In tribute to the fallen Garissa University College Comrades, Special tribute to the linguistics and language students who were quite a number
In the standard theory of the Generative Transformational Grammar, Noam Chomsky introduced the lexicon which comprises of complex items and redundancy rules. The lexicon is described as a set of lexical entries each consisting of a distinctive feature matrix and complex symbols, where complex symbols is a set of different kind of features which may be syntactic and semantic, or may specify which transformational processes apply to strings containing the items in question or features that exempt from certain phonological rules and so on. The standard theory however is not the subject of this post: the lexical item student is. Below would be a possible derivation for student
Student
+Young
+Intellectual
+Energetic
With
this derivation, the death of ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTY SEVEN, not by disease or
any natural phenomenon but by death irks me and rubs my nerves the wrong way!
147 souls, youthful, energetic, promising intellects is far too much a price to
pay for terrorism! At this point we need to stop these terrorists there and for
good! The troubled north has had enough misfortunes with the education sector
hit hardest and as a result, economic growth is like a pipedream in that
region. Late last year when terror was unleashed on Mandera from right, left and
center most of the fatalities were on teachers, the education sector was left
on its knees for the better part of the first term. A decade ago, in the same
region Garba-Tulla high school was forced to close its doors for two years,
even after reopening the school has never been able to reclaim its lost glory,
I hope Garissa University College does!
It
is tough though, for me to take of my mind that we are talking about young
souls, around my age. People who should be studying or doing other productive
activities for themselves and the society! The crème de la crème, a piece from
the best People at the most productive
time of their life and going beyond Kenya it is something that we, as human
being should come together and curb because it is happening all over! Exactly a
year ago 140 chibok girls were kidnapped Boko Haram, I may have been relieved
when I saw them being forced to recite the Quran but we need them educated!
Five months ago Taliban opened terror on Pakistani students in Peshawar School,
Pakistan! At around the same time Africa lost another 50 students by a suicide
bomber in Potiskum, North eastern Nigeria. In what is termed as Europe’s worst
attack since World War II a lone terrorist unleashed terror on Norway bombing
government offices before attacking a youth camp leaving 69 young ones dead.
I’d run out of fingers counting where the youthful generation has been targeted
but evidently, in any terror attack the young and most productive generation is
usually the most affected! In any case, human life is sacred, and this profligate
extermination of human life all over the world need to be stopped at all costs.
We also should accept that terrorism is terrorism, it doesn’t matter who the
perpetrator and above what we need a stronger resolve, hard-line decisions and
change of tactics to combat terrorism!
I
stop at his quote from one of the world’s greatest linguist and intellectual! It
applies to everyone in my view, from governments to the civilian populations
and the actual perpetrators of acts of terror
The title of the post is a phonetic transcription of "No More" the current trending topic on social media following the Garissa University Attack
