OUR KIND OF ENGLISH : Stop chaos at ‘rally campaigns’, parties told

We’ve so many gems crying out to be shared today. For this reason, we’ll skip the lectures and start dishing them out, starting with stuff from the Tuesday, Oct 7 edition of the tabloid whose boss endorses this columnist’s paycheque, entitled, “Political leaders urged to advocate peace.” Says the scribbler says in her intro:

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Feb

OUR KIND OF ENGLISH: Don’t URGE with teachers, just do as they say!

Let us start with this old goof: youth for youths. We’ve reprimanded our scribbling colleagues over this goof a million times, so much that it actually bores us when we’ve to talk about it again. As we consider letting it pass, the teacher in us says No, tell it to them again…until everybody gets it right.

 

5 years ago

The Citizen Daily

16 Feb

OUR KIND OF ENGLISH: Minister gives ‘hopes’ dispute will be ‘concluded’

OUR KIND OF ENGLISH: Minister gives ‘hopes’ dispute will be ‘concluded’  The Citizen Daily

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Jul

OUR KIND OF ENGLISH : BM, minister under ‘retired’ Prez Mkapa? Nope!

As communicators, we’re teachers. One of the things we should impart to our readers, who include children, is basics of good writing, like putting a full stop at the end of a sentence. Or, beginning proper nouns with a capital letter—like in names of people, places and nationalities.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

31 May

OUR KIND OF ENGLISH: Fortune ‘lurks’ for Bongo air transporters

The talk everywhere between now and October will be revolving around the big task ahead for Wabongo above the age of 18: electing the men and women who will be our new political bosses for the next five years.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

06 Jul

OUR KIND OF ENGLISH :Suspect fell ‘accidentally’ into a pit and died

It’s always tricky communicating to our readers in David Cameron’s mother tongue, which is the second or even third language to most of us in Bongo who earn our daily ugali by way purporting to inform, educate and entertain others.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

06 Sep

OUR KIND OF ENGLISH : Political liars promise ‘heavens’ on earth

One major problem with David Cameron’s mother tongue that we often mention in this space is that it bears too many words that sound alike but then, when it comes to meaning and spelling, things change.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Oct

OUR KIND OF ENGLISH :Of ‘physical’ talks and ‘noose’ diving economy

Very strange things appear in the print media, and in some cases, it’s not about linguistic incompetence. It’s mostly about carelessness. Wrong words have been typed and found their way to the vendor’s table, thanks to what we call “typo” in which you inadvertently key in a wrong letter.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

09 Aug

OUR KIND OF ENGLISH : Artificial nails expose you to cancer DISEASE

Hello readers. Our apologies for the failure to deliver last Sunday. We’ll make up for what was missed by being economical with tuition and just dish out gems, allowing you to savour them without any elaborations from us and so, here we go…

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Sep

OUR KIND OF ENGLISH: Graca ‘snubs’ child abuse, JK ‘waves’ fees

>Our apologies  for the failure to run this column last Sunday. As a way to recoup what we ought to have offered then, we’ll skip our usual “lecturing” and confine ourselves to simply dishing out the gems we collected over the past two weeks.

 

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