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When you complain about the language in literary works, you are not just complaining about things like concord and spelling. The problem lies in the fact that you are using the language to create.

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A very good work of art, for example, would differentiate characters by the way in which they speak.

To use a language as an official language, it has to be standardised.

It is not good to write a novel in which everybody speaks in the same way. It is also inappropriate when you write for children as if you are writing for adults.

I don't think the schools have been doing a good job teaching English. Many users of the language are very deficient, whether you look at the pronunciation, the vocabulary or its pragmatics.

No organisation can exist in a failed society, hence the need for instituting the Nigeria Prize for Science and Literature.

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