65 years ago, George Orwell wrote an essay entitled Politics and the English Language, in which he urged people to write naked. In other words, to keep it clean. Simple. Straightforward. He said, ‘Let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to [...]
As a former lecturer at Boston Business College Randburg (1999), on the topics of business English, journalism, PR and customer service, I was super-chuffed today when the HOD of Media Skills at Boston Media House requested permission to use my Bizcommunity articles as teaching resources. She says they’re ‘clever, funny and so very helpful’ (my [...]
