Sadly, it isn't about "our nation trying to understand itself". It's about writing in the language that communicates on a global level. The Internet - with its massive impact on worldwide communications - is English, and (if my sources serve me) at least thirty languages will die out because English is being learned to keep up with global trends. I like our indigenous languages. They just don't sell goods and services across the globe! (Though tell that to the Average Junior Copywriter whose home language is UR GR8T. Cant W8T 2 MT U!)

I'll have to do a course HTML programming! lol

The total lack of respect for IP is a growing global problem. Just ask the music and film industries. Here you have folk whose material is ripped off on a wholesale basis after it has not only been written, but also packaged and produced and moved further along the value chain.

The attitude towards IP abuse needs serious adjustment and perpetraitors need to be brought to book. This applies equally to purveying of substandard content to theft via piracy.

as a poet soon to be published,it is sickenning the length at which south africans have fallen prey to the disease of intellectual unappreciation.this is due in fact,to the media that upholds glamour,flash and bling-over substance .the lack of appreciation for genuine content has reached the utmost brink of disastrous proportions.africans need to embrace and value intellectual property,we do not want a mentally void country scarred by social fumes impaired to deny any form of truth and content.this is a sick predicament

Chris Moerdyk wrote a good piece on paying writers per word a while back - also this quote from screenwriter Robert Benchley, "Writers get paid per word, or per piece or perhaps."