[EDLING:47] Uganda: English Language - Wazzup With the New Trend?

[Francis M. Hult]

allAfrica.com

Uganda: English Language - Wazzup With the New Trend?

WOULD you slap your son hard in the face? Checking through his test papers, you 
notice phrases like "mob stuff" for "plenty" or "shud" for "should." He would 
have scored better, had he avoided the jargon!

Inappropriate language, consisting of text abbreviations and slang, is slowly 
creeping into students' course work and exams, teachers reveal. "Words such 
as 'b4', 'gd' or 'thru' are so common when I am marking," says David Eryatu, a 
General Paper teacher at Wanyange Girls' School.

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