Well, that's the beauty of the internet: SMS English may destruct language, but there are also plenty of sources online, so you don't even need to leave the house. <br><br>If you want to improve your writing: the Economist has a great style guide. Too much to take in in one sitting, but a fantastic resource. Unfortunately, it seems to be temporarily unavailable due to some reorganisation of the website, but it's worth checking back: <br>
<a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/07/housekeeping-announcement">http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/07/housekeeping-announcement</a><br><br>There are others that are available free of charge. Check out the Guardian/Observer style guide: <br>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide/a">http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide/a</a><br><br>Or the one for the Times: <br><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tools_and_services/specials/style_guide/">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tools_and_services/specials/style_guide/</a><br>
<br>
For the very basic basics: There are plenty of online dictionaries to look up words (and spellcheck is useful, too). Google your grammar or spelling question and you'll usually find the solution quite quickly. Google 'to amble' and you'll find it doesn't work the way you used it: <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amble">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amble</a>. <br>
<br>If you like vampires and grammar, check out this - The Deluxe Transitive Vampire (A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed) is not an online source, but a book I bought just because: <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Deluxe-Transitive-Vampire-Ultimate-Handbook/dp/0679418601">http://www.amazon.com/Deluxe-Transitive-Vampire-Ultimate-Handbook/dp/0679418601</a><br>
<br>The Economist also has a language blog - bit more geek material, but still sometimes fun and interesting to read. For example this entry: <br><a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2010/07/copy-editing">http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2010/07/copy-editing</a><br>
<br>Here's a fun (yes, really) piece on copyediting. This spoke to me, including the comments: <br><a href="http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/what-its-really-like-to-be-a-copy-editor">http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/what-its-really-like-to-be-a-copy-editor</a><br>
<br>Good writing takes time and practice. But one of the lovely things about it is that just reading for fun helps you acquire a better vocabulary and a better sense for the rhythm of sentences. So grab a good book and a coffee! <br>
<br>Andrea <br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 October 2011 17:55, Harry Delano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harry@comtelsys.co.ke">harry@comtelsys.co.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<u></u>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left">
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Do we have an English language center of excellence
anywhere around that anybody knows...?</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Pse, amble along the contacts, directions,
etc...</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I suppose we can all do with some 'refresher skills' of
sorts in the English language subset.</font></span></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><span></span><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff"><font size="2">H<span>arry</span></font></font></font><br></div></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left" lang="en-us">
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b>
kictanet-bounces+harry=<a href="mailto:comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Bharry" target="_blank">kictanet-bounces+harry</a>=<a href="mailto:comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Phares Kariuki<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 10, 2011 4:29
PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:harry@comtelsys.co.ke" target="_blank">harry@comtelsys.co.ke</a><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our
Newsprint<br></div></div></font><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<div></div><font color="#330099"><font size="2"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">:-). Thanks<br></font></font></font><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Macharia Gaitho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mgaitho@ke.nationmedia.com" target="_blank">mgaitho@ke.nationmedia.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left:#ccc 1px solid;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
<div vlink="purple" link="blue" lang="EN-US">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt">‘braking’,
not ‘breaking’ distance.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span> </p>
<div style="border-bottom:medium none;border-left:medium none;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in;padding-right:0in;border-top:#b5c4df 1pt solid;border-right:medium none;padding-top:3pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt"> kictanet-bounces+mgaitho=<a href="mailto:nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Bmgaitho" target="_blank">kictanet-bounces+mgaitho</a>=<a href="mailto:nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Phares Kariuki<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 10, 2011 4:09 PM</span></p>
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<div></div>
<div><br><b>To:</b> Macharia Gaitho<br><b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our
Newsprint<u></u><u></u></div></div>
<p></p></div>
<div>
<div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#330099;font-size:10pt">We are not
taught the fundamentals. I have been trying to avoid pointing out a basic
grammatical error many are making on this list, but I'll do so anyway. In
English and most other Latin based languages proper nouns are capitalized.
Many on this list have their names in outgoing emails without capitalizing.
Why am I pointing this out? We all went through one education system.
For you to gained admission into a public university, you needed to
have achieved at least a mean grade of B. If we are making the same
mistakes the journalists are making, how can we take the high road? If we
purposefully chose to ignore the rules of grammar as we were done with our
'high school' education, then it means that there is a fundamental problem
with our education system (we never had to apply our knowledge of English, so
we are really studying for the sake of the grade and not the
knowledge). </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#330099">It's the same with Swahili,
Physics (e.g. we all know that Kenyan drivers are constantly speeding, even
with vehicles that were not built for speed. In high school, we are taught
that </span><b><u><span style="color:red">breaking
distance</span></u></b><span style="color:#330099"> is proportional to the
*square* of the speed, which means that it increases out
of proportion to the increase in speed), but we disregard this. We
all sang the national anthem at least twice per week, for all twelve years of
our primary and tertiary education, yet we stutter if we are asked to recite
it. </span><u></u><u></u></p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#330099">The crisis of our education
system is that people don't value the skill as much as they value recognition
for the skill. It does not matter whether or not you can actually code, what
matters is that you have a certificate that says you can. It's apparent
in the technology space today. People have to earn their stripes, papers no
longer really matter. The 'Mwakenya' is the standard in University exam rooms.
And the situation is only getting worse. We need to find ways of integrating
what people learn with day to day life. If we don't, we will keep having this
tragedy of people getting knowledge for the sake of the certificate and not
bothering to find out why they are learning
that. </span><u></u><u></u></p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#330099">A further illustration, I once
spoke to a university student who mentioned that he was doing Oracle
Certification 'because he heard that it has money'. My problem with his
thinking was that he had no clue what products Oracle was dealing in, he was
going to do any certification available, which means, he might have ended
up certifying in a field he did not like (Oracle has Enterprise
Hardware/Software/Cloud Services) and land on a job he does not want, but one
that pays well. </span><u></u><u></u></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:43 PM, luke mulunda <<a href="mailto:lmulunda@yahoo.com" target="_blank">lmulunda@yahoo.com</a>>
wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Marsh,<u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
<div>
<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">My
brain must have been infested with cobwebs. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
<div>
<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Anyhow, that's what we are talking about: where are the
guys (like you) to follow through and clean up the mess before it gets to the
press? And it's not just the daily newspapers, Weeklies, and even monthy
publications. I have been reading a book authored and published locally and
you can see the concern. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
<div>
<div>
<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div>
<div>
<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><em
style="background-color:rgb(0, 0, 191);"><strong><font
size="3"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://WWW.SMARTBIZAFRICA.COM" target="_blank">WWW.SMARTBIZAFRICA.COM</a><br>Africa's No.1 Online Business
Magazine<br>...For Investors, Entrepreneurs, Managers, Marketers, CEOs, IT
Experts, HR & Finance Managers and Students.... Plus Stocks and Business
News and Career
Guidance</span></font></strong></em><a
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="<a href="http://www.smartbizafrica.com/" target="_blank">http://www.smartbizafrica.com/</a>"></a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
<div>
<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div></div>
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<hr align="center" size="1" width="100%">
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt"> Macharia Gaitho <<a href="mailto:mgaitho@ke.nationmedia.com" target="_blank">mgaitho@ke.nationmedia.com</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> luke mulunda
<<a href="mailto:lmulunda@yahoo.com" target="_blank">lmulunda@yahoo.com</a>><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div>
<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt"><br><b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:12pt;background:white" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt">Sent:</span></b><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt"> Monday, October 10, 2011 1:19
PM<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our
Newsprint</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt">Luke,</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
<div>
<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt">the Ugandan leader was ‘Amin’, not
‘Amini’.</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"></span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div>
<div>
<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt">I would suppose the unnamed ‘he’
was killed at dawn, not ‘down’. </span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"></span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt">Kindest regards</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"></span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div>
<div>
<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"></span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"></span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt"> kictanet-bounces+mgaitho=<a href="mailto:nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Bmgaitho" target="_blank">kictanet-bounces+mgaitho</a>=<a href="mailto:nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>luke
mulunda<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 10, <a href="tel:2011%2010" target="_blank">2011 10</a>:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> Macharia
Gaitho<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div>
<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt"><br><b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions<u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
<div>
<div>
<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt">Subject:</span></b><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt"> Re: [kictanet] Declining English
grammar in our
Newsprint<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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<div>
<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hi
all,<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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<div>
<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I
would personally blame it on cost-cutting. We have journalism and English
experts in newsrooms, but they have too much on their hands to spot the most
obvious and embarrassing mistakes in our publications.
<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div></div>
<div>
<div>
<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Mistakes can be costly. Remember during Amini's time in
Uganda, the dictator had criticised a female MP, and so the paper splashed the
following morning "Amini rapes MP" when he meant "RAPS". I hear, he was killed
at down as he brushed his teeth in his
house.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">LUKE
M<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><em
style="background-color:rgb(0, 0, 191);"><strong><font
size="3"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://WWW.SMARTBIZAFRICA.COM" target="_blank">WWW.SMARTBIZAFRICA.COM</a><br>Africa's No.1 Online Business
Magazine<br>...For Investors, Entrepreneurs, Managers, Marketers, CEOs, IT
Experts, HR & Finance Managers and Students.... Plus Stocks and Business
News and Career
Guidance</span></font></strong></em><a
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="<a href="http://www.smartbizafrica.com/" target="_blank">http://www.smartbizafrica.com/</a>"></a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div></div>
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<hr align="center" size="1" width="100%">
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt"> Catherine Adeya <<a href="mailto:elizaslider@yahoo.com" target="_blank">elizaslider@yahoo.com</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> luke <<a href="mailto:lmulunda@yahoo.com" target="_blank">lmulunda@yahoo.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday,
October 10, <a href="tel:2011%2010" target="_blank">2011 10</a>:18
AM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our
Newsprint</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-size:14pt">James,</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-size:14pt">The PS has a point and I am not
disputing yours either but I would simply respond to your email below that
generalizations is what has got us where we are. Specificity can help
more.....</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-size:14pt"></span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-size:14pt">Nyaki</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-size:14pt"></span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p></div></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt"> james ratemo <<a href="mailto:jratemo@gmail.com" target="_blank">jratemo@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:elizaslider@yahoo.com" target="_blank">elizaslider@yahoo.com</a><br><b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday,
October 4, <a href="tel:2011%2011" target="_blank">2011 11</a>:16
PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our
Newsprint</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Bwana
PS what are you insinuating? We open our newsrooms fro the so called English
majors? Some of them are in the newsrooms already...maybe they are sleeping on
the job...my opinion<u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">On
Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:11 PM, <<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke" target="_blank">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>>
wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p style="background:white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">All of
today's newspapers had several grammatical errors. At this time and age
of ICT, is it not too embarrasing to have such errors? We have
thousands of English majors without jobs. It is time for media to
be thorough in what they do by utilizing our many graduates without jobs.
As a Kenyan I get embarrased to see such
errors.<br><br>Ndemo.<br><br><br><br><br>Sent from my
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