[kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint

Tue Oct 11 10:00:13 EAT 2011

Sema Barrack ... I know that diversion

Now tell us ... did you take the long route ?

Thanks

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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®
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Catherine Adeya <elizaslider at yahoo.com>
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>> Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:02:00
>> To: <bitange at jambo.co.ke>
>> Reply-To: Catherine Adeya <elizaslider at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint
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