Comments on: Marian Ansah writes: Apology for speech gaffe not enough; sanction writers https://citifmonline.com/2017/01/marian-ansah-writes-apology-for-speech-gaffe-not-enough-sanction-writers/ Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz Sat, 23 Dec 2017 14:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.8 By: Obuobi Gregory https://citifmonline.com/2017/01/marian-ansah-writes-apology-for-speech-gaffe-not-enough-sanction-writers/#comment-5649 Sat, 23 Dec 2017 14:04:00 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=282978#comment-5649 In reply to Atta Yaw Yorke.

Does Atta Yaw Yorke has any claim to any education at all? What standard of English does Mr Atta Yaw Yorke’s educated Ghana have? What is Atta Yaw Yorke’s own level of English? Note I have advisedly omitted standard.What draws this element into this row he has provoked? Does he, per chance, have for a relation Journalist Efe Marian Ansah? In what field of study can this demonstrate any competence?

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By: Obuobi Gregory https://citifmonline.com/2017/01/marian-ansah-writes-apology-for-speech-gaffe-not-enough-sanction-writers/#comment-181 Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:50:00 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=282978#comment-181 In reply to Atta Yaw Yorke.

How much English grammar has this gentleman studied? What solid grammarians of the English language can he quote off head. He mentions punctuation marks he finds ‘wack’. Whoever it is who edits postings on Citi 97.3 FM should do well to find out how much grammar Atta Yaw Yorke has ever studied his whole life. Has he ever studied English language to any appreciable level?
Obuobi Gregory did kindergarten English under the supervision of a Vice-Chancellor of London University, and managed to get the Vice-Chancellor mark his assignment once.

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By: Obuobi Gregory https://citifmonline.com/2017/01/marian-ansah-writes-apology-for-speech-gaffe-not-enough-sanction-writers/#comment-180 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 07:02:00 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=282978#comment-180 In reply to Atta Yaw Yorke.

‘Your punctuations are wack!!!’
What is the level of your command of the English language, Mr. Atta Yaw Yorke? What type of English are blessed by your education to speak and write, Mr. Atta Yaw Yorke? And can you tell the world the level of education, and in what, that your person owns?
Mr. Yaw Atta Yorke, what is the ‘educated Ghanaian English’? Can you define this for the world, your perception of the ‘educated Ghanaian English’?
Tell us, Atta, what do you do for a living? What is your profession?

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By: Obuobi Gregory https://citifmonline.com/2017/01/marian-ansah-writes-apology-for-speech-gaffe-not-enough-sanction-writers/#comment-179 Sat, 28 Jan 2017 06:15:00 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=282978#comment-179 In reply to Atta Yaw Yorke.

We do not put up with cases of psychosis, and irresponsible illiteracy in our field, Mr. Atta Yaw Yorke. Let me throw you a challenge a second time: find out about the ‘element’ whose post you seem challenged to challenge.

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By: Obuobi Gregory https://citifmonline.com/2017/01/marian-ansah-writes-apology-for-speech-gaffe-not-enough-sanction-writers/#comment-178 Tue, 10 Jan 2017 02:10:00 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=282978#comment-178 In reply to Atta Yaw Yorke.

I think it only instructive that ATTA YAW YORKE take the trouble to find out the substance of what he has written in response to Obuobi Gregory’s critique; and to try to establish who this GREGORY OBUOBI is.
Gregory Obuobi is a published, world acclaimed author. His work, SCARS OF A CALABASH MISDEED, a RoseDog publication, is a textbook of English language. It is fiction. It is of the genre Contemporary Fiction in literature. It is a textbook in some colleges in America now! SCARS OF A CALABASH MISDEED belongs to a trilogy:THE PATH TO FREEDOM. The other two titles that make this trilogy are THE FREAK and THE SPLIT. Scars of a Calabash Misdeed by Gregory Obuobi has a sequel. It is called THE SPLIT ABSOLUTE. These are all brought to book print. Please go to http://www.sibpub.com, THE SIBSTER PUBLISHERS LTD website.
Gregory is a world distinguished academic journalist. Gregory Ofei Obuobi, the published author, edits and publishes and owns THE SIBSTER FILE JOURNAL – a news and culture magazine readers in Ghana are yet to be blessed with.
Find out how many people in Ghana, even in the Ghana academic circle, know Gregory Yaw Ofei Obuobi.

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By: Obuobi Gregory https://citifmonline.com/2017/01/marian-ansah-writes-apology-for-speech-gaffe-not-enough-sanction-writers/#comment-177 Mon, 09 Jan 2017 13:23:00 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=282978#comment-177 What is Mariam Ansah attempting to query, you think? It is simply the fact that the authors supposed to have worded what quotes the President carries in his maiden speech to the nation and to the world at large glosses over the mention of the names of the supposed said authors. Period, It is neither here nor there for other heads of state having before the President Nana Akufo-Addo Dankwa Akufo alluded to the said quotes. This is absolutely immaterial in context here. Mariam sounds absolutely ridiculous to me for bringing in the bit she thinks bastardizes the speech. It is the relevance the quotes carries to our context that induced The President referring to them at all in his inaugural speech. Nothing more; nothing less!
What ‘sanctions’ would Mariam Ansah, in her educated wisdom, bring to punish the speech? Mention your penalty for the perceived crime committed for the world to hear. Mariam Ansah….PLAGIARISM!
The little said about other mad-caps in our argument on this issue the better. These need to learn to think constructively…objectively.

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By: Atta Yaw Yorke https://citifmonline.com/2017/01/marian-ansah-writes-apology-for-speech-gaffe-not-enough-sanction-writers/#comment-176 Mon, 09 Jan 2017 10:30:00 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=282978#comment-176 In reply to Obuobi Gregory.

Please your English is wack!!! This is not educated Ghanaian English. Your punctuations are wack!!!. In fact you have said nothing.
Your contribution or comment is highly incompetent

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By: Obuobi Gregory https://citifmonline.com/2017/01/marian-ansah-writes-apology-for-speech-gaffe-not-enough-sanction-writers/#comment-175 Mon, 09 Jan 2017 08:00:00 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=282978#comment-175 Mariam Ansah: It has come as a fact of history that the inaugural speech of the 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic which His Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo Dankwa Akufo delivered 7th January, 2017 carries a huge flaw. The speech refuses to recognize the sources of two quotes that embellish and prop the main message the president seeks to drive home: citizenry by responsibility, and not by subservience.

Mariam, I do not know where you are coming from, you think. But learn from Obuobi Gregory that learning is an everyday, workaday, non-stop process. We learn exploring from scientifically established sources, which sources must needs be acknowledged; we learn direct from the environment incidents of episodes we are made part of; we learn from inspirations from our own life style and life activitivies give birth to. A mighty lot of revelations and enlightenment come to most people of different generations in space and time that are repetitive schooled by nature. In our bid to impress, perhaps, pushed by such outlandish and devilish developments as we have, unfortunately, been forced to accommodate, which untoward unacceptable occurrences are yet unfolding even before our noses, such errors you define plagiarism drop; and these need to be pointed out and acknowledged. It is only a mark of graceful humility and high intelligence to accept the fact of fallibility, which has received cognizance. The Ghana media houses have pointed to their scholarly wisdom, and we are grateful for it. We are all learning; we do learn every moment of our lives. The negligent drop of those two sources of quotes, we acknowledge, is unfortunate.
But where are you, Marian Ansah, coming from, you think, with your prescription of penalties for our acknowledged sins of, as you would have us believe, plagiarism?

We need to talk, don’t we? i was going to refer you to our Professor of Cosmology for our Philosophy course,Dr. Van Hagans; but let me spare you that.

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