[kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint

[Catherine Adeya]

Aren't we over-generalizing a tard bit?
Catherine

On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:07 CEST godera at skyweb.co.ke wrote:

>
>Spot on Dr.Ndemo. I share your sentiments. There is just no more pride in doing 
>a good thorough job, irrespective of what job it is.Neither are many employers 
>picking the right person for the job! Values, values, values. That is all we 
>need to get back to.
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>Gilda 
>Quoting bitange at jambo.co.ke:
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>> 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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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Catherine Adeya <elizaslider at yahoo.com>
>> Sender: kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.keDate: 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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