Stop pretending things are okay
Papering over the potholes: idioms
I smile as I take my morning walk through Parkmore. The smile is an ironic one. The road workers are very busy painting the street markings and the L-outline at…
Lazy with language: preposition usage
language changes for good reasons and this can be from people migrating, from new industries emerging, from mispronunciations, from transposing letters incorrectly, and from mistakes.
Blogs, vlogs and virtual reality
Podcasting is not new to content but if you don’t take that next step at least, your web presence is going to suffer. Next up is video. Moving pictures are the next basic requirement for a 2022 rendition of consumed content. Video too is not all that new, but pay attention to quality. You’re not going to get away with just anything so invest some time in this.
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In with authority, out with SEO?
Google has recently updated its algorithm. Authority has replaced SEO according to some content sources.
10 reasons to include story-telling in content
10 reasons to include story-telling in content
A quiver full of arrows
Thanks to prolific author Jeffrey Archer the idiom ‘a quiver full of arrows’ penetrated our language to a great extent after 1980 when he published a book with this title.…
J.K. Rowling rose to fame with the Harry Potter series but also wrote other genres under a pen name.
5 Reasons to write under a pseudonym
Writing under a pseudonym (pen name) or a nom de plume as the French like to call it, is as old as time itself. Disguising your true self may come with some good reasons. You may choose to write under a pseudonym simply to change things up or to give yourself a fresh view of things. African writers may opt for a more simple-sounding name to fit in with popular writers/genres.
What’s wrong with you, man?
Recently I was asked to chair a weekly meeting. There was some sensitivity around the term ‘chairman’ and points made that due to a gender sensitive environment, the group…
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Can you count to 10? – idiom
Can you count to 10? Good then you can help with the untelling of the decuplets saga. In the Financial Mail today, a staff writer says Iqual Survé, the owner of the newspaper, that shared the story, would reveal all.
A cheesy but wise tale about Hem and Haw
My take on ‘Moving Cheese’
Having read Spencer Johnson's Who Moved My Cheese for the fourth time, I decided to put together my own take on things. In 2021, I can't help seeing the parallels…
