Like which meanings?

the very fact that we have people on this forum discussing and critiquing the 'most intelligent' label of the city they hail from adds credence that there is some 'intelligence' in Nairobi! of course some of you may want to claim that i was not intelligent enough to criticise the 'most intelligent' tag/label when I first posted it but rather I decided to use Obama's meme. The reason I did this is because I had gone before you and known that most of you will intelligently criticise the 'intelligence' tag and from previous discussions gathered that the label was fitting and thus I posted it. The very fact that you have been able to follow this string of thought shows that you are indeed intelligent and adds credence to the fact that there is some 'intelligence' in Nairobi - some thing that I always thought you would be able to do coz you are indeed ...'intelligent'

Of 'intelligent'.

Granted.

But then again, in my rebuttal, I give you the (in)famous "Peculiar Kenyan Calling Habits" that has since become part of the Kenyan lexicon.

"They" give the resounding success that mpesa has become in bringing the mass man into the monetary-banking mainstream as one of the signs of this "intelligence". Yet only failure has met those that try to replicate it elsewhere.

I want to think that this is an adaptation to new phenomena and not destruction of language as you so eloquently put it.

"Peculiar Kenyan Calling Habits" did not, in my opinion, render communication unintelligible but actually enhanced it in that it defined a new behavior that could only have developed from peculiar usage of a relatively new technology.

How wrong am I?

Looking at their definition:

The rankings, in the forum’s opinion, recognize the achievements of communities that have inclusive, prosperous, economies on a basis of information and communication technology.

I am inclined to think so.

The question is, do you?