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The Real Shaft
#41 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:20:00 PM
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mukiha....

pardon me..... i will correct you.....

......Philip Ochieng should read this thread. There is enough material for one month for his Saturday column

not in.....

the log and the speck story.... hehe

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tusker8
#42 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:21:00 PM
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And,the this art of 'killing' language is called lexicography...what we experience is lexicographicide.

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karis
#43 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:23:00 PM
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Journalists are the worst. How do you pronounce 'Finance' as 'Fi-nance' instead of 'Fai-nance'???
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The Real Shaft
#44 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:31:00 PM
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Tusker*.....

please throw away that Oxenford Diktionery......

lexicography is the writing or compiling of dictionaries.......

please buy goods with the Diamond shape ...

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mukiha
#45 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:34:00 PM
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Pronouncing primary as 'pre-mary' instead of 'prai-mary'

@Shaft: Ahsante
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jammo
#46 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:35:00 PM
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Someone just asked for my 'tell-porn' number! (Telephone)

The race is not always to the swift..nor the battle always to the strong..nor food always to the wise..nor riches always to the intelligent..favor is not always to the skilled..or learned..but time and chance happens to all. Ecl9:5..
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Pierce
#47 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:37:00 PM
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That's sooo romantic......give it to her!!!!!!
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The Real Shaft
#48 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:38:00 PM
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walking perverts....

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The Real Shaft
#49 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:41:00 PM
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My American College Dictionary....

has saved my blushes....

Tusker8*....

where are you....???

iko kitu...

gossip(er)..... anyone who gossips.....

nyyyyeeeeeefffffffffff.....................

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tusker8
#50 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:42:00 PM
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@ real shaft: you seem to know just one meaning.
lexicons is not just a dictionary but a also vocabs of a certain language (in this case English)

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The Real Shaft
#51 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:47:00 PM
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now you want to mislead us...

a lexicon is a 1) dictionary.....

2) word book....

3) list or vocabulary pertaining to a particular subject,field or class.....

lexicography has a singular meaning....

see below...

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tusker8
#52 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:49:00 PM
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1.
a wordbook or dictionary,esp. of Greek,Latin,or Hebrew.






2.
the vocabulary of a particular language,field,social class,person,etc.






3.
inventory or record: unparalleled in the lexicon of human relations.






4.
Linguistics.



a.
the total inventory of morphemes in a given language.






b.
the inventory of base morphemes plus their combinations with derivational morphemes.








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Kaigangio
#53 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:50:00 PM
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@ karis

'Kenya regained its glory' ...no...umenoa....it should be 'Kenya regained her glory'


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Sasha
#54 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:50:00 PM
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Which is the correct pronounciation of innovative?

Is it In-ow-vative or is it ee-no-vay-tive?

And what about schedule? Shedule or skedule?



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jammo
#55 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:59:00 PM
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Schedule...skedule..after all... School is not pronounce shool!! Unless u apply those french like linguistic rules and argue it shedool since there's an 'e' after last letter.... Bytheway... Do u say a 'H'.... or an H?

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The Real Shaft
#56 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:03:00 PM
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after reaching the semis in the Seven's IRB...

can we,in all seriousness say...

'Kenya reached her maiden semi-final...'

or would we be heard saying...

'Kenya reached its maiden semi-final...'

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mukiha
#57 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:43:00 PM
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@jammo: it depends...when I was in England (but do I say?),I was surprised to read the phrase 'an hotel' in a local newspaper....thus I think it could be an 'H'....it is pronounced 'ay-ich' and not 'hay-ich'

@ Shaft:

We wouldn't say 'Kenya reached her maiden semi-final...'

Nor would we say

'Kenya reached its maiden semi-final...'

We would say..

'Kenya reached their maiden semi-final...'

Reason is; we are talking about the team

On the other hand,it is true that 'Kenya has very good relations with HER neighbours...except for the Migingo island issue'
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sayshap
#58 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:45:00 PM
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Kenya is not a woman my brother...




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Wendz
#59 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:52:00 PM
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@mukiha

I stand to be corrected.

If we are talking of a TEAM,wouldnt we refer to IT but not THEY. Unless we are refering to the BOYS (individual) and not as ONE TEAM?

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mukiha
#60 Posted : Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:54:00 PM
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@sayshap: Kenya is not a thing either to be called 'IT'

English is to refer to countries in the feminine....perhaps because they enclose people in the same way a woman's womb encloses a baby...i don't know why
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