Category Archives: Culture

Steer Well Clear

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Wayne Koorts | Permalink 0

This morning a friend told me about this article, all about a new advertising campaign run by Steers, a South African fast food chain.  The article is all [..]

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Doing it Write

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Wayne Koorts | Permalink 1

I’ve blogged before about how the standard of our written language is rapidly deteriorating, and today I wanted to talk about how we’re making the problem worse with [..]

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Fanboys

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Wayne Koorts | Permalink 0

Whether it’s Apple versus Android, Linux versus anything else or, TechnologyA versus TechnologyB, tech fanboys are everywhere. I’m ashamed to admit that I used to be one, but [..]

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Language in the New Millennium

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Wayne Koorts | Permalink 0

One of my passions has always been the articulate expression of oneself through language.  We have this wonderful, rich language we call English and there is great joy [..]

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To Be, or nt 2 B?

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Wayne Koorts | Permalink 3

In the age of cellphone text messages, online instant messaging and e-mail we are using written communication more than ever before. It seems ironic then that our language [..]

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