Why do newspaper journalist makes more spelling and grammatical errors while Reporters rarely make these mistakes, and when they do, they are almost always caught they are both the same people if not same intellect. Does this have anything to do with that some news comes in very close to deadline? How about "copy editors" who has to place the article in the space available, I think this is where a lot of problems occur if you ask me... Now let us consider Programmers: If you are one are a programmer, I know you've worked with both public and private code written by other developers and when you see incorrect spelling in source code it instantly undermines the credibility and professionalism of the whole source. The problem can get more serious when a contributor or original writer attempts to later correct the mistake as this can lead to mismatches and errors. Sometimes the spelling mistake can be hard to rectify, as is the case if there is a misspelling in an interface, database table or column name. I guess we all have to embrace and learn to value and see the importance of taking the time to correct spelling and grammatical errors and realized nowadays a spell checker is an essential item in the developer's toolkit. Two cents -----Original Message----- From: kictanet-bounces+titus.ngeno=ebix.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+titus.ngeno=ebix.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 2:48 AM To: Titus Ngeno Subject: kictanet Digest, Vol 53, Issue 17 Send kictanet mailing list submissions to kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke You can reach the person managing the list at kictanet-owner@lists.kictanet.or.ke When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of kictanet digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Declining English grammar in our Newsprint (S.M. Muraya) 2. Re: [NYSA:7509] The Cleanest Estate in Africa; Nyayo Embakasi Estate (Edith Adera) 3. FW: Legalizing Phone Tapping in Kenya? (Edith Adera) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:14:12 +0300 From: "S.M. Muraya" <murigi.muraya@gmail.com> To: waudo siganga <emailsignet@mailcan.com> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint Message-ID: <CAE3a0EkVdM_jaFCJ7FTYmcZttx2q9XQve2B6vKaR=CGxrN8eWQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Many of us sound / speak "Kenyan" but when need be we can "sound" British... This helps... Improve Your Pronunciation with BBC Learning English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdRmGvmeY1U On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:58 AM, waudo siganga <emailsignet@mailcan.com>wrote:
Thanks for bringing this out Bw PS. The TV stations also need to do something about poor English pronounciations by some of their newsreaders. It is common to hear, for example, "wrecked havoc" instead of "wreaked havoc". Other simple words such as "cap" for the kofia which is supposed to be pronounced same as "cup" is instead pronounced "cape" as in sheng. Another example is "liaise" which phonetically should be pronounced li-ye-z but the newsreaders seem to have other ideas. There are millions of examples, so to speak. The worst part is that listeners and school children pick up these wrong prounciations and everything gets propagated. In the age of ICT perhaps someone can point out to the newsreaders that there are websites (e.g. Dictionary.com) that can help them with prounciation.
Waudo
On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:11 PM, bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote:
All of today's newspapers had several grammatical errors. At this time and age of ICT, is it not too embarrasing to have such errors? We have thousands of English majors without jobs. It is time for media to be thorough in what they do by utilizing our many graduates without jobs. As a Kenyan I get embarrased to see such errors.
Ndemo.
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