<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Marsh,</span></div><div><span>My brain must have been infested with cobwebs. </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>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. <br></span></div><div> </div><div><em style="background-color:rgb(0, 0, 191);"><strong><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">WWW.SMARTBIZAFRICA.COM<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
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<div class="yiv299487822MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'>Luke,</span></div>
<div class="yiv299487822MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'>the Ugandan leader was ‘Amin’, not ‘Amini’.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv299487822MsoNormal"><span style='font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"'>I would suppose the unnamed ‘he’ was killed at dawn, not ‘down’.
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kictanet-bounces+mgaitho=nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+mgaitho=nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>luke mulunda<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 10, 2011 10:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Macharia Gaitho<br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>
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<div class="yiv299487822MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><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. </span></div>
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<div class="yiv299487822MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><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.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv299487822MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><b><span style='font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"'>
Catherine Adeya <elizaslider@yahoo.com><br>
<b>To:</b> luke <lmulunda@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 10, 2011 10:18 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint</span></div>
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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></div>
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<div class="yiv299487822MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><b><span style='font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"'> james
ratemo <jratemo@gmail.com><br>
<b>To:</b> elizaslider@yahoo.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 4, 2011 11:16 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint</span></div>
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<div class="yiv299487822MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><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</span></div>
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<div class="yiv299487822MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">On Tue,
Oct 4, 2011 at 11:11 PM, <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke" target="_blank" href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>> wrote:</span></div>
<div class="yiv299487822MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><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>
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Ndemo.<br>
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