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 THE PANDEMONIUM Standing at the doorway of our house, I knew the temperature was rather cold but my armpits were sweating continuously. My left hand was somewhere resting somewhere in my white jumper pocket. The other one was hanging at the other side squeezing itself.  I was trying to figure out how to avenge. That was the thought that came to my mind when we had just heard the news of my father’s death.  When the news struck my mother’s ears, she let go of the knife she was slicing okra with. She tried to control herself but to no avail. Okra was father’s favorite.  ‘Arna, the infidels, have killed him’ was the statement of the person who brought the sad news. I came out shortly after the man had left.  ‘Wallahi I must avenge,’ I soliloquized,  even though I knew father would not have wished me to avenge his death. I knew, too, that it was impossible to control myself against it. ‘Revenge has never pleased the soul and so I will never,’ my father once sa...
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IN DEFENSE OF DARLUNG'S GRAMMATICAL BOO-BOO: By Tameem Y. Garga.

IN DEFENSE DARLUNG'S GRAMMATICAL BOO-BOO
Today, errors walk faster than rights. People tend to realize your mistakes than your rights. If you are privileged to visits most of the online news hubs, you should be privileged to realize that one of the vibrant ministers of Nigeria has committed grammatical iniquity. Many people could not have realized the boo-boo if it was not realized by correct grammarians, as they call themselves.
I wonder how many errors were captured from the thousands of commentators out there. One of the commenters said: waw I can belief it. what a shame. Even the primary pupil cannot do these. When I read the aforesaid comment, I was forced to conclude that the commenter should be a pre primary or nursery pupil. This is because his grammar is worse than that of Dalong, but he concluded that even a primary students should not be caught with a single-word-mistake.  

WILLIAM BIGELOW writes, in NEW YORK TIMES 16 Aug 2012, ‘…the “vibrant” Obama commits grammatical blunders…’
The list provided bellow on grammatical errors committed by the almighty Obama could make you ask for Darlong’s forgiveness.  
Read the following errors by Obama, whom the Americans believe is better than his predecessor, W.Bush.   
1. “Well, first of all, I do continue to believe that the greatest threat to United States security are the terrorist networks like al Qaeda …”
-greatest threat…are? (My comment)

2. “Obviously, our efforts to continue to go after extremist organizations that would do harm to the homeland is uppermost on our minds.”
-organizations…is? (My comment)

3. “Good morning, Marines … Diplomacy and assistance is also required to help the millions of displaced Iraqis.”
-diplomacy and assistance is? (My comment)

4. “Our families, our businesses, and our long-term fiscal health demands that we act and act now.”
-Our families, our businesses…demands? (My comment)

 5. “Each of these institutions are full of honorable men and women doing important work that helps our
country prosper.”
-each of these institutions are?  (My comment)

Just to mention but few.

My brother, if you are able to realize the mistakes here, you should know that even the whites or the Americans do make mistakes.

Now come to the Darlong’s . The error that Darlong was accused of is the use of spended instead of spent.  Let us look at the error first. Has the sport minister really said SPENDED OR EXPENDED? I think is possible that he was saying expended. You know why? Everybody does such a mispronunciations.  A group of American literati said, ”what does Trump mean when he says bigly?”  it was later realized that whenever he wants to say ‘BIG LEAGUE,’ he says bigly.  If a white American president (-elect) can say bigly instead of big league, why not a Nigerian minister says spended instead of expended.
You may ask me why the money expended were properly expended? Right? The word expended simply means to spend some money. I think this is logical.
I claim no infallibility in my works, so corrections and or suggestions are always welcomed

TAMEEM GARGA.
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  1. Tameem Garga21 December 2016 at 16:32

    IN DEFENSE OF DALUNG'S GRAMMATICAL BOO-BOO

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  2. Unknown1 January 2017 at 08:26

    Interesting, but the fact that mistakes abound with regards to a first or second language does not mean that we should revel in them. You may want to consider some errors of your own.
    Cheers!

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  3. Tameem Garga8 January 2017 at 02:19

    YEAH. THANKS

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  4. Unknown4 September 2017 at 10:48

    Interesting!!! I like that but u know we are good in criticism. And with due respect, sir, note the following.
    1) to visit Not 'to visits'
    2) as they called themselves Not ' as they call themselves'
    3 ) a primary student Not 'a primary students'
    4) worst than Not 'worse than'etc

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  5. Tameem Garga29 October 2018 at 02:40

    Thanks, Umar.

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