>>> >>> Of late we've ranted about being forced to use Google in Swahili. >>> But >>> it's good to realize that Swa is so recognized that it's on >>> Wikipedia as >>> well! >>> http://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges >>> I prefer to read the article in English though considering the >>> amount of >>> time in my hands... >>> --
This unfortunately very true. I find that I can read far faster in English than in Swahili. This make it very hard to be loyal to it when you are in a rush. Unfortunately, as we use it infrequently, we rust further which just keep reinforcing the original problem. I kind of now understand how languages goes belly up. I used to be a wikipedia editor sometime back and I did not know how bad my swahili was until I tried to write a swahili version of an article I had authored in English. It was barely Swahili and I just had to trash it as it was embarrassing. Kind of felt sad about myself after that for a moment. William
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