Need we refine our language and content on ghanaweb?

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• ???????????????? 12 years ago

  it is the NPP supporters who are the first to insult...the first to condemn without proof...

  it is the NPP supporters who are the first to insult...the first to condemn without proof...

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• Appletus 12 years ago

  That is the beauty of democracy; to express your mind. We should not be gagged to speak nor care much about language. Are you sidelining the views of those who are not as good as you are in the language?
  Let it work this way ...
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  That is the beauty of democracy; to express your mind. We should not be gagged to speak nor care much about language. Are you sidelining the views of those who are not as good as you are in the language?
  Let it work this way. People are learning and learn everyday. The system will self correct

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• Samuel 12 years ago

  The fact that you have the right of freedom of speech does not mean you can insult freely. Your freedom ends at where somebody's own begin. We need not abuse our fellow man verbally and expect the system to sanitise itself. L ...
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  The fact that you have the right of freedom of speech does not mean you can insult freely. Your freedom ends at where somebody's own begin. We need not abuse our fellow man verbally and expect the system to sanitise itself. Let us exercise extreme restraint and think twice before any endeavour.

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• Agyeman 12 years ago

  This is a lost battle and its not a uniquely Ghanaian problem.Every news site from BBC,youtube, Chinasmack.com to Lusaka Times to Zim Herald to Nation.co.ke,The Economist to every other online publication i've seen all have t ...
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  This is a lost battle and its not a uniquely Ghanaian problem.Every news site from BBC,youtube, Chinasmack.com to Lusaka Times to Zim Herald to Nation.co.ke,The Economist to every other online publication i've seen all have this issue to deal with.All of these sites deal with uncouth language,disrespect and all flaws that comes with being human.

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• alfa-alfa 12 years ago

  EGYA KWESI ATA SEKYI,
  
  The version of the Bible that I read says, at John 11:35, "AND JESUS WEPT".
  
  CHECK YOUR BIBLE AGAIN, PLEASE,,,,,,,,,,,

  EGYA KWESI ATA SEKYI,
  
  The version of the Bible that I read says, at John 11:35, "AND JESUS WEPT".
  
  CHECK YOUR BIBLE AGAIN, PLEASE,,,,,,,,,,,

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• Kwadwo 12 years ago

  You describe people as "goons" and on another breath calls for language refinement on Ghanaweb!!! What a moron.

  You describe people as "goons" and on another breath calls for language refinement on Ghanaweb!!! What a moron.

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• DOBOLI 12 years ago

  If this is refine I dont know what you talking about. I have never seen name call and discribing people like animals.
  Without insults some of us wouldnt open ghanaweb. leave it the way it is. Its good people open out and le ...
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  If this is refine I dont know what you talking about. I have never seen name call and discribing people like animals.
  Without insults some of us wouldnt open ghanaweb. leave it the way it is. Its good people open out and let us know how they feel.

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• VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTION 12 years ago

  This press forum should be as it is. If one don't like it move on.The forum hould not be strutchered or regulated choke opinions from free will expressing of thoughts and idiocencracies.This depicts democrazy.
  
  No system of ...
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  This press forum should be as it is. If one don't like it move on.The forum hould not be strutchered or regulated choke opinions from free will expressing of thoughts and idiocencracies.This depicts democrazy.
  
  No system of government has been assigned by God for a nation. God the Jehovah endorsed Kingship to the land of Judah which has been termed Israel of today. Kingship operates like dictators of today without longitivity of lineages. I found it perplexing for another systems of government to give sanctions to another because of differences in ideologies. That is absurd and should be denounced in all spheres of systems. It comes under intolerance and undemocratic. Allow nations to make their choices of governments untill the citizens disaproof of it. Without sanctions N. Koreans or Cuba will come to know what others have and make their own decisions to go back massively to overthrow what they have. Sanction and all other manauverings to destroy is still not from God. It is chaotic, havoc and therefore cannot promote peace. The Lord God have not seize to offer these abominable nations air to breathe, rain to water their lands and sunshine to energise life forms, who dare you want to famished them. It is just a mere political moves ad has no connotations to things of God they claim they serve. Am I being cunning (angel of light)or roaring lion? take your pick and compare my writings.

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• VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTION 12 years ago

  When Jesus was being tempted during his forty day fasten, the devil reached him with the appearance of Kejetia coming to view in case Jesus would bow to him and Jesus said,"Tweaaaa for kajetia". Then the devil took him to Ho ...
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  When Jesus was being tempted during his forty day fasten, the devil reached him with the appearance of Kejetia coming to view in case Jesus would bow to him and Jesus said,"Tweaaaa for kajetia". Then the devil took him to Hong kong type municipalities like manhanttan, los angeles, miami and Jesus retorted, well they're beautiful, but man should not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeded from the mouth of the Lord God. Meaning not just love, faith, grace, hope, joy, honor, glory but the total SALVATION PLOY. The Americans would say the whole "anchelader"

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• KPOKPLOMAJA 12 years ago

  WHAT ABOUT THIS? NANA AKUFFO ADDO'S PENIS IS THE LARGEST IN THE WHOLE EASTERN REGION AND HIS TESTICLE AS BIG AS HIS HEAD. ARE YOU O.K. NOW?

  WHAT ABOUT THIS? NANA AKUFFO ADDO'S PENIS IS THE LARGEST IN THE WHOLE EASTERN REGION AND HIS TESTICLE AS BIG AS HIS HEAD. ARE YOU O.K. NOW?

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• Ken Boemah 12 years ago

  I share your view

  I share your view

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• Paa Kwesi Mintah 12 years ago

  Pheeeeew! My cousin is on a roll and no one is going to stop him in the pulpit.
  
  BTW where did you obtain your preacher's license? TB Joshua or Aladura?
  
  Cousin, something has really ticked you off. Tell me what's bugging ...
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  Pheeeeew! My cousin is on a roll and no one is going to stop him in the pulpit.
  
  BTW where did you obtain your preacher's license? TB Joshua or Aladura?
  
  Cousin, something has really ticked you off. Tell me what's bugging you today for this preachy article?
  
  Your article about "language" and "Content" on Ghanaweb starts with a passage from the bible book of John. For a moment I thought you were berating the various Johns we've had the misfortune of ruling and lording over us from the Castle.
  
  What has really got your goat today?
  
  Right after the bible you pick up Merriam Webster's dictionary to explain to us who a goon is, as if we don't know you used to be a goon, during Aboakyir, taunting my Tuafo Asafomba anything we hauled in 10 point antler deers against the skinny faun you Dentsefo manage to steal.
  
  Need we hear about the etymology of the word "Goon" before you make your point? Haba, cousin. This is the worrying Listology I've requested you to refrain from: Alice the Goon, EC Seger, Maame Preba and other assorted characters of your wildest imagination.
  
  Aah, I did catch one of perfunctory acronyms thrown in your articles for a good measure of your scholarship. Today I caught only "PRO"
  
  After unleashing your angst on your readership (most of who admire you exclusively), you summon Merriam Webster again to tell us what "Gravitas" mean.
  
  It seems you consider those of us who read you so dumb we require your unfailing patronage in certain matters of acronyms, listology and Webster definitions. We'll soon pay you tuition fees. I'll send mine per Western Union.
  
  Cousin, according to the first law of psychology:
  
  "You become what you hate"
  
  In your preachy effort against bad language on Ghanaweb, here's what you wrote in your article:
  
  "Ghanaweb has been grossly debased and abused by the vociferous vituperations of voluble vultures of base and irrational mentality, so much so that many readers and commentators have withdrawn and held back."
  
  Now tell us, who are these-
  
  vociferous vituperations of voluble vultures " "vociferous vituperations of voluble vultures" "vociferous vituperations of voluble vultures"
  
  I admire how you express yourself, even in anger, in flowery poetry.
  
  The only one I remember learning and never forgot was "Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled pepper". Someday I'll be able to recite, half asleep-"vociferous vituperations of voluble vultures".
  
  Cousin,the purveyors of manufactured news have an audience in this political game of football. It's about money and selling their newspapers. Others who are emotionally invested in the politics become ready audience for the trash you and I ignore.
  
  Anyway, no one is going to take you advice, including Ahoofe and others I choose not to read.
  
  Saaalute, from forehead to waist, whaaaam.

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• Kojo T 12 years ago

  I guess he had too much Zambian beer the night before. I told him to go for the Congolais type BB . There is a good one brewed in Gisenyi. Keep it up as it brings out the laughter . Have a good day both of ya'

  I guess he had too much Zambian beer the night before. I told him to go for the Congolais type BB . There is a good one brewed in Gisenyi. Keep it up as it brings out the laughter . Have a good day both of ya'

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• Kwesi Sakyi 12 years ago

  Hi Kojoga T, thanks for your timely admonition but I am afraid if I start the Congolese brew called bula matari, I will start seeing black stars and visions and apparitions which won't be nice for ghanaweb. Chao

  Hi Kojoga T, thanks for your timely admonition but I am afraid if I start the Congolese brew called bula matari, I will start seeing black stars and visions and apparitions which won't be nice for ghanaweb. Chao

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• mensah abrampa 12 years ago

  Ghanaweb has been a revelation.Suddenly it has become a fertile ground for news dissemination and a must-read for millions of information starved ghanaians especially those in the diaspora.
  What I don't appreciate so much is ...
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  Ghanaweb has been a revelation.Suddenly it has become a fertile ground for news dissemination and a must-read for millions of information starved ghanaians especially those in the diaspora.
  What I don't appreciate so much is the profusion of vulgarity, profanity, intemperate language and gross disrespect for unfriendly opinions but I'd rather have these any day than a return to the emasculated press and the culture of silence that prevailed under Nkrumah and Rawlings.There's no room for dissent and in the totalitarian environment free expression of public opinion is crushed.
  Civility will come after we've fine-tuned every aspect of our national life and cool heads will finally prevail..It's a growing up process and practice will surely make us perfect.
  Ghanaweb is a microcosm of what's happening across Ghana. We're more polarised than we've ever been in our nation's history. Tribal bigotry, lack of transparency and accountability in government contribute to promote the peddling of misinformation,half truths, and unsubstatiated allegations and our collective desire for democracy and development is stymied by government red tape. If the population could access and exchange info more safely,then the evolution towards democracy would be fostered more quickly. All is not lost.Practice will make us perfect. We must keep doing what we're doing and never forget to keep the government standing on its toes. A change will come.

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• Kwesi Sakyi 12 years ago

  I salute you Mensah Abrampa for your kind rejoinder. I look forward to seeing you more often on ghanaweb with your deep insights and sleek writing skills. You should also become a columnist.

  I salute you Mensah Abrampa for your kind rejoinder. I look forward to seeing you more often on ghanaweb with your deep insights and sleek writing skills. You should also become a columnist.

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• Kwesi Sakyi 12 years ago

  Sometimes one has to don on the hat of James Brown or Bob Marley and say it loud. Sometimes you need to borrow the garb of Sofo Muoko to rub in the chilli to their sore and feeble brains. I wish I knew how to smoke anything, ...
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  Sometimes one has to don on the hat of James Brown or Bob Marley and say it loud. Sometimes you need to borrow the garb of Sofo Muoko to rub in the chilli to their sore and feeble brains. I wish I knew how to smoke anything, then it would have been way worse than the current scenario of my prattling. I salute you Cousin for your lowdown, and baring your thoughts free and square. Keep it up. I have a special treat for you next week. Can you have whiffs of it? Wabaaam! Oyiwa ooooo, abowa yi y3 baambara! Sora bete!

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• Whatever 12 years ago

  The good ones among us should continuously strive to raise the standard in this forum and also elsewhere with facts and figures, respect and patriotism. We can't allow this forum to be the playground of perverts and deviants. ...
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  The good ones among us should continuously strive to raise the standard in this forum and also elsewhere with facts and figures, respect and patriotism. We can't allow this forum to be the playground of perverts and deviants. We must fight back all the time because indication are that they won't go away any time soon.

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• ONUA 12 years ago

  Remember, Rome, they say was not built in a day.

  Remember, Rome, they say was not built in a day.

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

  Clearly, Ghanaweb and some of the other online fora, have become avenues for some people to vent out some pent out feelings of many dimensions: political frustrations, anger, disappointments, impotency, tribal bigotry and pre ...
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  Clearly, Ghanaweb and some of the other online fora, have become avenues for some people to vent out some pent out feelings of many dimensions: political frustrations, anger, disappointments, impotency, tribal bigotry and prejudices, personal demons and hatreds, name it, you'd find someone expressing it!
  
  Some of us witnessed the emergence of these insults, false accusations and claims, etc., etc. in the early '90s, and even though as and Ewe, we were at the receiving end of the attacks, we defended the right of those people to express their views. We argue that it is better for them to air such sentiments, false claims and accusations so that we can deal with them openly, instead of bottling them inside and eventually exploding in actual conflict, for instance. We argued, for instance, that cyber tribal war is better that actual tribal war in Ghana! Of course, in dealing with them, we exposed those expressing such views as foolish and ignorant. We just DIDN'T insult them back as foolish and ignorant people: we provided facts and arguments to show them as such. They melted away and some even reformed completely. That's how we managed to clean Okyeame of the trash we see on Ghanaweb today. But as I wrote in one article posted on Ghanaweb explaining how the present VR and Ewes became part of the Gold Coast and then Ghana, the worm-wood from which these characters emerge is our school system, so until that system is cleaned up, we shall continue to have the uncouth, and ignorant yobos polluting the atmosphere with their nauseating flatulence!
  
  Andy-K

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