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Ghastly grammatical mistakes that we make 'accidentally'

I glimpsed an interesting photo caption on Facebook last week. In part, just below the picture of a young man seemingly paying too much attention to a post he had just written, were the words: “This is how I go through my posts to avoid the unemployed editors on Facebook correcting my grammar”.

Lately, perhaps because acerbic politics that raise adrenaline levels among combative Kenyans, always on the prowl on social media have taken a back seat, many of the bloggers must find other forms of distractions; they cannot sit still for long. One sure thing about social media, but particularly on Facebook, is that civility is not much of a concern.

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