Amoako-Baah Is Confusing Two Things Here

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• Mohammjed MAIGA 11 years ago

  Okoampah-Ahoofiii, what sort of English do you teach those poor juvenile delinquents?
  
  A copycat is a noun (a person who copies what another person does). We know the root word as "copy".
  
  You said: "... President John Ag ...
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  Okoampah-Ahoofiii, what sort of English do you teach those poor juvenile delinquents?
  
  A copycat is a noun (a person who copies what another person does). We know the root word as "copy".
  
  You said: "... President John Agyekum-Kufuor had the prime and golden opportunity to move the nation forward in this regard but grossly misfired with his namby-pamby copycating of South Africa's Truth and Reconcilliation Commission (TRC)..."
  
  There can't be any verb such as "copycat" for which you will even have the progressive form and precede it with the tired cliche of "namby-pamby" to worsen your language use problems.
  
  One can only copy another, not copycat him/her. Aaaaaaaabah!! Turn away from this useless English usage and avoid the Thesaurus for some time to see if you won't write better. What sort of English do you teach at all?

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• Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 11 years ago

  Okoampa is right in this context; you should expose yourself to the concept of authorial license wherefore there is usually nominalization of verbs and verbalization of nouns. Besides, the use of "copy-catting" here is unique ...
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  Okoampa is right in this context; you should expose yourself to the concept of authorial license wherefore there is usually nominalization of verbs and verbalization of nouns. Besides, the use of "copy-catting" here is uniquely appropriate.
  Okoampa's Ph.D is in American History, but he is quite good in writing, although very bad in reasoning. His mind has been ossified in stupidity for over three decades, since he set foot here in America. But his language, in a purely abstract sense, is superb. His errors are minimum.....
  The above notwithstanding, I agree with you that the man is an arrant idiot and a hereditary bigot.

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• Kwesi 11 years ago

  At least that's what he has said himself. Maybe he was comparing some African literary works with those others from the rest of the world.
  
  At any rate, what your PhD is on is not necessarily the thing that you spend the re ...
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  At least that's what he has said himself. Maybe he was comparing some African literary works with those others from the rest of the world.
  
  At any rate, what your PhD is on is not necessarily the thing that you spend the rest of your life in pursuing.
  
  Okoampa's purpose of coming to ghanaweb is to comment on petty Ghanaian politics. This man has said this, this man has done that, this man is this or that. Look at his 2000 articles to ghanaweb. They are all about what someone has said or done in Ghana. They have absolutely nothing to do with his PhD thesis.
  
  Okoampa spends most of his time scouring Ghanaian web pages searching for something to write about. It is not enough for him to read something and comment underneath the article. He has to go write something which he sends to ghanaweb - the only site ready to publish anything sent to it. Akoto doesn't read the articles he receives. He just posts them. That's why you won't see Okoampa's articles on more serious sites like joyonline or peacefm. They don't have time to post trite daily commentaries from Okoampa.
  
  As for his English, his published poetry and prose work seem to be better than what he posts here. The man has a huge vocabulary and purposefully writes the way he does.
  
  But the most important thing on ghanaweb is not the English you write - whether bad or good. It is what you are saying. And as far as that is concerned, Okoampa really doesn't say much that is useful or important. Much of what he writes here comes from a pathological need to write something every day!

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• Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 11 years ago

  The best of my students, and they are quite a remarkable percentage, have a better command of the English language than you, trust me.
  
  I don't have the time to school you here on the fundamentals of English grammar. My sim ...
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  The best of my students, and they are quite a remarkable percentage, have a better command of the English language than you, trust me.
  
  I don't have the time to school you here on the fundamentals of English grammar. My simple advice is go back and read what you have written and then open the dictionary and school yourself.
  
  The fact that you have a problem with English vocabulary and usage does not authorize you to project your linguistic inability and epistemic ignorance on anybody.

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• Mohammjed MAIGA 11 years ago

  You said this:
  
  "The best of my students, and they are quite a remarkable percentage, have a better command of the English language than you, trust me".
  
  Do you know that you have a problem with English, especially, taggi ...
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  You said this:
  
  "The best of my students, and they are quite a remarkable percentage, have a better command of the English language than you, trust me".
  
  Do you know that you have a problem with English, especially, tagging on "trust me" to a complete sentence to give you a comma splice problem?
  
  You are so full of yourself that you don't know where you go wrong easily and quickly. Do I have to "open a dictionary" before following you on Ghanaweb?
  
  Such a nincompoop (your own word?)!! Those who come here just want to read, comprehend issues as they plow the text, without necessarily having to turn to their dictionaries or Thesauruses. You are damn useless for not knowing the simple principle of writing: to write FOR the audience, and not TO the audience!!
  
  Can you not see how your own colleagues laugh you to scorn at that Nassau Community College and learn to do better? Probably, Ghanaweb administers the litmus test which you have failed woefully. Fool.

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• Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 11 years ago

  It is clear that you are not one of my readers, so why don't you read articles written to your retarded intellectual level? Who said I care about Boko Haram boys like you reading my columns?

  It is clear that you are not one of my readers, so why don't you read articles written to your retarded intellectual level? Who said I care about Boko Haram boys like you reading my columns?

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• Mohammjed MAIGA 11 years ago

  Do you claim to be writing for any "captive audience" on Ghanaweb when everybody is complaining about your style? How stupid can you be, Okoampah-Ahoofii?
  
  The first rule that any teacher of writing states is: Write to suit ...
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  Do you claim to be writing for any "captive audience" on Ghanaweb when everybody is complaining about your style? How stupid can you be, Okoampah-Ahoofii?
  
  The first rule that any teacher of writing states is: Write to suit the needs of your audience.
  
  How do you understand such a rule?

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• Swap 11 years ago

  Kwame, tell us in one sentence what the purpose of this article is!
  
  Then tell us what burning need there is for such an article to be written!

  Kwame, tell us in one sentence what the purpose of this article is!
  
  Then tell us what burning need there is for such an article to be written!

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• Mohammjed MAIGA 11 years ago

  This useless community college empty barrel has nothing sensible to say about Ghanaian politics. He sleeps in some junk yard in the Bronx, wakes up from some nightmarish experience only to deceive himself that people think th ...
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  This useless community college empty barrel has nothing sensible to say about Ghanaian politics. He sleeps in some junk yard in the Bronx, wakes up from some nightmarish experience only to deceive himself that people think the way he does, which informs what and how he writes. Such a scumbag!!

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• Kwadwo 11 years ago

  Remember not to be the smartest guy in the room. It is unbecoming, Maiga

  Remember not to be the smartest guy in the room. It is unbecoming, Maiga

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• Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 11 years ago

  Only Makaranta idiots are complaining. Stay out of my lane and mind your darn frigging business!

  Only Makaranta idiots are complaining. Stay out of my lane and mind your darn frigging business!

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• Nii 11 years ago

  Now you respond to people's comments about your senseless rants? Funny old man! You are a disgrace to commonsense! Hahahahaaaa....!

  Now you respond to people's comments about your senseless rants? Funny old man! You are a disgrace to commonsense! Hahahahaaaa....!

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• Nana Ansah 11 years ago

  Ahootan is a namby-pamby boy, the scum of the earth and above all crassly stupid person. He has to first understand constitutional law. Besides, he has to comprehend that all the constitutions in former British colonies Keny ...
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  Ahootan is a namby-pamby boy, the scum of the earth and above all crassly stupid person. He has to first understand constitutional law. Besides, he has to comprehend that all the constitutions in former British colonies Kenya and Ghana being one of them, stem from the Magna Carta as England's legal system was used as a model for many of the colonies when they were developing their own legal systems. Even the American and German constitutions and laws have their genesis from the Magna Carta.
  
  JB Danquah isn't, he wasn't and can never be the Doyen of Gold Coast and Ghanaian politics. Before the lazy minded Danquah appeared on the Gold Coast political scene there were gaints like John Mensah Sarbah whom Danquah plagiarized his Fanti constitution to write his doctors degree. There were also Kobina sekyi, Joe casely Hayford, Brown, Sey who together with Mensah Sarbah co- founded the Gold Coast Aborigines' Rights Protection Society-ARPS.
  
  When it came to the ushering of Ghana into the new era prior to independence and thereafter, Kwame Nkrumah run the show and called the shots. Nkrumah even won elections when he was a jailbird handsdown. Danquah could not make the cut to parliament in back to back elections in 1954 1nd 1956 respectively. So why all the fuss about a nonstarter?
  
  Again Ahootan, try as you might or would Danquah can never capture the world wide image or wear the shoes of Kwame Nkrumah. Danquah always played the second fiddle to Nkrumah. That is the way it is. Basta!
  
  Gold Coast and Ghanaian history has already been written, it has taken it's path and timelines, Danquah the province politician who failed to listen to Casely Hayford to form the West African Union was eclipsed by Kwame Nkrumah who took Joe's vision to a higher level i.e. the Union of Continental African. That is the stuff dreams are made of. That is the bottom line of how great leaders make history. Nkrumah still remains the greatest African that ever walked the continent of Africa. That is the literal truth. Nkrumah lives!

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• Asante Fordjour 11 years ago

  With all respect to Dr Amoako-Baah, he cannot be legally accurate that the Constituent Assembly that drafted Ghana’s Fourth-Republican Constitution lifted most significant and sacred instrument of governance verbatim from t ...
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  With all respect to Dr Amoako-Baah, he cannot be legally accurate that the Constituent Assembly that drafted Ghana’s Fourth-Republican Constitution lifted most significant and sacred instrument of governance verbatim from the Kenyans. Ghana has unparallel constitutional and legal history in Africa.
  
  [1] Whereas Ghana attained its independence on 06 March 1957, Kenyans had theirs from Britain on 12 December 1963. Kenyan’s independence journey took off in the 1950s with the Mau Mau Rebellion.
  
  [2] This was long after nationalists such as John Mensah Sarbah, J. W. Sey, J. P. Brown and J. E. Casely, had formed the Gold Coast Aborigines' Rights Protection Society (ARPS), to protest the Crown Lands Bill of 1896 and the Lands Bill of 1897. Our current Constitution reflects the corrections and revisions of our ups-and-downs throughout our traditional and colonial experiences and of course, various civilian-cum-military attempts to rule ourselves.
  
  [3] It is for these reasons that one might be hesitant and with all respect; to buy into the idea that the text and the spirit in the 1992 Fourth Republican Constitution of Ghana were conceived by hairdressers and carpenters. This is doubtful, at least, not where we had had the Independence Constitution of 1957; the 1960 Republican Constitution; not forgetting the 1969 and the 1979 Constitutions as reference points.
  
  [4] Most Constitutional and Legal historians might agree that if there had ever been any constitutional "plagiarism" in our current legal document, then for starters, it might be fair to trace it to both the First Republican (1960) and the Second Republican (1969) Constitutions. Others might even recommend for the reading of the Re Akoto Case, where the then Attorney-General Geoffrey Bing and Dr J.B. Dankwa locked horns over the true interpretation of Art 13(1) of the 1960 Constitution- the presidential solemn declaration on assumption of power to uphold human rights and civil liberties of the people of Ghana. And whether or not the 1960 Constitution is likened to the British Constitution, where Parliament is sovereign and Supreme in its legislative making and here, in the legislation of the (PDA) 1958 (No.17)
  
  [5] Dankwa acknowledges the parliamentary supremacy of the Ghanaian Parliament but argued that that cannot be equated to that of the British Parliament. Attorney-General Geoffrey Bing disagreed.
  
  Today, most constitutional practitioners and observers are of the belief that the launch-pad of the 1992 Fourth Republican Constitution takes hybrid of US and Westminster- A Republican and Parliamentary system, it can hardly be ignored that the spirit and the text of the Constitution is heavily pregnant with the inefficacies of the First, Second and the Third Republican Constitutions but not that of Kenya.

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• YAW 11 years ago

  Far too much sneering from this useless Kwame Okansemhunu Akasanoma,Jr

  Far too much sneering from this useless Kwame Okansemhunu Akasanoma,Jr

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