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<p>By Habib Sani Galadima</p><div class="Pl7IDx4x" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>&#8220;Do not judge others by your own standards, for everyone is making their way home, in the way they know best.&#8221; —Leon Brown</p>
<p>I was chatting on WhatsApp with a PhD holder in Computer Science who had assigned me a research task. The content of our discussion was technical, but what caught me off guard wasn’t the project—it was the way he wrote. No capital letters. No full stops. Grammar completely ignored.</p>
<p>I was embarrassed for him. Quietly, I judged him.</p><div class="PWEPdtqt" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>“If he can’t write a proper sentence,” I thought, “how can he handle advanced computing?”</p>
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<p>As a writer, I treat words like precision tools. I’ve edited WhatsApp messages just because I typed “plartfom” instead of “platform.” I’ve deleted and rewritten sentences over misplaced commas. For many of us, writing is more than communication, it’s a form of identity.</p>
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<p>Later, while taking a class on Boolean search techniques to sharpen my research skills, I realized I was slowing the session down. I kept trying to construct full sentences, pausing over things like whether to use “is” or “was.” Eventually, the tutor interrupted me. “Abib,” he said, [Yoruba speakers sometimes soften or drop the ‘h’ sound, much like Hausa speakers do with ‘p’] “Stop worrying about grammar. Computers don’t care. They just need commands.”</p>
<p>That sentence landed hard.</p>
<p>He wasn’t dismissing the value of good writing. He was pointing out the difference between language for people and language for machines. After class, I brought it up again. That conversation nudged me to start researching how tech professionals write. I found that their messages are often things like “deploy fail, check config” or “pls restart, cache issue.” They’re stripped of polish but work perfectly in their world.</p>
<p>I realized I had judged that PhD holder unfairly. In his world, efficiency matters more than form. Grammar isn’t a signal of intelligence, it’s often irrelevant to the task.</p>
<p>This realization urged me to confront my own bias. I had mistaken one type of fluency for the only kind that mattered. It was a humbling moment. Every field, every profession, has its own language. A scientist may not care about spelling; a developer may skip punctuation. That doesn’t make them less intelligent. It just means they’re fluent in a different code.</p>
<p>Embracing humility in our judgments allows us to see that intelligence shows up in many forms. If we slow down long enough to listen or to read between the typos, we might just learn something new.</p>
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<p>Mr. Habib Sani Galadima writes from Kano. He can be reached via email address: habibmsani46@gmail.com</p>
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