[kictanet] On Declining English grammar in our Newsprint

[robert yawe]

Matunda,

An error in the instructions for a mixture could lead to a worse outcome than just a collapsed building.

Imagine is the requirement was for 1 part in a 10 and it was typed as 1 part in 100, if that was the ratio requirement for concrete imagine what the result would be.

As in the case of Amin, it was off with someone's head all because of an 'E'.

Regards
 
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya


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From: Matunda Nyanchama <mnyanchama at aganoconsulting.com>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 16:48
Subject: [kictanet] On Declining English grammar in our Newsprint


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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