Good analysis Cavin. W
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 05:53 -0400, Mugarura Cavin wrote: > Lug, > > this is not a techie problem, its a general problem, > just open a newspaper from any of the 'big' newspapers (New Vision, > Monitor, et al), if you dont find 20 mistakes, in the first 5 pages, > then something is wrong either with me or you. or listen to the so > called big FM stations. > > Several actors have brought us to this level. One of them is > privatization. When the New Vision was government run, it was easier > to find snow in hell than a grammatical error. > > The other issue is sophistication. Consumers have become less > sophisicated. If FM Djs speak worse english, they might actually > attract more listeners. Same goes to the Newspapers. > > There was a column, in the new vision, maybe 10 years a go, which used > to highlight these goofs, in New vision and Monitor, it was taken to > the recycle bin. My bad memory tells me, it was called Ooops. > > we have young people listening to wrong English on radio, newspapers > with bad english and we expect them to write correct english. > > allow me to disgrace a bit. None of the big FM stations is available > online. They are about 5 fm stations, which are online and these > include (Sapientia, Radio Maria, Connect Air, Uganda on air, Alpha FM, > Green channel(govt) > > In conclusion, privatization is good, but it has not worked, we have > more radio stations and more newspapers, but college graduates, > speak/write no better English than s.4 graduates of yester years. > > regards > > Cavin > > 'when you live next to the cemetery, you can not weep for everyone' > > > > > > From: Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LUG] [OT] Should techies have to demonstrate > good > communication skills? > To: Linux Users Group Uganda <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > Yo, Mikey, cn w put ya up 4 ya talk @ t LUG meet nxt wk? > > > (damn that's hard) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- >
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