[kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint

[Barrack Otieno]

I agree Daktari we have very bad manners, i was going to the Village on
Saturday morning and got to some diversion in Kericho, i saw people driving
through and was curious getting there i was asked if i have a pass from the
DC of which i said i dont  and was told to follow some trucks for a 30 KM
agonizing stretch that could rip apart a car (poor workmanship), as i was
reversing another driver told me that the pass ni kitu kidogo,  it made me
reverse even faster, what a shame! i felt like calling that DC, this culture
of shortcuts will cost this country a great future. I remember meeting by
Uncle at Telposta towers on a restaurant 5 years ago and he stopped reading
a newspaper since it had two many grammatical mistakes, i think its an issue
of ethics and rewarding mediocirty

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:08 AM, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:

> Catherine,
> I think we are approaching this discussion the wrong way.  If you have been
> employed to be an Editor, then be the best in the World.  You simply have to
> take the job seriously.
>
> You need to watch Michael Jackson's "This is it" in order to understand
> what taking your job seriously mean.  You will begin to understand why he
> was good.  Similarly, we can have good editors.  The Indians have succeeded
> in this yet we think we have better grasp of the language.
>
> There are good Editors out there but they are kept out of the job either
> because they do not know someone or have no money to bribe and get the job.
>  Do we know how the hiring is done?  For us to succeed we must first accept
> our inadequacies, our rotten habbits, our biases, our tribalist tendancies,
> our ...
>
> There is no sabstitute for hard work and transparency.  If we embrace these
> simple rules, our publications will change over night.  It is time we accept
> that governance issue for this country does not only affect the Government.
>  We must get rid of it from our society.
>
> This is the root cause of our bad image in everything we do.
>
>
> Ndemo.
>
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> Sent from my BlackBerry®
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> From: Catherine Adeya <elizaslider at yahoo.com>
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