There are quite many African professors who neither speak nor write good English and this is not to say they are not competent in their fields of specialisation.
Anthony Akinola.
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 12:20 PM Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:
"Farooq,
Is it not possible that he totally misunderstood the question and went on to give what we used to call "OP" (off point answer) in my high school days in the 70s in Nigeria? Notably, while it is less likely, this (OP) can happen to someone who knows the answer to the given question and not only one who doesn't. Stress, anxiety, distraction, pressure and other things can be a factor. As is with malapropism for instance, where one would wrongly use a word that sounds close to but yet different from what one wants to say, (even one knows both words and their different meanings) one can also hear a word such as technicalities and mistakenly take it to mean technical as in specialized focus areas of expertise, which I think is what may have happened here. So if this is a one time thing, it would not worry me. If however, their is a pattern or other evidence of incompetence, then we have a problem.
Regards,
Okey"
Even at that, his response was not plausible.
CAO.
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