ChinenyeN:
So, "Igbo" people can now get offended when "Igbo" people speak "Igbo" language nowadays? Or is it because it is "weird" Ngwa and not "sweet sweet" Anambra that people will now become offended? Are we no longer "Igbo" people anymore speaking "Igbo" language? Abeg. Just continue enjoying the thread. Someone writing in Ngwa should never be reason enough for you or anyone else to turn sour unless you have some sort of internal issue with Ngwa.

ChinenyeN:
Interesting. It is very offensive that two Igbo people will be casually enjoying Igbo language between themselves (and at no one's expense no less), yet you and yours will turn around to say that all Igbo should be welcomed on this platform. Hmm.

ChinenyeN:
*smiles*

On a more serious note, I hear you, iSlayer. I get your point, but I simply won't concede to it, because I believe it is utterly childish that Igbo people, after opening their mouths to spew that "Igbo bu Igbo" jargon, will use those same mouths and say that they are offended (offended.. just imagine) when dialects are spoken, no matter the time and place.

ChinenyeN:
Odumchi and I were having a casual conversation between ourselves, and in your mind that qualifies as an attempt to foist Ngwa upon you on this thread? Is this seriously your mentality?

Sigh... I would say that you entirely misread the entire thing, but that may just fall on deaf ears.

If your love for Igbo is that intense that you would so choose to be offended by the casual banter between Odumchi and I, then so be it. As it so happens though, you are right in that I am not at all impressed by Igbo bu Igbo, and as such I don't share your propensity to take offense. Perhaps your problem isn't with Ngwa, or even Odumchi and I having a casual conversation (because I find it difficult to conceive of you taking this same stance with two people casually speaking in one Anambra dialect or two people casually going at it in Abiriba, etc.). Perhaps it is me, personally, that you might likely have in issue with.

Whether you consciously realize it or not, you and I are essentially at odds in ideology. You believe so much in your Igbo bu Igbo (very very strongly, as you claimed), and you realize that I don't share that zeal in any way. Perhaps you're too concerned with my not playing well with other Igbo that you simply interpret my action to be an affront to you and your Igbo beliefs, and as such take offense even when you needn't. Now, before you or anyone else asserts that I am deviating or derailing, it should be made known that I only entertained this thought process because you, iSlayer, by your hand, have realigned the focus of our discussion from speaking with dialects to addressing me and the fact that I don't buy into Igbo bu Igbo the way you do. Also, it is because I simply cannot conceive of you taking offense (offense of all things) with others the way you seemingly have taken offense with me.

Perhaps, that might be where this is coming from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I cannot claim to be in your head. Neither am I claiming this thought process to be an indisputable truth. I simply thought I'd bring it to your attention seeing as to how you, perhaps unknowingly, realigned the focus of our discussion.

So, a casual conversation for me becomes interpreted as an attempt to hoist Ngwa for you, and as such you have taken offense. Perhaps that is what is happening right now. Or perhaps I'm simply outright wrong. Either way, I take nothing back. I enjoyed my casual banter with Odumchi, and if the opportunity presented itself (be it with Odumchi or anyone else), I'd do it again, because I see nothing wrong in doing so.

I guess that's enough writing on the subject for me.

RedboneSmith:
I spotted some people writing Anambra here and no one asked them to switch to Igbo Izugbe. Just an observation.

EzePromoe:

Muah Muah Will be back later, let me visit my other thread. Don't say what will make them beat you, you hear when i come back i'll by you some goody goody. Be a good girl, you hear. Daddy loves you!

Cyberknight:
Eriri nke a masiri m nke ukwu. Anyi macha n'otutu ndi Igbo amaghi kp'e si asu asusu nwuo. Ikwuo eziokwu, esokwa m n'ime ha, rika ndi a muru na Lagos k'a m wu. Ma na o nwere ihe na-agbagoju m anya: a hube m onye Yoruba nenweghi ike isu asusu ha. Ebe obula ha ji muo nwuo, ha na-asu asusu ha, suda ya n'ala. K'anyi jisikwa ike muta asusu anyi, na-asukwa ya ebe obula anyi no, maka na okwa unu maa na asusu na-anwu anwu mgbe enweghi otutu mmadu na-asu ya. Anyi bu ndi a muru mgbe aluchara ogu Biafra amutaghi Igbo ofuma. Ari kpa umum anyi ga-eme? Ma umu umu anyi? O buru nenweghi ihe anyi mere ugbulaka maka ime k'asusu anyi di ndu, o ga-ala. Jisienu ike.

EzePromoe:
WHAT WE CALL PEOPLE OF OTHER TRIBES
Yorubaman- Onye Yoruba, Onye Yoruba (offensive)
Hausaman- Onye Aboki, Onye Awusa
Ijawman- Onye mbammiri
Efik/Ibibio/Annang man- Onye Kalaba
Englishman- Onye obodo Oyibo
Frenchman- Onye obodo Fransii

iamdurent:
which kan mumu write up be dis. Obu jisike biko.

Cyberknight:


Obviously you are an uneducated fool who doesn't understand the meaning of the word "dialect' as well as a very small boy of no background.

iamdurent:
u dy find person wey go follow u exchange word. Person open thread to teach people central igbo. U come here dey speak ur local dialect. Stupid idiot, go find person wey u go out talk for him mouth.
Small boi indeed, u wey come be old man. Onye iberibe

Cyberknight:


Why would I want to exchange words with a small boy who is desperately seeking to grow a beard and pubic hair by force to the extent of taking female hormones? (https://www.nairaland.com/3662410/taking-postinor-2-give-me)

Obviously you are also confused as well as uneducated, so I shall leave you to your ignorance and crass stupidity. Come back when you are a real man, not a child.

Jisie ike.

MPVGoddess:
so how does one say:

1. i miss you
I've not seen an Igbo Izugbe translation to this but I guess some dialects old enough would have an answer to it. ChinenyeN, how do your people translate this? For me, I say E misirim gi

2. i want to see you
Achorom ihu gi

3. can we meet
Anyi enwere ik'ihu?

in Igbo?


Thanks

iamdurent:
what is oyoyomuagubgho

EzePromoe:

Hmmm, that's my title o. It means the toast (or sweetness) of young ladies

iamdurent:
ladies na agbobia na.

ChinenyeN:
Ezepromoe, we translate that by using our word for nostalgia and longing. I'd like to believe that other Igbo speech forms also have words or expressions for nostalgia and longing. Using those expressions, they should be able to express the sentence "I miss you".

I believe I've seen agwa somewhere either for some other dialects or for Izugbe. So, using agwa, someone could say "agwa gi na-ama m". I'm sure each dialect region may have an expression of their own for nostalgia or longing. If they use it in a similar way, they can all create the "I miss you" sentence.

EzePromoe:

"Agwa gi na-ama m" looks cool though I wasn't expecting it from that angle. But whichever dialect has a literal translation to that should be adapted. That's how languages are developed centerally. Chrysler's translation, "atukatagom anya gi" seems perfect to me.

RedboneSmith:



"Atukatagom anya gi" is more like "I have been expecting you" than "I miss you", isn't it?