Mathata a bakwang ke ho se ngole puo ya Sesotho ka nepo marangrang a Setjhaba

Abstract

Communication is the ability to convey a message. It helps people to form relationships and solve problems. If there is a distraction at the time the writer passes the message to the reader, this causes confusion, and the message loses its meaning. Although there are books that teach how to write a language correctly, it seems that writing the correct language for Sesotho remains a challenge. The purpose of this article is to show that not writing words correctly causes problems in language as this causes a distortion of meaning. For the collection of data, conversations from various social media platforms, such as email, Facebook, WhatsApp and text messages, have been used. In this article, the Shannon and Weaver model for communication has been used to analyse the data. The findings show that not writing correctly in Sesotho has now become a norm, and this causes problems in the language. This study encourages government departments, companies and people to identify language experts to help them identify errors in language before publishing what they have written.