in my view sheng is a language that has developed in the recent times only to ague that it is so primitive that many may not see the sense in qualifying it has a language it is used in the cosmopolitan/ metropolitan areas were there are many languages that are spoken by different peopleit intergrates the many languages hence simplifying communication it is easily understood among the youth considering kenya has up to 42 tribes speaking different tongues.it has developed to the extend that poetry is crafted in sheng we should not shun sheng rather help develop and mould it to a better language --- On Mon, 2/27/12, lordmwesh <lordmwesh@gmail.com> wrote: From: lordmwesh <lordmwesh@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] The Sheng Question To: memakunat@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Monday, February 27, 2012, 10:03 AM Kiswahili Sanifu will follow Latin to the grave. Even Tanzanians and coast people have corrupted their Swa On 27/02/2012, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
While we have grammatical correct English and Kiswahili Sanifu, there will always be colloquial languages, and this is where Google's efforts with Kiswahili ended up meeting lots of resistance form the public. Kiswahili sanifu and colloquial Kiswahili are world's apart.
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