A Lesson for GTT...

For our Blue Cell phone company, I'm going to offer a lesson in adjectives today, especially in their comparative and superlative forms.

Now the first word is. GOOD. Comparative Word would be BETTER (obviously because we are comparing between two entities) and the superlative form would be BEST.
So the progression goes: Good, Better, Best (we know this since primary school though, thanks to Junior English Revised)

Second word is, and this is easier than the previous one. STRONG. The comparative word would be STRONGER and the superlative form of the word would be STRONGEST.
This progression goes: Strong, Stronger, Strongest.

Now keeping that in mind, we come to the point of this confabulation of ours. There are two cell phone companies in this country being GTT and Digicel. Digicel's slogan is "The Bigger Better Network" Whilst GTT proclaim themselves to be "Best Network, Strongest Signal"...WRONG WRONG, WRONG GTT!!! Simple primary school english tells you that you are wrong. If you can't even get your slogan right, (which is probably one of the easiest tasks to get done) how the heck are you intending to get your entire network right? The proper phrasing should be "Better Network, Stronger Signal", GTT Ya hear, you guys are setting a bad example, fix it!

Most grade 5 students know that when you are comparing two things, the comparative form of the word is used (Ok, granted kids might not know the rationale for using them, BUT they know that when there are only TWO, the second form is used) so if school kids can get this right, why the heck can't the folks at GTT get that right? are they that starved for intelligence and simple English skills over there that they cannot get a few words grammatically correct? GTT should be ashamed of themselves.

Some people are not fans of Digicel but one cannot deny that they really do pay meticulous attention to even the small things. GTT, still leaves much to be desired.

"Leaf"...Another simple word explained...

The word this time is "Leaf". Now this word I really want to write about. Ever so often, I hear people talking about "going on leaf" and I think to myself, "what the heck is that? why stop at the leaf, why not take a branch? or the whole tree while you're at it." The proper word to use is "LEAVE" people.

For future reference, let me explain:

Leave (noun): The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty
Leaf (noun): One of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.

It's so simple eh?

The 'TH' Sound

Ok boys and girls, today's lesson will be pronunciation.  Now, who can say the word three?  No it’s not pronounced tree.  C’mon people, it’s a simple thing to do – just put your tongue between your teeth and blow.  There shouldn’t be an excuse as to why most Guyanese people do not pronounce the ‘th’ sound.  Yes, I give you that we speak Guyanese creole, but do we have to make even the simplest of standard English language statements sound so raw and uncultured?  We should all be more conscious of how we speak and the way we do it.  What in the world is a ‘towsand’?  Like the tootsie pop phrase – 'the world may never know'.