The teacher in me says I should continue to fuss, over and over again, about our people’s disregard for punctuation. Some years in the past, we wrote in this space a headline that read: Do they teach punctuation anymore in our learning institutions?
This question still lingers in this columnist’s mind today. It is quite disturbing to read a text exceeding 100 words and comprising up to three complete sentences, yet it doesn’t bear anything such as a comma, a semi-colon, a question mark or a full stop to guide the reader.
Most of you who are reading this, we aver, are familiar with this incredulity. And among the culprits are people who are diploma holders, graduates and even post-graduates. There are even teachers and career scribblers who display this form of illiteracy too, and one will be forgiven to ask: what could be wrong with our schooled people? There must be something faulty about language teaching in “Bongo” and elsewhere in East Africa.
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