second attempt and graces me with some good old-fashioned indexing.

It could take up to about three weeks, which seems to be the average on all the other posts I've added to that site. It's all 'Au Naturel', as this site is not a 'property' on the 'Google Search Console.'

So, I'll let you know the outcome. As soon as I know, you'll know and then we be all knowing together.

Pleasant evening be upon you.

Twack Romero.