Our Final Thoughts On Ghanaian Journalism 4

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Ugly Akufo Addo 11 years ago

He behave as a lunat

He behave as a lunat
ADJOA WANGARA 11 years ago

I thought the water-head Francis Kwarteng intended writing about "Our Final Thoughts On Ghanaian Journalism." Instead the insane guy has written an unrelated fuck! about a certain baseless and senseless crap.

I thought the water-head Francis Kwarteng intended writing about "Our Final Thoughts On Ghanaian Journalism." Instead the insane guy has written an unrelated fuck! about a certain baseless and senseless crap.
francis kwarteng 11 years ago

Adjoa Wangara,

I asked my 9-year-old niece this morning whether she could recommend any literary websites for kids (in your particular case).

She told me to tell you to go to TIME FOR KIDS (Link: www.timeforkids.com) ...
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Adjoa Wangara,

I asked my 9-year-old niece this morning whether she could recommend any literary websites for kids (in your particular case).

She told me to tell you to go to TIME FOR KIDS (Link: www.timeforkids.com) where you can find some kids stuff to read. She also said this is the kinds of websites she and her friends visit occasionally.

I think you should visit there quite often. I have visited the site once she told me about it. It is good. I think it is the kind of website whose topical indulgences are specifically tailored to readers of your kind. Nothing posted there is sophisticated. It is strictly for kids.

Your "intellect" will surely be piqued once you get used to the website.

On my own, however, I have found this other website for you; it is called Literary Websites for High School Students (Link: www.owsley.kyschools.us/Page/108).

Both websites are free. You don't have to par a dime. You, GIRLS SP, and your friends can visit these websites. The point is that serious and critical readers can debate tough issues on Ghanaweb while you and your friends play on these literary websites for kids.

In any case my 9-year-old niece has promised to get me additional literary websites for kids. I shall keep you apprised of them once she makes them available to me.

I hope I have been helpful. You can then tell the bigger, I mean older, guys in your families to to read my next article!

Have a great week!
Simon 11 years ago

One can quickly deduce from your aggression that you are not better than the 9-year-old kids you are talking about.

By the way I find your write ups not educative and senseless, besides your attacks on commentators.

One can quickly deduce from your aggression that you are not better than the 9-year-old kids you are talking about.

By the way I find your write ups not educative and senseless, besides your attacks on commentators.
francis kwarteng 11 years ago

Dear Simon,

You sound like Adjoa Wangara and GIRLS SP. Or, are you their spokesperson?

And who cares whether you find my pieces intelligent or educative?

You have never impacted me in any way, so why should I care w ...
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Dear Simon,

You sound like Adjoa Wangara and GIRLS SP. Or, are you their spokesperson?

And who cares whether you find my pieces intelligent or educative?

You have never impacted me in any way, so why should I care what you say?

Anyway, whatever you think of my writings is your cup of tea to drink alone.

Write your sensible and educative ones and let us read them and critique them!

That is what intelligent critics do! They don't just say empty words and run away! I dare you to write yours and let's critique them!

Have you bothered to find out why people like Adjoa Wangara insult columnists by throwing ethnic epithets at them, rather than constructively critiquing their work?

Do you think any intelligent adult will resort to insults rather to constructive engagement even when he disagrees with you?

That is why I find people like Adjoa Wangara kids. I find his insults childish, not to me specifically but to intelligent scholars like Dr. Michael Bokor.

I suggested those two websites for him to visit just so he can learn how intelligent kids behave. You will never find one child insult the other on these websites. That is the purpose of my recommending the two literary websites for kids to him and GIRLS SP!

Intelligent critics don't insult. They criticize constructively. Besides, what I am saying here has nothing to do with me. I rather you keep quite if you have nothing intelligent to say than

My 9-year-old niece loves to read commentators like Adjoa Wangara and GIRLS SP. You know why? She does not find the kind of rubbish Adjoa Wangara and GIRLS SP write on Ghanaweb on the children websites she visits.

It is also why she thinks Adjoa Wangara might be a kid playing pranks on Ghanaweb. This is primarily her views!

Finally, let me say it to you again that I care less how you see my articles. Whether they are senseless, stupid, or uneducative matters in the least to me.

I PERSONALLY know many who read my articles!

Do whatever you like with them. You can even burn my articles once they are posted on Ghanaweb. That is your cup of tea. Tell Adjoa Wangara and GIRLS SP to visit the websites. They can learn something useful from intelligent kids.

Thanks.
Simon 11 years ago

Why are you always fighting the people? Are you perhaps suffering from inferiority complexes?

Why are you always fighting the people? Are you perhaps suffering from inferiority complexes?
francis kwarteng 11 years ago

Dear Simon 9or whatever you call yourself),

Yes, I have an inferiority complex. A big one!

Don't use "perhaps." I have inferiority complex! What about you, superiority complex?

Are you no longer comfortable with the ...
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Dear Simon 9or whatever you call yourself),

Yes, I have an inferiority complex. A big one!

Don't use "perhaps." I have inferiority complex! What about you, superiority complex?

Are you no longer comfortable with the monikers Adjoa Wangara and GIRLS SP?

Please join Adjoa Wanagara and GIRLS SP as they explore the webistes I recommended to them.

My work is done. Leave mo to work on my next article. Some serious commentators have asked me to that do. Therefore, don't expect any further response from me the next time you post a comment (to these comments of mine).

I have to give my critical readers what they ask for. And you see why I keep reminding you that there are serious readers out there on Ghanaweb! Your likes don't count in the world of critical matters!

Have a great week!

Thanks.
GIRLS SP 11 years ago

His caption is. "Our Final Thoughts On Ghanaian Journalism 4"

But the idiot has written a book, totally about a different nonsense.

His caption is. "Our Final Thoughts On Ghanaian Journalism 4"

But the idiot has written a book, totally about a different nonsense.
KBK 11 years ago

Why the article appears twice?

And it looks like we have already seen the "final thoughts" on the topic, haven't we?

Why the article appears twice?

And it looks like we have already seen the "final thoughts" on the topic, haven't we?
francis kwarteng 11 years ago

Dear KBK,

Good day.

The "Our Final Thoughts On Ghanaian Journalism" is a series. This part ends it for now.

I shall return again on this very topic in the near future. There is a lot I have to write on this subject ...
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Dear KBK,

Good day.

The "Our Final Thoughts On Ghanaian Journalism" is a series. This part ends it for now.

I shall return again on this very topic in the near future. There is a lot I have to write on this subject matter.

It is a subject I can write a 1000-page book on. Remember also that all the parts you have read so far are merely summaries.

Trust me, I say this because this is an area I am well-versed in. There is so much I have not said yet. Besides, I want to move on to other important subject matters.

Finally, I made a mistake of sending the same article twice for whatever reasons.

Thanks, KBK.

ADJOA WANGARA 11 years ago

Listen to the tautology from the insane, water-head and buga-buga columnist francis Kwarteng: "I shall return again."

Author: francis kwarteng
Date: 2014-12-07 17:51:55
Comment to:Why did this article come twice?

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Listen to the tautology from the insane, water-head and buga-buga columnist francis Kwarteng: "I shall return again."

Author: francis kwarteng
Date: 2014-12-07 17:51:55
Comment to:Why did this article come twice?

Dear KBK,

Good day.

The "Our Final Thoughts On Ghanaian Journalism" is a series. This part ends it for now.

I shall return again on this very topic in the near future. There is a lot I have to write on this subject matter.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 11 years ago

Francis style is heavy, didactic and pedantic. Give him the chance to express his views since we have democracy and FOI. He may not have meant his writing for you. Besides, who knows his motives? You can pick up nuggets of kn ...
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Francis style is heavy, didactic and pedantic. Give him the chance to express his views since we have democracy and FOI. He may not have meant his writing for you. Besides, who knows his motives? You can pick up nuggets of knowledge and snippets of facts if you read diligently and religiously. Please be soft on my co-writer.
francis kwarteng 11 years ago

Prof. Sakyi,

Thanks for the kind comments.

Prof. Sakyi,

Thanks for the kind comments.
ADJOA WANGARA 11 years ago

If all those non-sense amalgamated and deviated paragraphs of essays posted by Francis Kwarteng to Ghanaweb can be rated or termed as "nugget of knowledge," then we are really rather in the "era of bleeding fools."

Kwart ...
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If all those non-sense amalgamated and deviated paragraphs of essays posted by Francis Kwarteng to Ghanaweb can be rated or termed as "nugget of knowledge," then we are really rather in the "era of bleeding fools."

Kwarteng makes no single sense, besides democracy does not necessarily allow incompetent nonentities to poisoning the public with baseless and fruitless information. There is no single article, till now posted by Francis Kwarteng which captured a reasonable paragraph or made sense in a whole.

Kwarteng is of the opinion or thinks implementing "copy and paste" big words makes an extra ordinary composition on websites or puts him on top. And each time after posting his crap, he will turn around to attack commentators. I am sorry but the guy is primitive.
francis kwarteng 11 years ago

Adjoa Wangara,

Tell (or describe) Ghanaweb readers all the systems of writing techniques available to writers.

Maybe I have to do an exhaustive piece on all the major writing techniques, at least in the English world, ...
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Adjoa Wangara,

Tell (or describe) Ghanaweb readers all the systems of writing techniques available to writers.

Maybe I have to do an exhaustive piece on all the major writing techniques, at least in the English world, in the world for you to understand what goes in the academy.

I tried to write a few pieces in prose poetry on Ghanaweb and your kind began to complain. They took the substance of what I had to say out of context because they knew practically nothing about prose poetry. This is the same problem you are having.

There so Nobel Laureates (literature), Pulitzer Prize winners, Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2nd prestigious literature after the Nobel Prize in Literature), etc., who write the way you are describing.

I have presented many of these world-class writers in most of my writings but people like you don't see. Most Ghanaians I have across, even English and literature majors, mistakenly think there is one linear of writing. I don't blame them. There are so many writing formulae I have not yet displayed on Ghanaweb.

You may want to read my series "Fate of A Sick Scholar." In there I list many of the world's greatest writers from the past 100 years. I have read most of the books these writers have written. And they com

After that, you should know that my writing style is one of the commenest in the world of writing. I don't blame you too much because you seem hopeslessly ignorant about the world of orthography and writing!

It is our faulty educational system and the failure of people to read, to expand their reading abilities to literature from every corner of the world, as I have in my entire life.

It is clear from your everyday comments you are not a reader, or very literate in orthography and achemes of writing. However, I don't blame you. There are one or two PhD holders (in English and literature) parading on Ghanaweb who are confused as you are. Like you, they think there is one simple, linear way of writing.

This is why I have repeatedly said I don't write for your kind. These simple essays I write on Ghanaweb are too comlicated for your kind. And you have not seen anything yet. You are going to see more, hundreds, of the writing style you are complaining about.

Meanwhile, I don't attack commentators. You have seen how I have dealt with intelligent, well-informed, and constructive critics. Some are English professors and are too familiar with what I write.

I only try to put ill-informed and ignorant folks like where you belong. You don't call intelligent and academically accomplished schaolrs like Dr. Michael Bokor "Dirty Ewe" when you can understand the simple things they write about. Dr. Bokor has tried to write in the simplest of English language, yet ignorant folks like you still complain.

What if he tries to write as highly technical as he always has with his award-winning essays (in the American Academy)? What would you say?

I shall try to do a piece on all the writing schemes in the world on Ghanaweb (in the near future) for your kind to know what goies on the in the world.

In the meantime, expect hundreds of the style you are complaining about. YOU ARE GOING TO SEE EVEN MORE "BIG WORDS," MORE MEANDERING ESSAYS, ETC. THAT IS HOW MY STAUNCHEST READERS UNDERSTAND ME! AND YOU ARE NOT ONE OF THEM.

And what you say are "big words" are everyday words if you are a regular reader, which you are not. As a good advice to you, you can start visiting the two chilldren websites I gave (www.timeforkids.com).

Read for yourself the kinds of articles that are written for American children to read. See the level of vocabulary writers use in their write-ups for American kids and see whether they are not above yours.

Besides, I have taught a few American kids (English, maths, history, writing, etc) and you will be surprised the caliber of newspaper articles they are forced to read as part of their reading and writing homework.

Trust me, some of these reading and writing assignments for midddle school American children are way above your standard, given your vocabulary level and weak writing skills on Ghanaweb.

To tell you the truth, some of these kids (American-born Ghanaian children) write way better than you do on Ghanaweb. Don't take this as an insult (I want to help you; besides I am not too infatuated with grammar, etc. But you give me no choice. Why? Because you are forcing yourself into a territory you have no clue about!). Finally, some of these children I have taught range from 12 to 18 years. Some of them write really good! I bet you you might not understand some of them!

Even my 9-year-old niece has relatively good writing skills and an enviable vocabulary for her age. She is an avid reader and one of the fastest readers I have ever come across in my entire life. I am saying this not because she is a family member. I simpley like people who like to read voraciously and know what tme it is!

Interestngly, she occasionally reads your comments and easily picks out some of your grammatical errors and weak sentence constructions. Do you have any idea how many books she reads when on vacation?

We Ghanaians don't read! You are not alone! That is one of the greatest weaknesses of our educational system.
Remember that I don't write for you. And the way I write is never going to change because of people like you. Never!

I have never had you in mind whenever I write. And I will never have you in mind when I write in the future. I can probably do that only when I write for Time For Kids. I know people who come to Ghanaweb to read are not kids.

Therefore, be prepared to write more of your chilish commentaries whenever my articles are published on Ghanaweb because I am not ready to write for Time For Kids yet (www.timeforkids.com). More big words and meandering essays to come. Get ready!
ADJOA WANGARA 11 years ago

Francis Kwarteng, so you want to tell people that with this kind of your "2by4" English, you use to teach English in USA. Are you serious?

Kwarteng, you have poisoned some children in America, if it's really true. Haleluj ...
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Francis Kwarteng, so you want to tell people that with this kind of your "2by4" English, you use to teach English in USA. Are you serious?

Kwarteng, you have poisoned some children in America, if it's really true. Haleluja!!! you can not even write the word middle. Your whole English is a convolution.

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NOW HERE WE GO! Francis Kwarteng wrote:

"Besides, I have taught a few American kids (English, maths, history, writing, etc) and you will be surprised the caliber of newspaper articles they are forced to read as part of their reading and writing homework.

Trust me, some of these reading and writing assignments for midddle school American children are way above your standard, given your vocabulary level and weak writing skills on Ghanaweb.

To tell you the truth, some of these kids (American-born Ghanaian children) write way better than you do on Ghanaweb. Don't take this as an insult (I want to help you; besides I am not too infatuated with grammar, etc. But you give me no choice. Why? Because you are forcing yourself into a territory you have no clue about!). Finally, some of these children I have taught range from 12 to 18 years. Some of them write really good! I bet you you might not understand some of them!"

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Autho: francis kwarteng
Date: 2014-12-08 19:36:15
Comment to: Nugget of knowledge indeed!

Adjoa Wangara,

Tell (or describe) Ghanaweb readers all the systems of writing techniques available to writers.

-->> "Maybe I have to do an exhaustive piece on all the major writing techniques, at least in the English world, in the world for you to understand what goes in the academy."

I tried to write a few pieces in prose poetry on Ghanaweb and your kind began to complain. They took the substance of what I had to say out of context because they knew practically nothing about prose poetry. This is the same problem you are having.

--->> " There so Nobel Laureates (literature), Pulitzer Prize winners, Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2nd prestigious literature after the Nobel Prize in Literature), etc., who write the way you are describing."

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Author: francis kwarteng
Date: 2014-12-07 17:51:55

Comment to: Why did this article come twice?

Dear KBK,

Good day.

The "Our Final Thoughts On Ghanaian Journalism" is a series. This part ends it for now.

-->> "I shall return again on this very topic in the near future. There is a lot I have to write on this subject matter."

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