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The piece I did last week asking all to embrace the new ‘nakulombotove’ language had me almost lynched at the altar of public opinion. This week, we are running some of the feedback that we received from our readers from various platforms.
Peter Njau, an avid reader of this column emailed that ‘sheng is good, lyrical and poetic but doesn’t sound nice when used in the wrong context.’ ‘The new shade, shembeteng’, he added, ‘sounds silly and might be transient.’
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