Social media: stimulating interaction or lashon hara?
My wise (much) younger sister recently sent me a link to a YouTube video that's got me thinking. I'm often ...
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Tag: Caryn Gootkin
The world is too much with me
I am weary, dragged down by the waves of controversy, aggression and conflict that have engulfed my reality over the ...
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The Big Issue launches Thundafund crowdsourcing campaign
The Big Issue has launched a Thundafund campaign to finance the costs of publishing its first three issues of 2014. ...
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Has traditional media been caught in the web?
I recently wrote an opinion column for the Cape Times (Do we really want to make life less comfortable for ...
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The humble full stop: from plain language to haplography
Caryn Gootkin hopes readers have conquered their fears of the semi-colon after her last column. Today she explains why the ...
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Punctuation (Part 2): The elegant yet often-overlooked semi colon
Caryn Gootkin continues her series on punctuation by demystifying the semi-colon, which has been called the scariest punctuation mark. Semi-colons ...
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