Shule ya sheng iko wapi

Dhuks

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I thought i was conversant with the language till i came through this post in facebook
 
Sheng hubadilika kwa kila generation, maneno mapya hubuniwa kadiri muda unavyosonga. Tukiwa wadogo tuliwachanganya wazazi wetu, sasa ni zamu yetu kuchanganywa na kizazi kipya. Yaani nikikaa karibu na vijana wa kisasa huwa nabaki kudata maana sinyiti chochote.

Sasa hapo kemba, kulishwa pamba, mboka yaani noma.
 
Kudedishwa inakubamba msee
No that.mleta mada ananikumbusha how non Kenyans always react on hearing Kenyans conversing in sheng.it reminded me on how some Ugandans were fascinated with the language when I visited kampala.Though its sophisticated, they liked it.they even came closer to our table so that we could teach them.Sheng is a Kenyan identify just like pigdjmi is to nigeria
 
Kuna Sheng ya (insert jina ya mtaa) lakini si wote tunaelewana ~Jua Kali.
 
niki kemba
ku jog
mboka
mic
ukirombosa
just to name a few. I thought i had a 30% understanding of sheng but this variety man i can hardly get 10%. I got the gist of the story but the words were so alien
 

Mngeweza kutumia sheng kutengeneza commercial movies (like Bongo Movies in Tanzania) naamini movies za Kenya zingependwa sana in the region...
 
Mngeweza kutumia sheng kutengeneza commercial movies (like Bongo Movies in Tanzania) naamini movies za Kenya zingependwa sana in the region...
A good idear in deed however the problem with sheng is how it changes rapidly and how people incorporate the new vocabularies depending on how cool it is.for example,matatu,nganya,manyanga,,mat and mathree,mean one thing.Nairobi' is the sheng city, the sheng there is too complex as compared to other towns.there are other vocabularies which even some Kenyans from other towns do not understand.another problem is that our schools also shan it claiming that its doesn't help students speak good swahili hence lacking a cariculum.But with all these setbacks,sheng bado imesimama
 
I understood most of what he said.
 
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