This is real back to basics stuff and I must confess I am writing this for myself as much as anyone else. I think that when working as a professional writer of any type, it’s hard sometimes not to get bogged down in the other ‘stuff’ that goes alongside. Tax returns, marketing and the like. So it’s important […]
Everyone speaks English, right? So why bother going to all that trouble of finding an evening class, studying all that boring grammar and desperately learning lists of vocabulary? While English may not be the first language of the majority of the world’s population, it is commonly used as the lingua franca within the international business […]
Have any of you received a text from a friend and had to then spend at least 10 minutes analysing it to figure out what it actually says? A few years ago I would have aimed that question specifically at those communicating with teenagers but in 2010 I feel that the dreaded text speak is no longer confined to that […]
How much do spelling and grammar really matter in today’s business world? The current prevalence of ’textspeak’, even on websites and in emails where it can’t be justified by the excuse of SMS character limits, has left me wondering how much people actually care about using correct English.