Stop,lying,there very few polyglots in Accra, Anyone who speaks another language other than Twi is insulted.
Stop,lying,there very few polyglots in Accra, Anyone who speaks another language other than Twi is insulted.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Prof. Sakyi,
Another insightful one.
Those with expertise in organization development, operations research and management science, human resource, production economics, organizational culture, multiculturalism,industri ... read full comment
Prof. Sakyi,
Another insightful one.
Those with expertise in organization development, operations research and management science, human resource, production economics, organizational culture, multiculturalism,industrial sociology, occupational psychology, globalization and cultural geography may surely generally appreciate the general outlook of your piece.
Readers who are interested in a multicultural dimension of the nature of work may read want to read Dr. Joshua Halberstam's book, "Work: Making A Living And Making A Life."
The book has some interesting pointers on the nature of work as seen from the point of view of diverse cultures.
The writer is a Rabbi and had given lectures at Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University) and other colleges, a professor of philosphy and ethics, and a successful entreuprenuer. He has made appearances on Oprah Winfrey. He brings an interesting twist to the cultural and philosophical study of work! Let us leave at that!
This is all I can say for now!
Thanks.
Cano 9 years ago
"Let us leave at that"? For a so called English Professor, you make a lot of grammatical mistakes.
"Let us leave at that"? For a so called English Professor, you make a lot of grammatical mistakes.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Prof. Cano,
Don't come back again because you are still going to find more typos (even grammatical errors)in this response. I am not going to proofread it because of you Cano! You will continue to see more of these errors ... read full comment
Prof. Cano,
Don't come back again because you are still going to find more typos (even grammatical errors)in this response. I am not going to proofread it because of you Cano! You will continue to see more of these errors here and in my future comments. Take note!
Hahahahahaha...Did you read your own comments before posting them? Did you see "so called" in your comment? I would not have bothered in the least to bring this up if you have not brought up my typo.
I care less about typos when it is not done for academic purposes. Unconscious ommisions happens everyday.
I have Wole Soyinka's latest publiscations, "Of Africa," here with me with typos. I also have Molefi Kete Asante's "Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change" and it too has typos. I discussed this with Asante about 5 years ago. (Soyinka is an English Professor and has won the Nobel in Literature).
Asante did not care because he felt editors for the book refused to their job. Again, I am not takling about grammatical errors. I am talking about typos. And these are world-class writers.
So, you see, I care so much about academic stuff, not the petty stuff that usually goes on on Ghanaweb.
Besides, you don't need a mastery of English at any level to appreciate the difference betweeen "so-called" or "so called"? "So called" as you have used it in your sentence is a typical example of a grammatical error!
Why are you Justice Sarpong (and Adjoa Wangara) so interested in distracting serious readers from constructive discussions with your childish rants? Tell readers what you make of Sakyi's article!
Just put "it" between "leave" and "at." Let me also assure that 99.99% of the time I don't read over my comments because I don't care about typos. And you will be seeing more, more, and more of these as you read my comments on Ghanaweb!
If you Justuce Sarpong or Adjoa Wangara or whoever wants to play, go to Time For Kids (www.timeforkids.com) and have fun! I will never go over my comments with the view to correcting them!
It is why sometimes you see me write "All errors are mine" at the end of each comment. Sometimes I don't write that because I don't care.
I care only when I am teaching others or submitting an essay to a respectable person or place, that I take time to proofread my essays.
Mind you, there is a world of difference between typos and grammatical mistakes. Apparently you have no clue what the basic difference is. What you see is a typo (typing error), not a grammatical error!
Usually, I see such petty typos in others' comments but I use common sense to reconstruct the sentences wthat I believe makes sense to me.
In any case, you might want to look up at the following concepts (normal errors that occur in typing):
1) Transcription error
2) Transporsition error
3) Elison
4) Metathesis
5) Touch typing
6) Sic
7) Slip of the pen
8) Dogberrryism
I won't go into distorted speech patterns such as Freudian slip (parapraxis), spoonerism, etc.
What is the essence of this lengthy response? To show you that what you crying over, the ommision of "it," is as irrelevant as you so-called "so called" to me. I care more about the logical arguments a writer erects around his central ideas rather than about your childish!
I also care about the intelligence and wisdom a writer displays in his work.You never displayed any of these except to irrelavancies. And when I have to do a serious work, I simply do a serious (I do editing of other's works all the time; I know you will come back telling me I love to blow my horn. Readers ask question and complain when you give them answers).
Finally, I am giving you a lengthy response because I have nothing to do at this moment. I also think you might learn something useful for yourself!
You may want to read more of Justice Sarpong, my Kokoase Brother and the Dean of Ghanaweb English...Hahahahahaha..Next time come up with something more intelligent, making sure to distinguish between basic concepts such as typo and grammatical error! And understand that I care less about these two as the question is not academic or scholarly!
Thanks.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 9 years ago
ACCORDING TO KWARTENG: "I also care about the intelligence and wisdom a writer displays in his work."
Francis Kwarteng, a full idiot who care more about intelligence, how does it work???
ACCORDING TO KWARTENG: "I also care about the intelligence and wisdom a writer displays in his work."
Francis Kwarteng, a full idiot who care more about intelligence, how does it work???
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 9 years ago
Please readers, the post above this one is fake and it was not by me. I am sorry some people have no ethics.
Please readers, the post above this one is fake and it was not by me. I am sorry some people have no ethics.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Prof. Sakyi,
Thanks for the comments.
Of course, any discerning and intelligent reader knows you are not the one. I wonder why Justice Sarpong is afraid to show his real face with facts.
It is sad I don't have any ... read full comment
Prof. Sakyi,
Thanks for the comments.
Of course, any discerning and intelligent reader knows you are not the one. I wonder why Justice Sarpong is afraid to show his real face with facts.
It is sad I don't have any giant to debate me here on Ghanaweb as I have outside Ghanaweb, rather than the likes of Justice Sarpong (Adjoa Wangara/GIRLS SP).
Of course, you and I also understand very well that Ghanaweb is not an academic forum!
It is also unfortunate that people like Justice Sarpong don't call upon their seniors on Ghanaweb to debate me and choose rather to wallow in their trivialities and irrelevances.
With people like Justice Sarpong you have nothing substantial to say, because they come up with nothing useful in the first place.
Justice Sarpong had used the moniker 123 (and several others) in the past to display his childish rants when any of my articles continue to bite him, especialy those ones that dealt with satires on the Asante Empire and and my series on Kwame Nkrumah.
He has not seen anything yet! I have a lawyer friend in London who used to track and thus gave me info on all his monikers (as they went with his IP(s)for me, though I continued to engage him as if I never knew the person who used all those monikers.
The other point is that I have never bothered too much about Justice Sarpong, but to engage him as someone I want to educate because Sarpong is merely like one of those shameless little children (primary school kids) I met while doing my National Services in one of Ghana's little villages.
Sometimes such kids learn something useful while they are constructively engaged. It is why I also keep reminding himm to visit Time For Kids (www.timeforkids.com) where he can learn some useful things from kids, including grammar and decorum.
For instance, you can also see he came up with typos, an irrelevant nag, and when he begins to get a brief lecture he scuttles away under your name. This is why I said he behaves like the little chap I once met in that unnamed village. I engage him in my name and he does so in your name, Kwesi Atta Sakyi!
Don't worry Prof. Sakyi I have given him many typos and grammatical errors in these comments. Let's see how he deals with them!
In the meantime, Justice Sarpong has not seen anything yet. More is coming to him. But I shan't pay him any mind. Just yesterday (around 5:39 PM) I received an email from a reader, also a columnist and one of the finest writers on Ghanaweb, modernghana, etc., not to respond to such commentators.
This columnist had apparently read one of your pieces (which he loved so well), Prof. Sakyi, and realized that I should be selective in my responses to those haters and not to descend to their level. I could infer from his/her email (I could be wrong) that he/she recognizes the face(s) behind these hater(s). Take note that I use the definite article "the" as a postpositive relative to "recognizes."
Anyway let me it here. I would rather have Justice Sarpong's Ghanaweb seniors debate me on any question under the sun that is discussed on Ghanaweb. I can assure you that it is sad and unfortunate when it is the likes of Justice Sarpong (Adjoa Wanagara, GIRLS SP) that I have to engage. I can understand it is Ghanaweb, not an academic journals.
That said, more articles are coming from me in the near future. Stay tuned!
Thanks.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Prof. Sakyi,
I hope this three-part series of yours will not be the end of the debate. We need more!
Thanks.
Prof. Sakyi,
I hope this three-part series of yours will not be the end of the debate. We need more!
Thanks.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 9 years ago
Please make rational comments on the substance of the article and do not fake my name. Observe netiquette and decorum.
Please make rational comments on the substance of the article and do not fake my name. Observe netiquette and decorum.
Kojo T 9 years ago
Where is Prof Mintah? Kwesi we have certain very negative people in our midst who seek to destroy all. They are ill educated and understand zilch about what you have written . Some have been in the West for ages but have acqu ... read full comment
Where is Prof Mintah? Kwesi we have certain very negative people in our midst who seek to destroy all. They are ill educated and understand zilch about what you have written . Some have been in the West for ages but have acquired no knowledge so they are still living in their dim villages. Ignore them
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 9 years ago
I thank you Big Bro Kojo T. Your words console me. Merry Xmas.
I thank you Big Bro Kojo T. Your words console me. Merry Xmas.
Kwesi Attah Sakyi 9 years ago
Kpakpo, be warned not to bite what you can't chew. Do all Ghanaian people speak twi, is twi a national dialect in Ghana?
Comport yourself, be in your line before you face a dismissal.
Kpakpo, be warned not to bite what you can't chew. Do all Ghanaian people speak twi, is twi a national dialect in Ghana?
Comport yourself, be in your line before you face a dismissal.
Mallam Kankane 9 years ago
Kwesi, this is a masterpiece but I wish you had made it into two parts with subheadings.People grasp short essays more than long ones as this.This is my personal view anyway.
Kwesi, this is a masterpiece but I wish you had made it into two parts with subheadings.People grasp short essays more than long ones as this.This is my personal view anyway.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Brother Kojo T,
Don't mind these "destroyers," these straw men
Apparently this person who impersonated Sakyi is a straw man. These straw men have no idea what Kwesi Atta Sakyi and I share, for if they did, they would n ... read full comment
Brother Kojo T,
Don't mind these "destroyers," these straw men
Apparently this person who impersonated Sakyi is a straw man. These straw men have no idea what Kwesi Atta Sakyi and I share, for if they did, they would never have dared fake his name to direct their comments to me.
What are they afraid of? Are they now beginning to realize they losing their battle with me? Are they doing what they are doing out of frustration, scared to debate me under their own names?
Besides, some of these straw men, at least one in particular, are ethnocentric Ghanaweb columnists (I say so because I have received an email from one such columnist) who would have wished I always take to their side because, somehow, they think I am one of those ignorant cartoons who follow blindly. I am not.
I look at the evidential weight and intelligence writers and commentators put in their work. I don't follow Andy's, Pryce's, or Bokor's articles because they are Ewe.
I don't follow Dr. SAS's articles because he's Asante.
I don't follow Sakyi's articles because he's Effutu.
Neither do I follow Kobina Antobam's and Kobina Arthur Kennedy's articles because they are Fantis.
I can say the same of Paul Awuna, Joseph Zeim, and Idris Pacas.
I follow these writers because of their display of sheer intelligence and wisdom and writing skills, among others, not because of their ethnicities.
Kojo T, how I would have wished this commentator who impersonated Sakyi had done so under his own name while debating me (probably you know who this commentator might be).
Apparently he is afraid even of his onw shadow! Let them debate me as intelligent and civilized people do, not hiding behind feeble and cartoonish insults and monikers.
I wish some of my class- and schoolmates on this forum would come out to tell these folks, these cartoonish impersonators, if you will, how I delight in arguing and debating, of course constructive engagements!
Thanks.
Eric Karikari 8 years ago
I do appreciate the honesty and eloquence with which this piece was written but as an organizational and cultural studies scholar, I found it a little hard to accept the sweeping generalizations made about different cultural ... read full comment
I do appreciate the honesty and eloquence with which this piece was written but as an organizational and cultural studies scholar, I found it a little hard to accept the sweeping generalizations made about different cultural groupings. For instance to assume any culture is neutral is to accept the functionalist, deterministic categorization of people, which for me, is quite problematic. More problematic for me, is the assumption that everything Western is good and is thus the way to go. I accept we need to change our attitude towards work but we do not need to change the basic tenets of our cultural identities in order to fit into some globalized capitalist ascription of culture.
Stop,lying,there very few polyglots in Accra, Anyone who speaks another language other than Twi is insulted.
Prof. Sakyi,
Another insightful one.
Those with expertise in organization development, operations research and management science, human resource, production economics, organizational culture, multiculturalism,industri ...
read full comment
"Let us leave at that"? For a so called English Professor, you make a lot of grammatical mistakes.
Prof. Cano,
Don't come back again because you are still going to find more typos (even grammatical errors)in this response. I am not going to proofread it because of you Cano! You will continue to see more of these errors ...
read full comment
ACCORDING TO KWARTENG: "I also care about the intelligence and wisdom a writer displays in his work."
Francis Kwarteng, a full idiot who care more about intelligence, how does it work???
Please readers, the post above this one is fake and it was not by me. I am sorry some people have no ethics.
Prof. Sakyi,
Thanks for the comments.
Of course, any discerning and intelligent reader knows you are not the one. I wonder why Justice Sarpong is afraid to show his real face with facts.
It is sad I don't have any ...
read full comment
Prof. Sakyi,
I hope this three-part series of yours will not be the end of the debate. We need more!
Thanks.
Please make rational comments on the substance of the article and do not fake my name. Observe netiquette and decorum.
Where is Prof Mintah? Kwesi we have certain very negative people in our midst who seek to destroy all. They are ill educated and understand zilch about what you have written . Some have been in the West for ages but have acqu ...
read full comment
I thank you Big Bro Kojo T. Your words console me. Merry Xmas.
Kpakpo, be warned not to bite what you can't chew. Do all Ghanaian people speak twi, is twi a national dialect in Ghana?
Comport yourself, be in your line before you face a dismissal.
Kwesi, this is a masterpiece but I wish you had made it into two parts with subheadings.People grasp short essays more than long ones as this.This is my personal view anyway.
Brother Kojo T,
Don't mind these "destroyers," these straw men
Apparently this person who impersonated Sakyi is a straw man. These straw men have no idea what Kwesi Atta Sakyi and I share, for if they did, they would n ...
read full comment
I do appreciate the honesty and eloquence with which this piece was written but as an organizational and cultural studies scholar, I found it a little hard to accept the sweeping generalizations made about different cultural ...
read full comment