Wamunyota wrote:masukuma wrote:you can have your heart to heart over whatsapp... the reason it's annoying is very primal... kinda like a guy eating with his mouth open making all those noises or talking while eating... it's not your food... or your mouth... or those guys who laugh aloud at their jokes in a social gathering... I am yet to place a finger on it... but I guess it's also in the same group as shooting mucous from one's nostrils (by covering one nostril) and blowing really hard! The guy may not be aiming at you... it's not your nose and the grass where the mucous lands is not your face but it's annoying/uncouth.
Bad manners and uncouthness normally are things that don't affect the other person physically but annoy them.
You need to compare apples to apples.Who determines what is annoying or not?It is actually annoying for you to speaking in English to your grandmother who never went to school.Equally annoying speaking in English to mama mboga who barely speaks English when you can speak to her in Gikuyu.The most important aspect of communication is to know your audience and the context.Our leaders doesn't it all the time.When Risasi is in Bondo he speaks dholuo,Uhuru speaks Gikuyu in Nyeri and Ruto speaks Kale when in rift valley.There is nothing annoying about that.Infact they have better reception.
exactly... now go back to my statement expecially the part that I wrote:
Quote:take it from me... writing in kikuyu or dholuo or shona or sesotho or ndebele or nyakole ON A PUBLIC FORUM and you know a well understood language that is understood by everyone is BEING UNCOUTH!!
knowing a language is a boon.... by the way it's not only vernacular.... going to shags where your grand mother is and you know she does not know english and talking to your brother in her presence in english and both of you know your vernacular ... IT'S BEING UNCOUTH. etiquette, manners maketh the the man! Usijali hii ni free session ya "USHAMBA SHAPE-UP". I will not charge you.
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