[kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint

Mon Oct 10 14:43:28 EAT 2011

Marsh,

My brain must have been infested with cobwebs. 

Anyhow, that's what we are talking about: where are the guys (like you) to follow through and clean up the mess before it gets to the press? And it's not just the daily newspapers, Weeklies, and even monthy publications. I have been reading a book authored and published locally and you can see the concern. 

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From: Macharia Gaitho <mgaitho at ke.nationmedia.com>
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Luke,
the Ugandan leader was ‘Amin’, not ‘Amini’.

I would suppose the unnamed ‘he’  was killed at dawn, not ‘down’. 

Kindest regards

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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 10:37 AM
To: Macharia Gaitho
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint

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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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

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ratemo <jratemo at gmail.com>
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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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