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Luanda Reggae Defenders - what is your long term agenda?

Luanda Reggae Defenders is a now a popular movement with roots in Vihiga and border Siaya and Kakamega counties Attention is brought to the manner and conduct the movement has gained fame and followers, mainly the Youths. The movement capitalizes on funerals. With a poor culture of putting the dead to rest, the Reggae Defenders have taken it by storm and rebranded the infamous ‘Disco Matanga’ – disco at funeral. Reggae Defenders on move. Pic: Charles Rankings: Facebook They mobilize quickly on the day the dead will be discharged from the mortuary. They have this huge old school sound system that is over buzzing to no clear reggae song - that they hire a pickup to carry - and it has a young DJ mainly standing there than mixing anything. Often, against the rules, the casket is grabbed from a hearse vehicle and tied to a motorbike. There it will be swayed and jerk breaked between other motorbikes on the narrow roads. That, is, how a fellow soldier, often a young dead, is mourned. ...
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Appropriate grammar defeats slang

Not ekedelu*?

The other reason why we should not tolerate 'l' and it's shortened form is because appropriate grammar defeats slang.

E.g

vuraru cannot be  vul'lu (the slang of vururu) simply because we shorten successive r syllables and maintain the last vowel.

Virira can be slanged as vil'la but conflict with the slang of virara (which is vil'la).

If you write r, you won't ever question your grammar. It agrees by itself and passes the taste.

- when is Ngugi wa Thiong'o launching the _kusangaal'le lologooli_ books?

I will write a short article to prove that the title needs a relook.

Kusangaal'le is from the word sangara. Our dialect would see you speak sound " _sangaara_ "

Sangara if coughed, goes thus
Do - sangara
Repetition - sangarira
Be done for - sangarwa
Be made to - sangarizwa
Assume the  - sangarika
Instead of/monotony - sangaririra
Verb to noun - vusangaru
Etc as how best we should nyambua.

I have shared prior on the hardship there is if we increase the count of vowels in words. It is dialect that we are transporting to books. It should not be so.

Consider
Ndarora mama nasangaririraa emeseji ya baba yari namutumiyi mu isimu. (We did not lengthen maama, emeeseji, baaba, yaari, naamutumiyi, isiimu)

Or

Kusangara nu kuva nu vuyanzi. (We did not lengthen vuyaanzi. Had you noticed?)

Unfortunate to us we take the word from the lips to the book. If Americans were to write English we would have Thar instead of that, meen instead of men. Kind of.

In brief, Kusangaririri should have taken a best position. It is an act of praise, love etc. Making the verb liven. Which kunyambua would it be? Then children can be taught it can be slanged as 'kusangaril'li'. 😊.

As for Lulogooli, I think we closed the debate. Maragori is the language. I speak maragori language. Not I speak lulogooli.

Lulogooli is saying luluhya or luswahili or lwidakho. 😊. It chance some sense of thingneess. Lukisii. I blame none of the forefathers. They did their part.

-Can we do our part?

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