I can't believe Kenyans think Swahili is cumbersome and impractical!!
I'm not the most fluent Swahili speaker but I blame it on excessive emphasis on English in our education system. I remember we used to be punished with the dreaded "disc" if we were caught speaking Swahili by our primary school teachers. Way to promote the national language!
I still think Swahili is a good language, it's just that most of us are poor at it. So I commend Google for trying to promote it to us (or force it upon us, whichever way you look at it)

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Shiro Njagi

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

~~Maya Angelou~~