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After studying languages at UCT and law at UNISA and Cambridge, Caryn Gootkin practised as a lawyer for nine years before realising that her true passion was for words and the way they are used and abused. She has recently started in other words providing copy editing, proofreading and plain language rewriting services.
Contact: caryn@cybersmart.co.za / www.inotherwordscg.co.za
cell: 084 703 0777 | fax: 086 692 0391
Caryn Gootkin hopes readers have conquered their fears of the semi-colon after her last column. Today she explains why the...
Caryn Gootkin continues her series on punctuation by demystifying the semi-colon, which has been called the scariest punctuation mark. Semi-colons...
My seven-year-old has starting learning Hebrew at school. This is the moment I have been waiting for; I have neglected...
Caryn Gootkin suggests alternatives to gender-specific pronouns that will make your writing more accurate, less offensive and plainer. The principles...
A few months ago my then 3-year-old daughter, Billie, told me that when she and Sam (my 7-year-old son) grow...
In Caryn Gootkin’s humble opinion, we should write in plain language and talk in plain speech. Much of the discussion...
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