A rant about the current poor state of grammar.
http://www.frankierants....6/grammer-is-important/

Guka 3 days ago
During my schooling days, the teachers exhorted us to read the dailies in order to improve our English. (Spelling, grammar, syntax etc) . Today, I doubt that the same can be said.
With people drawing salaries as copy editors and sub editors I always wonder why editing is left to MS Word spell checker(You will find words like leave instead of live). While I can always excuse the Standard for any mistake (they are just a rag anyway) am worried that Nation newspaper is also falling in the same mess.
Pray, how many mistakes can you find in say Time or Newsweek? Can't Kenyan writers do the same. But how can they measure up when they got a C in KCSE , joined some university for a shady degree and used connections to secure the job.
The mistakes we see in the papers today will be carried over to medical practices, engineering and all other spheres of life. It is unfortunate that as society we have chosen to reward wealth, and sex instead of merit

yep Frankie is right. At time i fil laik ringing the necks of the editas.

Sent vs Send...@guka, hiyo paka umeweka kwa signature iko na maana gani?

Inatafuta panya kwa roofless greenhouse

Bud english really suddens me. These are the kind of stuff that I dislike.

@mukiha, I too stand with you. And I don't mind being collected.

The gist of the rant above was bad English in Kenyan newspapers written in the English language. Unlike the man on the street, the writers (reporters) are supposed to have impeccable command of the language and incase they are deficient, their bosses the editors are supposed to fill the void. It is inexcusable for an English language newspaper to have English spelling mistakes.

Ironically, the paragraph makes no sense in English. ABK

I hate when I receive those calls from customer service guys and they ask "Is that Mr.Peter?". Am not Mr. Peter for Christ sake! They never get a positive reception with this manner of addressing me.

Use of caps has been forgotten. If I appears in the middle of a sentence it appear as i. I do not get it!

Unfortunately, kids today cannot speak any language properly, its neither English nor Kiswahili and neither their mother tongue. I cannot judge whether they speak proper sheng and I do not know whether sheng is a language.