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reox
#81 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:29:00 AM
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Hi guys pwana!! na si what matters is you get my point?. Whether I shrub or not bora there is a conversation. get pissed off after Iam gone after all this isn't my native language.




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#82 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:43:00 AM
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'cheers' at the end of an email or sms. even when its an angry exchange ..... also people who 'shout' in emails......Font size 24,bold and colour the text red!!......haki i just wonna wring someones neck sometimes!! grrrrrr

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JkMwatha
#83 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:35:00 AM
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Supermarket check out sign - '10 items or less' or '10 items or fewer'.

Other sign 'aged 16 and under' or 'aged 16 and below' or '16 and younger'

Which above is/are correct?


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mukiha
#84 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:41:00 AM
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@reox: if you are going to use a language,strive to use it correctly. It is the least you can do to show respect to the culture of the people who 'own' it.

Don't you feel good inside when you hear foreigner trying to speak your mother tongue? I bet the feeling is even better when the foreigner becomes fluent in your language.

By the way; I have suggested to several politicians that one way to win the hearts of people during a presidential election would be to learn about 10 of Kenya's 40-odd languages and to use them during the campaign rallies....with a rider that you don't use your mother tongue when addressing your people....
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mukiha
#85 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:44:00 AM
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Car registration number KBF.......now those are letters,aren't they?
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Hezz
#86 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:50:00 AM
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The Brits say inn-ow-vative and the Americans say inn-oo-vay-tive! If you listen to Kibaki's speeches he uses both interchangeably! They are both correct! Plus Americans say shedule and Brits say skedule!

Don't know why Americans insist on saying EyeRack and not Iraq!


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mozenrat
#87 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:56:00 AM
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@Mlefu... Did you return the 'permission' after use?
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tonicasert
#88 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:29:00 AM
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Indians overuse ONLY...

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kanda
#89 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:29:00 AM
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common one hear in SK:

why is english been discussed with such vigor by Kenyans? shouldn't they be discussing there own language?
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mukiha
#90 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:39:00 AM
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@kanda....that's a good one,is it?
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FundamentAli
#91 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:45:00 AM
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Forget about grammar. No parent in the world today has time to teach their kids how to speak their language properly. I wonder what kind of teachers we have nowadays because they are also responsible for the mess.

Grammar and pronounciation are two different animals. You can pronounce something differently but still be grammatically correct. Grammar is about how you construct sentences. It is about how the words in the sentence relate and whether they follow the rules and phonetic systems of the language.


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ecstacy
#92 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:52:00 AM
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alot instead of a lot
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leona
#93 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:20:00 AM
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People who ask 'you're how?' or 'Kwani he's like how'? grrrrrr!

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mukiha
#94 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:08:00 PM
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Saying this (pronounced 'thiss') people instead of these (pronounced 'thiizz') people...
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Goals
#95 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:18:00 PM
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me i am,
as in what do you mean,
us guys
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mukiha
#96 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:34:00 PM
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This 'me I' thing came from a corruption of the phrase 'Me? I don't agree......'

Then Kenyans dropped the question mark some time in the early 1980s..... Me I was in secondary school and it used to drive me up the wall...then I was sucked in!!!!!

BTW: There is an interesting book called 'I Know It When I See It' by John Guaspari. It's about management of quality and it uses the story of a fictitious company that makes punctuation marks. Very interesting reading...
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Seles83
#97 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:16:00 PM
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read my posts to know true Kenyans

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Brewer
#98 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:38:00 PM
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@kanda,and they use which language to discuss thier kenya languages.
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jammo
#99 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:32:00 PM
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@mukiha.... What's english for 'mimi nilienda...' ...directly... Isn't it 'me i went...'?? The 'me i' is a 'mis-english' ..or rather uneducated attempt to speak english..a culture prevalent at (or is it in?) the coast..n most swahili speakin regions. Me i have made my point.

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#100 Posted : Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:50:00 PM
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Whooping when they mean whopping

It was a whopping loss not a whooping loss...

And what about the loosing when they mean losing...

I will loose money on Equity if I buy at 14/- (WTF???)

Kwani we are discussing loose change?

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