Ambiguous terms in academia

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KHAY 11 years ago

i hope you are writing a book on these corrections to reach many people. I also suggest you send your comments formally to WAEC and GES. Good work done.
God Bless

i hope you are writing a book on these corrections to reach many people. I also suggest you send your comments formally to WAEC and GES. Good work done.
God Bless
francis kwarteng 11 years ago

Dear Brother Idris,

Where have you been?

I hope you are just fine.

Thanks.

Dear Brother Idris,

Where have you been?

I hope you are just fine.

Thanks.
Pacas 11 years ago

Really, I just went off Net for some unknown reasons.

Thank God, I'm back. I guess you're fine as well.

God bless us all.

Really, I just went off Net for some unknown reasons.

Thank God, I'm back. I guess you're fine as well.

God bless us all.
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

This is rituals of renaming

This is rituals of renaming
Joe Turkey 11 years ago

Problem is, the kids who set the exam are, themselves, products of a rotten and useless JSS system - like loud-mouthed Ablakwah. Oh, and I forgot to mention that the JSS system itself was designed and implemented by non-acade ...
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Problem is, the kids who set the exam are, themselves, products of a rotten and useless JSS system - like loud-mouthed Ablakwah. Oh, and I forgot to mention that the JSS system itself was designed and implemented by non-academics (butchers and hairdressers).
Sammy, Taifa 11 years ago

what has Honourable Ablakwah got to do with? be serious for once with your life

what has Honourable Ablakwah got to do with? be serious for once with your life
Nemesis 11 years ago

An exceptionally good one. However, I stumbled on a few typographical errors, such as the ones below: 1. "The tendency is form many teachers/students to wrongly..."
2. "Do you best to avoid unpardonably errors".
3. "During ...
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An exceptionally good one. However, I stumbled on a few typographical errors, such as the ones below: 1. "The tendency is form many teachers/students to wrongly..."
2. "Do you best to avoid unpardonably errors".
3. "During teaching, some of use chalk to write onto the chalkboard, while others use..."
You've embarked on a very good course, so edifying and educative. But someone could put up the argument that if you can make typographical errors, then the exam council examples you cited, could possibly have been so too.
Pacas 11 years ago

Thank you for your attention.

However, the 'errors' dictated here are non-topographical. Rather, they are due to my 'failure' to proofread the document before sending.

Notice that I am the writer, typer/typsetter, proof ...
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Thank you for your attention.

However, the 'errors' dictated here are non-topographical. Rather, they are due to my 'failure' to proofread the document before sending.

Notice that I am the writer, typer/typsetter, proofreader and editor. In contrast, WAEC has a team of experts and the papers progressively move from one person to the other until they are released.

It never makes any sense to appreciate your errors because somebody else has committed some. The exams council is one of international reputation. It comprises examiners from 4 different English-speaking African countries.

Can those errors be the result of the combined wisdom or effects of the whole exams council? Let's all contribute our quota to keep educational standards on track.

Thank you for reading.
Nemesis 11 years ago

An exceptionally good one. However, I stumbled on a few typographical errors, such as the ones below: 1. "The tendency is form many teachers/students to wrongly..."
2. "Do you best to avoid unpardonably errors".
3. "During ...
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An exceptionally good one. However, I stumbled on a few typographical errors, such as the ones below: 1. "The tendency is form many teachers/students to wrongly..."
2. "Do you best to avoid unpardonably errors".
3. "During teaching, some of use chalk to write onto the chalkboard, while others use..."
You've embarked on a very good course, so edifying and educative. But someone could put up the argument that if you can make typographical errors, then the exam council examples you cited, could possibly have been so too.
Ras Nabia 11 years ago

very good, how I wish you could send more of this to educate the general public...may God bless you

very good, how I wish you could send more of this to educate the general public...may God bless you

Muscatela 11 years ago

Nice work. Kudos.

Nice work. Kudos.
JB Osei-Brown 11 years ago

"to grease the palms of someone" is an idiom meaning "to bribe", ie to give money to someone for a favour etc.

Perhaps you meant one of the Ghanglish pharses "to grease one's elbows"

There were other minor errors but ...
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"to grease the palms of someone" is an idiom meaning "to bribe", ie to give money to someone for a favour etc.

Perhaps you meant one of the Ghanglish pharses "to grease one's elbows"

There were other minor errors but Nemesis have mentioned them.

Keep on the good work!
PACAS 11 years ago

What you considered an error isn't really! The expression to grease sb's palm is informal.

I consider it not an immortal grammatical sin to expand its informal usage by using it as seen in this write-up. Most probably, th ...
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What you considered an error isn't really! The expression to grease sb's palm is informal.

I consider it not an immortal grammatical sin to expand its informal usage by using it as seen in this write-up. Most probably, the only meaning of this expression you've seen or heard of is that which you concluded is the exact and only meaning. Even so, how would English language expand if every word, term, expression or idiom were to have a fixed, non-expandable meaning?

Also read my reply to Nemesis.

Keep commenting!

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The article is under opinions; your opinions are duly appreciated.
JB Osei-Brown 11 years ago

Well, I have just noticed two :

pharses (phrases) and Nemesis have (Nemesis has)

There may be more though.

Pacas, I forgot that err.. to 'air' is human! 'Onipa hia mframa' as the erstwhile CPP Distritc Commissioner A ...
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Well, I have just noticed two :

pharses (phrases) and Nemesis have (Nemesis has)

There may be more though.

Pacas, I forgot that err.. to 'air' is human! 'Onipa hia mframa' as the erstwhile CPP Distritc Commissioner Akyem Oda Kwame Kwakye translated it.

Keep On the Good Job!

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