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CITIZEN ONE 10 years ago

You just one of those super confused intellectuals, who after enjoying all the benefits of colonization and the English language, you suddenly like to believe you have something to match it.

Almost all Ghanaians of the 60' ...
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You just one of those super confused intellectuals, who after enjoying all the benefits of colonization and the English language, you suddenly like to believe you have something to match it.

Almost all Ghanaians of the 60's and 70's era, speak beautiful English and beautiful native tongues. It was during the Rawlings rein of terror which bastardized our wonderful often admired and envied educational system. The along came John Kuffuor and his ethnocentric Ashanti mafia, who tried to make Ghana an Akan Nation. It is this that has to worry you more because our entire beautiful and colorful culture has become a most rash, uncivilized and jungle behaviour all because of that TWI language which has been imposed on all of the Great Capital City (The Craddle of Sub-African Intellectualism). Listen to our radio stations, listen to our TV shows and local news, and worst of all listen to our fake Akan Pastors, then tell me, what is more confusing to our children than that? Every single day I drive by young school kids going to or returning from school, all you hear is conversations in Twi, about food, clothes and ignorant Twi-TV shows. In our days, we spoke English and we joked about life and everything we learnt in Science, Hygiene, Physics Chemistry and Mathematics. We called each other nicknames after Great philosophers, physicists and biologists. Please take your troubled low self-esteem spirit back to your village and never speak a word of English and dare you not engage in anything selective that the English man has inevitably introduced into your life. Don't pick and choose, and don't even pretend that you do really really care about local Ghanaian languages, because often times all you people refer to as local LANGUAGE(S) is Twi Only !!! My kids will never speak Twi, they will always express themselves in English, but hell yeah they will understand their native tongue and speak it conveniently as they please, not you forcing them to.

Incidentally, almost all those ignorant parents and kids you referring to do speak too much Twi, that is the reason they seem CONFUSED. You know, it's like EBONICS in America. The dumbing-down of Black Americans by making them think they have a language called Ebonics to be proud of, what happened? Go to American today, there is a mass exodus from the Ghettos into colleges and universities by young black girls especially and a good number of boys. In Ghana we don't have a true culture. We just pretend that our primitive ancestors too had some sense or philosophy or manners, then when we realize how stupid it all looks we make a joke out of it and sell ti to the outside world.

I challenge you to never speak a word of English nor write another article in English for the rest of your life. Call me and let me know how splendid life has turned out.
Asiwome 10 years ago

the writer is trying to make.

the writer is trying to make.
JACK TORONTO 10 years ago

I DOFF MY HAT TO THE WRITER FOR BRINGING THIS TO OUR ATTENTION. IT IS WORRYING HOW WE HAVE ABANDONED ALL OUR GHANAIANESS AND HAVE ADOPTED AND DEVELOPED EXTREME TASTE FOR ANYTHING FOREIGH. WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR WAYS AND ACCEPT ...
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I DOFF MY HAT TO THE WRITER FOR BRINGING THIS TO OUR ATTENTION. IT IS WORRYING HOW WE HAVE ABANDONED ALL OUR GHANAIANESS AND HAVE ADOPTED AND DEVELOPED EXTREME TASTE FOR ANYTHING FOREIGH. WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR WAYS AND ACCEPT WHO WE ARE. YOU CAN BLEACH YOURSELF BUT YOU ARE CERTAINLY NOT A WHITE MAN
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

The writer was not promoting any particular language, so your attack on him is rather unfair. His thesis is that learning one's native language facilitates a better grasp of the English language in later life. And he is right ...
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The writer was not promoting any particular language, so your attack on him is rather unfair. His thesis is that learning one's native language facilitates a better grasp of the English language in later life. And he is right.

Your attack arises out of your own psychological dislike of Twi. That also arises out of the fact of your hatred of the Twi people. The writer was right to state:

"This point is adequately illustrated by Armstrong (1963) that if we despise the language of a people then by that very token we despise that people."

You are free to continue in your hatred but leave your children out of it. Don't say:

" My kids will never speak Twi...."

Leave the kids to expand their horizon by learning as many languages as they like....and their native language too. Your time has been spent in self-loathing; let theirs begin with self-esteem.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY 10 years ago

"His thesis is that learning one's native language facilitates a better grasp of the English language in later life. And he is right."

WHAT QUALIFICATIONS DOES THE WRITER HAVE TO "THEORIZE"? WHO TOLD YOU LEARNING A NATIVE ...
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"His thesis is that learning one's native language facilitates a better grasp of the English language in later life. And he is right."

WHAT QUALIFICATIONS DOES THE WRITER HAVE TO "THEORIZE"? WHO TOLD YOU LEARNING A NATIVE LANGUAGE MAKES IT EASIER TO LEARN ENGLISH- IT RATHER MAKES IT DIFFICULT B/C ONCE YOU CAN THINK IN ONE LANGUAGE, OTHER LANGUAGES BECOME MORE DIFFICULT UNLESS NATURALLY YOU ARE BORN WITH THE ABILITY TO LEARN SEVERAL LANGUAGES....

HAVEN'T YOU HEARD HOW CERTAIN PEOPLE GROUPS IN GHANA SPEAK ENGLISH? I.E "BLEACHING" FOR EXAMPLE IS PRONOUNCED "BREACHING"? YOU WANNA KNOW WHY? CAUSE THOSE PEOPLE THINK, BREATH AND ANALYZE EVERYTHING IN THEIR "SUPERIOR" LANGUANGE FIRST...HAHAHA!
Tsatsu Gbese 10 years ago

We need more articles to uplift our culture. If we do not value what we have, others will come and learn it and later sell it back to our great grand children. I salute you Author for such an excellent expose.

We need more articles to uplift our culture. If we do not value what we have, others will come and learn it and later sell it back to our great grand children. I salute you Author for such an excellent expose.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY 10 years ago

"because of that TWI language which has been imposed on all of the Great Capital City (The Craddle of Sub-African Intellectualism)."

GHANA AS THE "CRADDLE OF SUB-AFRICAN INTELLECTUALIS"- HOW MANY WORLD RENOWN AUTHORS HAVE ...
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"because of that TWI language which has been imposed on all of the Great Capital City (The Craddle of Sub-African Intellectualism)."

GHANA AS THE "CRADDLE OF SUB-AFRICAN INTELLECTUALIS"- HOW MANY WORLD RENOWN AUTHORS HAVE COME OUT OF "THE CRADLE" HA? HOW MANY NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WINNERS?

YOU NEED TO TAKE IT EASY MAN; "YOUR" GHANA IS NOT ALL THAT, BUT WE STILL LOVE IT THOU HA? CAUSE IT IS OUR MOTHER AND FATHERLAND...HAHAHA....LAUGH IT OFF...
Omanbabea 10 years ago

Citizen one, your hatred for twi is confusing you! You seem to understand the author's use of "mother tongue" to mean twi! Nobody imposed twi on anybody. It is just unfortunate that there are more ethnic twi speaking people ...
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Citizen one, your hatred for twi is confusing you! You seem to understand the author's use of "mother tongue" to mean twi! Nobody imposed twi on anybody. It is just unfortunate that there are more ethnic twi speaking people around in Ghana so the language has wider use than others. This is by no means imposition.

I have been to Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and other countries where English is not the mother tongue. No matter how small the country is or how many ethnic groups are there, English is not the medium of communication. They are intelligent enough to have developed their own language for education, business and all. I wish to see an African country being able to develop a language for their own use. Is the inability of black people to develop their own national languages a sign of lack of intelligence?
Paa Kwesi 10 years ago

Wow, maybe twi speaking people should hide to please you

Wow, maybe twi speaking people should hide to please you
AMA BOATEMAA 10 years ago

CITIZEN ONE, YOUR HATRED FOR THE TWI LANGUAGE IS EVIDENTIAL HERE. WHO EVER TOLD YOU TO HAVE HATRED TO THE TWI LANGUAGE HAS DONE YOU MORE HARM THAN GOOD. GROW UP OLU

CITIZEN ONE, YOUR HATRED FOR THE TWI LANGUAGE IS EVIDENTIAL HERE. WHO EVER TOLD YOU TO HAVE HATRED TO THE TWI LANGUAGE HAS DONE YOU MORE HARM THAN GOOD. GROW UP OLU

Chief Alongo 10 years ago

what is this citizen one talking about at all? I it is possible he is one of the confused parents living in a white man's land and wanting to behave and act like a white man. You are just an idiot. Come home

what is this citizen one talking about at all? I it is possible he is one of the confused parents living in a white man's land and wanting to behave and act like a white man. You are just an idiot. Come home
Nogokpo Tiger 10 years ago

If this is how people like citizen one are going to think, then Ghana has a long way to go. To ignore your culture for something foreign can only mean stupidity.

If this is how people like citizen one are going to think, then Ghana has a long way to go. To ignore your culture for something foreign can only mean stupidity.
SHARPE DESIKAN 10 years ago

IT'S TIME FOR WISDOM TO PREVAIL ON THIS FORUM, THE INSULTS AND NEGATIVITY ARE ABSOLUTELY UNNECESSARY AND JUVENILE TO SAY THE LEAST. CITIZEN ONE, YOU HAVE A POINT, JUST CUT BACK ON BEING TOO KNOWN. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS IDEA ...
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IT'S TIME FOR WISDOM TO PREVAIL ON THIS FORUM, THE INSULTS AND NEGATIVITY ARE ABSOLUTELY UNNECESSARY AND JUVENILE TO SAY THE LEAST. CITIZEN ONE, YOU HAVE A POINT, JUST CUT BACK ON BEING TOO KNOWN. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS IDEAL FOR DOUBLE SPEAK AND LOTS OF VERBAL SHENANIGANS.
K. M, Australia 10 years ago

It is a pity that these days no value is placed on own Ghanaian languages. Interesting and very educative books were written in the Ghanaian languages some years back and the Ghanaian language was a component of then educatio ...
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It is a pity that these days no value is placed on own Ghanaian languages. Interesting and very educative books were written in the Ghanaian languages some years back and the Ghanaian language was a component of then education syllabus - from primary level, through secondary to university level - and people take pride in studying them. But these days I wonder if anybody even dreams of such books or go to school to choose any of the Ghanaian languages as a component of subjects of study. Teachers of the Ghanaian languages have no respect in the/our society not even amomg their peers now and I wonder if the Ghana Bureau of Languages has some "life" in it now. This your article, to me, is a wake up call. It should not just end here but must find its way to our educational policy makers and policy implementors. For if we do away with our languages, we are killing our culture, our value and therefore our identity in this global village called Earth.
SHARPE DESIKAN 10 years ago

BRAVO!, VERY ENLIGHTENING ARTICLE,

BRAVO!, VERY ENLIGHTENING ARTICLE,
edem 10 years ago

citizen one,u blast waa.Wanna be white man.

citizen one,u blast waa.Wanna be white man.
Ras Marley 10 years ago

Lets belive in ourselves and value what we have. As for citizen one, he is bomboclat. Naya bingy. Fire burn

Lets belive in ourselves and value what we have. As for citizen one, he is bomboclat. Naya bingy. Fire burn

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