Kenyan Professor marks the grammatical mistakes in Nana Addo’s statement on Rawling’s death & scored him 5/10
It appears people have a lot of time at their hand to do jobs that they won’t get paid for. Well, a Kenyan teacher Mwalimu Joshua Njenga has dedicated his time to mark the grammatical mistakes of President Nana Addo’s press release on the death of JJ Rawlings yesterday. In a tweet, he wrote: “Dear…
It appears people have a lot of time at their hand to do jobs that they won’t get paid for.
Well, a Kenyan teacher Mwalimu Joshua Njenga has dedicated his time to mark the grammatical mistakes of President Nana Addo’s press release on the death of JJ Rawlings yesterday.
In a tweet, he wrote: “Dear President Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo ) My students and I condole with Ghana. We have, therefore, used your statement, on the death of Jerry Rawlings, for today’s marking project. Here is how it looks after surgery. Have a great day.”
See the corrections he made below:
Dear President Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo)
My students and I condole with Ghana.
We have, therefore, used your statement, on the death of Jerry Rawlings, for today's marking project.
Here is how it looks after surgery.
Have a great day.
Mwalimu Joshua Njenga pic.twitter.com/o7F8nujTVM
— Mwalimu Joshua Njenga (@JKNjenga) November 13, 2020
What do you think about this? Do you think the teacher is right in his corrections? Let us know in the comment box below!!!
Hmmmmm free education
Free educational background
I think the teacher is right this will government officials on their toes so that they will learn grammar and write it the way it should be written
I’m not surprised, English is not our first language. Let him be. It was written on his behave.
That has been ur problem, u don’t want to learn at all
….. it was written on his (behalf) and not (behave). Kindly take note.
I concede to the professor’s point about the art of communication. However, the President was communicating primarily to Ghanaians, and we have our own nuances that convey our emotions during the moment of bereavement. We are not in the business of marking scripts at this difficult moment. He should leave us alone, cos “OUR EYES ARE RED”!
Hmmmm. I now understand my former boss, who would not sign for anything. Whether written for him or not, the corrections were necessary for all to learn from it.
The president doesn’t write his speech oo
Nana Addo himself needs free education, it’s embarrassing for our president to be humiliated this way. I’m not surprise at all, he has been signing documents without reading through and in the end he will say he was misled. God save Ghana
Who’s he the professor?
He should let us think.
He himself can also be marked and scored by his own students but because he is so called professor, he will not admit it.
I have met several professors setting wrong questions as well as wrong options
Once, it’s for international consumption, it must conform!!
When you signed, it is yours line, hook and sinker!!
You accept everything thus liable and responsible!!
Which of the scripts convey the message of Jerry’s death; & which one will bring him back to life.
Where we are speaking sence, ypu are maring grammar
There is no grammatical mistake in President Nana Addo’s message. I would score this Professor 3 over ten. Nana’s message carries, as it should, the emotional import of the announcement. The Prof’s remarks dilutes the text into a flat piece of innert feelingless information. Nana’s rather incorporates the poetics which derives from a solid and centuries old language of his Akan people. On the other hand, the Professor’s diction, thoughts and concerns derive from language called Swahili which is recent, and was forged from a confused and incoherent mixture of so many languages including Arabic, Hausa, and other local languages of East Africa. Finally, different cultures perceive the phenomenon of death differently and so they announce it differently, and mourn differently. And who told this Prof that Ghana is going to give J.J. a Kenyan funeral?
That has been our problem, we don’t want to learn at all.
So the Professor feels that the grammar is the priority and not the bereavement!
So the Professor feels that the grammar is the priority and not the bereavement!
I think the teacher is right
The teacher did great work, he is tight
If u spoke wrong grammar the should correct u. If English is our language, why? Are we schooling.
Although there is no perfection in humanistic act, but we must work to conform with perfection. The prof. is right to make corrections where necessary. Some of us have just learned from the teacher’s corrections. Thank you very much profession. May you live long.
You continue posting he will come again and mark your grammar also
I don’t think this corrections are necessary. What is important here is the announcement of the death of our former President, period.
You people should keep saying that and don’t learn. You will always be ridiculed at moments that you need sympathy