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Foul language in public discourse a stain on our national moral fabric

Governor Sonko addressing the press after launching the electronic identification cards for staff at City Hall , Nairobi on May 22, 2019. [Samson Wire/Standard].

It was George Orwell who, in 1964, asserted that “the general atmosphere is bad and language must suffer.” As then; so now, but worse. Everyone is silently saying that matters are worsening in the language of public discourse.

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