[kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint

Wed Oct 5 14:03:19 EAT 2011

Dear Mr. Ouma,

The issue of discussion covers all forms of print and electronic media so by picking on CIO, of which I am a columnist, is an attempt at throwing in a red herring.

Your response is a reflection of what has happened to the media, imagine a team from Chine arrives in Kenya to look for organisations to provide them with services to produce english language manuals for their various products while at the airport they buy a copy of one of our dailies  . . . .

Now you understand why we are still a long way from being the destination of choice for such outsourcing activities and all because we have "reporters" who cannot write english.

Regards

Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

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From: Michael Ouma <benomnta at yahoo.com>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
Cc: Kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 11:48
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint

While still at the issue/topic of grammatical errors, here's something from www.cio.co.ke website:

"InMobi, an independent mobile advertising network held an adverting and publishing workshop at Sankara, Nairobi. The event which aimed at show the potential of 
mobile advertising media and advertising professionals, kicked off with a presentation of mobile phones as an advertising media and what their 
future entails in terms of market reach by 

iHub Nairobi research show that mobile penetration in Kenya is now 
at 62%, this therefore, provides an excellent opportunity for 
advertisers to take advantage of this advertising platform.

InMobi mobile insights indicate that mobile advertising will soon 
cannibalize other forms of advertising such as print media and online 
platforms. This trend is being fanned by diffusion drivers like Google 
who are enabling local players’ access internet via their mobile phones 
and other mobile devices.

Currently there are over 65 million mobile subscribers in Africa, who access internet through their phones; this means advertisers will get 
more impressions on mobile web. Nyong'o pointed out that forms of mobile adverts such as landing pages, download coupons, videos and leads are 
interesting and attract potential customers more compared to the normal 
fixed SMS based adverts.

InMobi anticipates that Africa will have over 12,7500,000 smartphones by 2015, as the mobile ecosystem comes together. “Huawei will be 
launching a new version of Ideos smartphone in Nigeria, contributing to 
the growing number of smartphones in Africa”, says Nyong'o. Affordable 
prices have been a major contributor to the adoption of smartphones and 
tablets in Africa. This should help businesses aggressively pursue their targets through mobile web."

Any editors...???

Michael Ouma
Journalist
Kenya
Tel:+254-725-537823

"Do not go where the path may lead, but go instead where there is no path and leave a trail," - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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>From: waudo siganga <emailsignet at mailcan.com>
>To: benomnta at yahoo.com
>Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 8:58 AM
>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint
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>Thanks for bringing this out Bw PS. The TV stations also need to do
>something about poor English pronounciations by some of their
>newsreaders. It is common to hear, for example, "wrecked havoc" instead
>of "wreaked havoc". Other simple words such as "cap" for the kofia which
>is supposed to be pronounced same as "cup" is instead pronounced "cape"
>as in sheng. Another example is "liaise" which phonetically should be
>pronounced li-ye-z but the newsreaders seem to have other ideas. There
>are millions of examples, so to speak. The worst part is that listeners
>and school children pick up these wrong prounciations and everything
>gets propagated. In the age of ICT perhaps someone can point out to the
>newsreaders that there are websites (e.g.
 Dictionary.com) that can help
>them with prounciation.
>
>Waudo
>
>
>On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:11 PM, bitange at jambo.co.ke wrote:
>> All of today's newspapers had several grammatical errors.  At this time
>> and age of ICT, is it not too embarrasing to have such errors?  We have 
>> thousands of English majors without jobs.  It is time for media to be
>> thorough in what they do by utilizing our many graduates without jobs. 
>> As a Kenyan I get embarrased to see such errors.
>> 
>> Ndemo.
>> 
>> 
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