[kictanet] On Declining English grammar in our Newsprint

[Matunda Nyanchama]

I am wondering whether there isn't a deeper problem of which shoddy editing work is a symptom. Can't we say the same of many other sectors? Dr Ndemo mentioned hiring practices and I wonder whether this isn't practiced almost across the board, including ICT.

Our roads crumble almost as soon as they are built; and we have been training engineers since independence. Look at collapsing buildings. At least a misspelled word may not mean life and death. 


I could name many, many others like these. 


Yet we tolerate it; we still but newspapers with shoddy language; and the companies make money. What's the incentive for them to improve? Why pay costly editing services when you are making money anyway? 


And those roads: we still drive along them, mumbling and life goes on; and (indeed) we may even cheer those shoddy workers with loot coming from their short cuts! Kijana wa fulani ametengeneza pesa! 

As long as consumers tolerate shoddy work, shoddy work will be the order of the day. And the more this happens the lower our standards go! 

Baadaye
 
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