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Ambiguous terms in academia

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  • KHAY 9 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

  • francis kwarteng 9 years ago

    Dear Brother Idris,

    Where have you been?

    I hope you are just fine.

    Thanks.

  • Pacas 9 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.

  • Akadu Mensema 9 years ago

    This is rituals of renaming

  • Joe Turkey 9 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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  • Sammy, Taifa 9 years ago

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

  • Nemesis 9 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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  • Pacas 9 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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  • Nemesis 9 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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  • Ras Nabia 9 years ago

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

  • Muscatela 9 years ago

    Nice work. Kudos.

  • JB Osei-Brown 9 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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  • PACAS 9 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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  • JB Osei-Brown 9 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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