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Impunity
#1 Posted : Saturday, February 25, 2012 2:05:35 PM
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Contest instead of Context!!!

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#2 Posted : Sunday, February 26, 2012 9:05:01 AM
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#3 Posted : Sunday, February 26, 2012 7:26:33 PM
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Every time I listen to kenyan reporters I cringe.
If you are picked to speak,interview on National TV which is seen all over,then please weigh your words. Our presenters embarrass so much. They do direct translation from swahili. Our english is the standard 3 one. Like mine. We think we are cool when we use words like 'of course ,actually and absolutely'.And someone keeps repeating it over and over during interview.
Why is our english too shallow and pathetic?
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#4 Posted : Monday, February 27, 2012 12:10:29 PM
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essyk wrote:
Every time I listen to kenyan reporters I cringe.
If you are picked to speak,interview on National TV which is seen all over,then please weigh your words. Our presenters embarrass so much. They do direct translation from swahili. Our english is the standard 3 one. Like mine. We think we are cool when we use words like 'of course ,actually and absolutely'.And someone keeps repeating it over and over during interview.
Why is our english too shallow and pathetic?

well, I do appreciate the correction of pronunciation, spellings and utterly wrong usage of words. however, English like any language changes. english will change and has changed. we will soon have a English Kenya dielect of english. We don't have to speak as the upper class in England speak nor do we have to speak like 'me mates' in rooney's backyard. We will evolve our english to fit us as we use such words as 'otherwise' to denote...such long phrases as "what else do you have to say?" and use 'actually' to start sentences - because its natural to us. this holds as long as we are speaking to kenyans. we should not think that we need to speak as if we are addressing the queen, it doesnt change who you are! any foreigner in our midst will have to put up and shut up. however when we travel to some other english speaking country, we must do our best to speak with them in their 'native' english going as far as calling slippers thongs in Australia, calling toilets bathrooms and replacing 'T's with 'R's in such words as 'DATA' and Twitter' in the US or call people 'Okes' as south africans do for the simple reason that we need to communicates!
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Ms Mkenya
#5 Posted : Monday, February 27, 2012 1:34:36 PM
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masukuma wrote:
essyk wrote:
Every time I listen to kenyan reporters I cringe.
If you are picked to speak,interview on National TV which is seen all over,then please weigh your words. Our presenters embarrass so much. They do direct translation from swahili. Our english is the standard 3 one. Like mine. We think we are cool when we use words like 'of course ,actually and absolutely'.And someone keeps repeating it over and over during interview.
Why is our english too shallow and pathetic?

well, I do appreciate the correction of pronunciation, spellings and utterly wrong usage of words. however, English like any language changes. english will change and has changed. we will soon have a English Kenya dielect of english. We don't have to speak as the upper class in England speak nor do we have to speak like 'me mates' in rooney's backyard. We will evolve our english to fit us as we use such words as 'otherwise' to denote...such long phrases as "what else do you have to say?" and use 'actually' to start sentences - because its natural to us. this holds as long as we are speaking to kenyans. we should not think that we need to speak as if we are addressing the queen, it doesnt change who you are! any foreigner in our midst will have to put up and shut up. however when we travel to some other english speaking country, we must do our best to speak with them in their 'native' english going as far as calling slippers thongs in Australia, calling toilets bathrooms and replacing 'T's with 'R's in such words as 'DATA' and Twitter' in the US or call people 'Okes' as south africans do for the simple reason that we need to communicates!


@Masukuma, i disagree. English grammar is basically the same. The rest is just not correct grammar! These reporters, if reporting in English should use the correct grammar, write the correct grammar.
If writing in Kiswahili, let them use the correct Swahili, 'ngeli' and all.
I am one of those who like @ Essyk are quite unhappy with standard of English grammar the journalists and reporters in Kenya use. I may speak the Queens English but at least i know the correct English without my mother tongue influence.
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essyk
#6 Posted : Monday, February 27, 2012 2:15:17 PM
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Thing is this.We have the normal sub-standard english we speak on the streets.That is acceptable and it can be a direct translation from whatever ethnic group you belong to.
BUT this is National TV!! We have beautiful and handsome guys, but oh my oh my wait till they start interviewing!! I hear words like 'on the stomach instead of in.And it gets worse when the written script is either lost of disappears! lol. There's this girl who speaks fluent english on KTN.I just love listening to her.The rest?Sad all I see is their beauty and I wonder if their bosses listen to the english they make us digest.
I know, I know we are kenyans yeah and we don't have to embrace the west but if so, can we please speak swahili like mdoe because if you choose to embrace anything foreign then do it the best way you can.

Now can can somebody kindly tell me why wazua keeps denying me the chance of posting twice? I can't post like in 98,700 seconds after a post?? Other forums do not have such.Why is this so?Sad
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#7 Posted : Monday, February 27, 2012 3:50:39 PM
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And one no-brainer loudlt believes (in a national newspaer) that Alpha Blondy is is from Senegal and that his name is Alpha Blonde!
Pure blonde head.
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