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Rank: Veteran Joined: 2/2/2012 Posts: 1,134 Location: Nairobi
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Robinhood wrote:Lakini message ilifika!! While the average man on the street may be excused for making such a blunder, professionals trained in the use of a certain language cannot. They are expected to maintain the highest standards in using that language. This is the reason school children are encouraged to read newspapers in order to improve their language skills.... because a newspaper is expected to have the highest standard of language. But when journalists start using such words as "dateline" instead of "deadline" and "incidence" instead of "incidents", then they must be reprimanded for misleading the public.
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Rank: Hello Joined: 5/10/2012 Posts: 6
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chiaroscuro wrote:DAILY NATION TODAY"Through a government programme, he got a scholarship for his undergraduate degree." What is an UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE? Once you have a degree, you are no longer an undergraduate! Perhaps the writer meant undergraduate STUDIES Good point; however should you take 'degree' to be an uncountable noun, then the said writer's 'undergraduate degree' holds good.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 2/2/2012 Posts: 1,134 Location: Nairobi
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waza wazua wrote:chiaroscuro wrote:DAILY NATION TODAY"Through a government programme, he got a scholarship for his undergraduate degree." What is an UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE? Once you have a degree, you are no longer an undergraduate! Perhaps the writer meant undergraduate STUDIES Good point; however should you take 'degree' to be an uncountable noun, then the said writer's 'undergraduate degree' holds good. No. No. No. A degree is what you get after graduating. An undergraduate is a person who is still studying for his/her first degree. Therefore, there is no such thing as an undergraduate degree!
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Rank: Hello Joined: 5/10/2012 Posts: 6
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chiaroscuro wrote:waza wazua wrote:chiaroscuro wrote:DAILY NATION TODAY"Through a government programme, he got a scholarship for his undergraduate degree." What is an UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE? Once you have a degree, you are no longer an undergraduate! Perhaps the writer meant undergraduate STUDIES Good point; however should you take 'degree' to be an uncountable noun, then the said writer's 'undergraduate degree' holds good. No. No. No. A degree is what you get after graduating. An undergraduate is a person who is still studying for his/her first degree. Therefore, there is no such thing as an undergraduate degree! 'No' x3 isn't enough I'm afraid. You still have to show why you disagree. Undergrad (noun) = student; undergrad (adj) = 'relates to undergrads'. Undergraduate degree therefore = the degree that relates to undergrads. Therefore there is such a thing as undergraduate degree!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2009 Posts: 26,325 Location: Masada
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McReggae wrote:otienosmall wrote:Safaricom revenues up by 13 percent
Giant mobile phone service provider Safaricom has recorded a 13 percent increase in revenue from Sh 17.4 billion in March 2011 to 18.4 billion in March 2012.
Source- Standard
Safaricom posts a 4pc dip in profits
Safaricom has posted a Ksh 12.63 billion after-tax profit for year ending March 2012, down from Ksh 13.16 billion last year....
Source- Nation
Hey revenue and profit are very different bro, hapa umepatikana!!! Mbirro ntha mberot!  Portfolio: Sold
You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2009 Posts: 26,325 Location: Masada
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Lucid_Iam wrote:He was still right. Revenue was not 17B but 107B. We are still dealing with the same press here. How can you have 17B revenue but 12B profits? Its highly possible especially if you are selling Goldenburg gold bars. Portfolio: Sold
You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/1/2010 Posts: 511 Location: kandara, Murang'a
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chiaroscuro wrote:waza wazua wrote:chiaroscuro wrote:DAILY NATION TODAY"Through a government programme, he got a scholarship for his undergraduate degree." What is an UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE? Once you have a degree, you are no longer an undergraduate! Perhaps the writer meant undergraduate STUDIES Good point; however should you take 'degree' to be an uncountable noun, then the said writer's 'undergraduate degree' holds good. No. No. No. A degree is what you get after graduating. An undergraduate is a person who is still studying for his/her first degree. Therefore, there is no such thing as an undergraduate degree! Symantics.. Where I am, A bachelors is an undergraduate degree, anything after a graduate degree. Foresight..
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Rank: Member Joined: 10/8/2010 Posts: 281
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otienosmall wrote:Safaricom revenues up by 13 percent
Giant mobile phone service provider Safaricom has recorded a 13 percent increase in revenue from Sh 17.4 billion in March 2011 to 18.4 billion in March 2012.
Source- Standard
Safaricom posts a 4pc dip in profits
Safaricom has posted a Ksh 12.63 billion after-tax profit for year ending March 2012, down from Ksh 13.16 billion last year....
Source- Nation
Guys who just glance at the headlines….. ABK!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/23/2008 Posts: 3,966
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McReggae wrote:otienosmall wrote:Safaricom revenues up by 13 percent
Giant mobile phone service provider Safaricom has recorded a 13 percent increase in revenue from Sh 17.4 billion in March 2011 to 18.4 billion in March 2012.
Source- Standard
Safaricom posts a 4pc dip in profits
Safaricom has posted a Ksh 12.63 billion after-tax profit for year ending March 2012, down from Ksh 13.16 billion last year....
Source- Nation
Hey revenue and profit are very different bro, hapa umepatikana!!! Revenue or pre-tax profit? But otienosmall, uko na point. Guess it was rectified. Luck is when Preparation meets Opportunity. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Rank: Member Joined: 10/14/2011 Posts: 661
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,979
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Eish...this is real hogwash "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Member Joined: 10/4/2010 Posts: 223 Location: Afghanistan
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Todays DN. AP officer kills woman, self in Embakasi....... An Administration Police officer on Thursday night shot and killed a woman before turning the gun on himself in a domestic brawl at Nairobi's Embakasi area. “After he fell down, we realised that the lady was still alive and writhing in pain from the gunshot wound she sustained around the jaw area,” said Ms Irene Mugo. “We rushed her to a local clinic.”……However, efforts to verify the status of the lady did not bear fruit as Nation was unable to trace the clinic the victim was admitted to. The rich have money working for them; the poor and the middle class are going to work for money.
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Rank: Member Joined: 8/11/2009 Posts: 302
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By Standard Team A house collapsed at Myanga village in Bumula District, Busia County burying alive seven members of one family. And an eight-year-old boy was swept by raging waters of Chemogo River when returning home from school for lunch. A two-year-old girl died after she was also swept away by floods in Nambale District.Area Councillor Jack Wambulwa said water entered into the room where the girl was sleeping while her parents were digging a trench to drain their homestead. “She was sleeping on the mat on the floor and her parents were busy digging a channel unaware that the water had found its way into the house,” he said. http://www.standardmedia...loods+as+rains+continue
"Kenyans peculiar habits come with consequences" http://www.standardmedia...2000058338&pageNo=2
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2009 Posts: 26,325 Location: Masada
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@Dod the woman was shot,killed,fell from the balcony then ressurected but the press could not trace her whereabouts in any hospitals around! Portfolio: Sold
You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.
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Rank: Member Joined: 3/24/2010 Posts: 677 Location: Nairobi
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The star,
Headline: Travellers stuck as Narok road closed over cracks
Idiocy: The geologists and road engineers are now accessing the situation,” Bett told the Star on phone.
Assessing maybe?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/13/2008 Posts: 1,565
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Todays DN "...were hoisted in a tent" (hosted? hoisted?)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2009 Posts: 26,325 Location: Masada
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Djinn wrote:Todays DN "...were hoisted in a tent" (hosted? hoisted?) This is just poor schooling and talking too much vernacular. Portfolio: Sold
You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,979
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Captioned on a picture in the Business Daily Quote:The new Africa Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, which were built and fully funded by the Chinese government at a cost of $200 m. The building symbolises China’s strengthening ties with Africa. Photo/AFP The sentence itself sounds wrong and poorly constructed.  Source"There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Member Joined: 3/24/2010 Posts: 677 Location: Nairobi
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Daily Nation,
The shooting happens barely two days after an AK-47 wielding thugs exchanged fire with Mr Daniel Prastola, a Slovakian and the owner of a security firm based at the Village Market, in Kileleshwa.
Is this new? I left Village market on the other side of Nairobi?
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