#REPOST How a Luo Would Have said It. My parents disallowed me from Fine Art school at Campus and greenlight me to school of Financial Engineering(shhh not BCOM alaa!). They said I overqualified for a degree in Fine Arts haha. They used to say koro gima kata wuod otiende jaklass ariyo goro nego jii gikmoko ekor kiosk Kandiege kae emidwadhine embalariany??(meaning: what a class two drop out can do at the market you want to do at the university??). Like all parents, they wanted me to do Injiniaring or Medising. They would say idwani wadhi wakon dau ni itimo kos mar goro embalariany??? (Meaning: you want us to tell your grandmother that you study drawing at the UNIVERSITY?). By the way, the ONLY professions my grandmother, and by extension my fellow villagers know are taught at ANY university, are (said in professional form): japuonj(teacher), injinia, laktar(doctor), drep ndege(pilot) and jabank(banker). They know nothing about Actuarial science, sijui Fine Arts, sijui BCOM, sijui Civil or Wood engineering(injinia ni injinia), sijui hoteliering and etc (jated alot en jated alot koda osome havard koda osome mawego{a cook is a cook whether he studied at Havard or at Mawego Technical}). So if for instance you are called to address a gathering at a funeral as someone who has gone to the university and therefore assumed to have touched books more than the general populace; to avoid embarrassing yourself to the expectant crowd, you cant say that nasomo tedo embalariany(I studied hoteliering), you say nasomo gimiluongo ni dayasporic and internasonol injiniaring of nutrisias dietitics and cuisine in assosieson with hilton otel NAROBI and gikmakamago(meaning: i studied what ive said up there), people will clap for you until my clothes become my choice and my nudity becomes their choice. You also dont say ati am an artist, that is head swell! You say am a pencil engineer or a mild architect. Finally, you cannot say anto an sosiolait narobi kacha(am a socialite in nairobi), you say am an engineer of body morphology, debiting fiscals from publicized pre-coitus aesthetics, I swear youll be called injinia across my village!! Jaduong
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:30:28 +0000
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