[kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint

Mon Oct 10 10:54:20 EAT 2011

Lets just say writing articles ... is like writing software.

If you are writing alot of code you are going to make mistakes ...

If you write one article a month, you are less likely to make mistakes than
if you are expected to write 30

just like ... if you are writing alot of code, there are going to be
mistakes ...

What we are doing with this grammer thread is "throwing out the baby with
the bathwater"

:)

Ps: When served a plate of rice in Kenya and you see one maggot - what do
you do ?

Throw out the plate or remove the maggot silently and engage

If there are any typos ... pole sana :)

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:36 AM, luke mulunda <lmulunda at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I would personally blame it on cost-cutting. We have journalism and English
> experts in newsrooms, but they have too much on their hands to spot the most
> obvious and embarrassing mistakes in our publications.
>
> Mistakes can be costly. Remember during Amini's time in Uganda, the
> dictator had criticised a female MP, and so the paper splashed the following
> morning "Amini rapes MP" when he meant "RAPS". I hear, he was killed at down
> as he brushed his teeth in his house.
>
>
> LUKE M
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> *From:* Catherine Adeya <elizaslider at yahoo.com>
> *To:* luke <lmulunda at yahoo.com>
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> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *Sent:* Monday, October 10, 2011 10:18 AM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint
>
> James,
> The PS has a point and I am not disputing yours either but I would simply
> respond to your email below that generalizations is what has got us where we
> are. Specificity can help more.....
>
> Nyaki
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* james ratemo <jratemo at gmail.com>
> *To:* elizaslider at yahoo.com
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 4, 2011 11:16 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint
>
> Bwana PS what are you insinuating? We open our newsrooms fro the so called
> English majors? Some of them are in the newsrooms already...maybe they are
> sleeping on the job...my opinion
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:11 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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