The bloody wednesday and matters arising

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TOGBE 10 years ago

NDC PREFERRED TO BUILD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS IN TAMALE AND KUMASI EVEN THO ACCRA FLOODS WERE VERY IMMINENTLY APPROACHING AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD VERY TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES ON GHANAIANS....

NDC PREFERRED TO BUILD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS IN TAMALE AND KUMASI EVEN THO ACCRA FLOODS WERE VERY IMMINENTLY APPROACHING AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD VERY TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES ON GHANAIANS....
TOGBE 10 years ago

LOANS MEANT FOR ACCRA DRAINS WERE DIVERTED BY NDC

LOANS MEANT FOR ACCRA DRAINS WERE DIVERTED BY NDC
Anwona Kanjaga 10 years ago

I am sorry but the way we choose our words for descriptions are not appropriate. Bloody means when massacres take place and peoples' blood are spilled by others. This was a natural disaster so the best fitting coinage should ...
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I am sorry but the way we choose our words for descriptions are not appropriate. Bloody means when massacres take place and peoples' blood are spilled by others. This was a natural disaster so the best fitting coinage should be dark Wednesday and not bloody Wednesday.
comrade ozman 10 years ago

come out with your suggestion pertinent to the issue on board and stop this unnecessary correction of people assertions.after all,english language is non of our mothers tongue.

come out with your suggestion pertinent to the issue on board and stop this unnecessary correction of people assertions.after all,english language is non of our mothers tongue.
Odikr@. 10 years ago

"We must stop dumping refuse in gutters"....
The pictures on Social Media sites are of dumped waste floating in drainage culverts.
We are being depicted as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
They are not wrong.

"We must stop dumping refuse in gutters"....
The pictures on Social Media sites are of dumped waste floating in drainage culverts.
We are being depicted as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
They are not wrong.
Abubakar Mohammed Marzuq Azindoo 10 years ago

Thanks for your useful comment, darling brother Anwona Kanjaga. But the comment would have been more useful if it had been intended to add to not to to subtract from the meanings of the adjective "bloody." Your claim is just ...
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Thanks for your useful comment, darling brother Anwona Kanjaga. But the comment would have been more useful if it had been intended to add to not to to subtract from the meanings of the adjective "bloody." Your claim is just one of the numerous contexts in which the word is applied, but it does not make mine wrong. Below is the justification of my contention:

1 - "Bloody" among other things means "covered, smeared, or running with blood." Another meaning is: "composed of or resembling blood." (Oxford Dictionary of English, 2010, p. 182). So, if the tragedy under review is "composed of blood", the use of "bloody" is contextually right.

2 - On usage, the dictionary states that it is informally "used to express anger, annoyance, or shock, or simply for emphasis." Therefore, if I use the word to express any of the above stated emotions in the article, it is semantically correct. Darling brother, be informed that I indeed used "bloody" to emphasize the tragedy on that Wednesday.

3 - "Bloody" can be used figuratively to achieve certain special effects. In my write-up, the appropriate figure of speech for which the word has been applied is HYPERBOLE. You may read about it.

Darling brother, perhaps what is more worthy of correction is your grammatical Error of Concord in your comment. this Error of Concord is contained in your statement: "...and people's blood are spilled by others. In this construction, the subject is "blood" which is singular. So it must agree with a singular verb - "is." Indeed, if you are genuinely interested in corrections, you should start from there. Just replaced "are" with "is" to respect the principle of Concord.

You may consult page 181 of the same dictionary to understand that "blood" is both a mass noun and a count noun. When it is a mass noun, it agrees with a singular verb in sentence construction, and when it is a count noun, it agrees with the appropriate verb depending on the NUMBER of the subject. For instance, "blood" - singular - takes "is", but "bloods" - plural - takes "are".

Darling brother Kanjaga, you may learn from the following words of wisdom: “Humans are prone not only to commit language errors themselves but also to err in their judgments of those errors committed by others” (James, 1998: 204).
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

Superb answer as usual.

Sometimes I daresay that I am more interested in the wisdom in Bro. Azindoo's answer than the trite questions asked by people who have no clue what they are talking about. And here in his measured a ...
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Superb answer as usual.

Sometimes I daresay that I am more interested in the wisdom in Bro. Azindoo's answer than the trite questions asked by people who have no clue what they are talking about. And here in his measured answer, Prof. Azindoo still proves a variant to the adage that "A word to the wise is in the north".
Abubaar M. M. Azindoo 10 years ago

As usual, I am thankful to you and humbled by your compliments, Dr. SAS. In fact, you have always been a source of inspiration to me and many others interested in life-long learning. Your contributions - short or long, for or ...
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As usual, I am thankful to you and humbled by your compliments, Dr. SAS. In fact, you have always been a source of inspiration to me and many others interested in life-long learning. Your contributions - short or long, for or against - have often been value-addition to intellectual discours. May you continue to be a figure in the Community of Knowledge. Stay blessed, Doc.
Eshun 10 years ago

Good education!

Good education!
Abubakar Mohammed Marzuq Azindoo 10 years ago

Thankful and humbled.

Thankful and humbled.

Captein 10 years ago

What sort of campus or school is this? Lies in the credibility of Source

What sort of campus or school is this? Lies in the credibility of Source
Abubakar Mohammed Marzuq Azindoo 10 years ago

Dear Captein, thanks for your comment which would help us sieve fact from fiction, intelligence from buffoonery, and reality from quackery. Please, visit the website of National Accreditation Board, and you would see Universi ...
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Dear Captein, thanks for your comment which would help us sieve fact from fiction, intelligence from buffoonery, and reality from quackery. Please, visit the website of National Accreditation Board, and you would see University of Applied Management (UAM)as an accredited Foreign owned tertiary institution in Ghana. You may also visit the University's own website: www.ghana.my-university.com.

I am sorry to state that UAM is unlike you and many ghosts who only exist on ghanaweb.com as viruses attacking wisdom and distracting learners.

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