Re: SV: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Farooq, Funmi and Yona

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:

But  some days ago this is what you stated:

"No matter how good a Nigerian speaks and writes English it can never be as perfect as a born English native of England. .......................

A native of England with primary school education can write and speak better English than the best Nigerian Professor of English language because as native of England he/she is born with the language."

Do not allow naive and contradictory statements undermine your intellectual integrity.  

Show me exactly where I wrote that. If you can't, then admit to your dishonesty. That's not even my prose. I don't write like that. Plus, that's a crassly ignorant statement I would never make even in my sleep. "..a born English native of England." And you think I would write that? What the heck does that mean?

A little honesty won't hurt anybody. Attributing things to me that I never said just to "win" an argument is beneath contempt. 

Farooq

Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Journalism & Emerging Media
School of Communication & Media

Social Science Building 

Room 5092 MD 2207

402 Bartow Avenue
Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw, Georgia, USA 30144
Cell: (+1) 404-573-9697
Personal website: www.farooqkperogi.com

Twitter: @farooqkperog

Author of Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World

"The nice thing about pessimism is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." G. F. Will

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