At this rate, we may end up asking pharmacists to change the way they write illegible prescriptions and names of medicines.

Talking of the “NMG Manual of Style and Usage”, did the late Philip Ochieng ever make reference to it? He did not have kind words for complainants of his works—the vocabulary and subject matters.

Away from that, why did the Nation find it necessary to have BD as a stand-alone stable as opposed to an insert in the Daily Nation?

I disagree Business Daily is incomprehensible and should be simplified. BD has an audience in mind. A magazine for doctors would have medical language. Same as one for diplomats. BD is no different.

If BD lost its business character, it would add no value to its readers from the business community.

By being business-oriented in language, it’s able to increase knowledge instead of being plain and devoid of insightful content.

The main shortcoming of Business Daily is lack of comprehensive international business and technology news.

Ignore the misplaced complaints about jargon by the uninitiated; we need you to cover companies listed on the NASDAQ and world equity markets more comprehensively.

— Alexander Njiru Njeru, Embu

Of late, the Nation stories are too long. How does the editor expect a two-page news item to be read? Such length should be reserved for feature articles.

The current items are verbose, full of repetitions and too long for anyone’s attention. Remember, like a woman’s skirt, a story should be “long enough to cover the subject but, most importantly, short and interesting”.

— Brian Maitai, Nairobi

Public Editor: I stand corrected. A decimal point and a zero were inadvertently left out after the digit ‘3’ in the figure ‘39’. UK has a GDP just over three times that of the Netherlands, according IMF data as of October 16, 2028.