ThePeacemaker:
Coz we were colonized by "BRITAIN" and not "PIDGIANS"....................... Oya translate this pidgin to Enqlish "2'0' clock don nak tey tey"...........

translation Britain in pidgin

hardbody:


Why do the English teach English language?

Warped reasoning.

get a sense of humor dude

and who this pidgin wan hep na?. The world is becoming a global village. you are teaching the 21st century kid to communicate in pidgin. no be wahala you dey find so. If anything should be thought it should be our local languages. not one substandard white man's language.

We no dey appreciate our own tin na today?

lexiconkabir:


Have you ever thought of the effect it will have on students if they were taught Maths in pidgin? As in breaking all those vocabularies into pidgin?

We could call it Nigerian English, if youve not seen foreigners trying to learn pidgin i have seen, even here on NL.

Let's start with u, how do u teach a variation of a major language without form?

And who do translate vocabulary and jargons of the main language to d variation?

E.g: write these sentences inpidgin english.

1. I am agoraphobic
2. The comprehension passage is too complex and complicated for me to comprehend.
3. The juxtaposition of these theoretical concepts is tantamount to futility.

Oya o....i dey wait.

Who pidgin English Epp?

Its not a type of language na... Just an informal way of speaking english. Thats why u cannot speak pidgin without English words. Let's just leave it as being informal. Besides, there are several ways of speaking pidgin, different people speak their pidgin quite differently

ThePeacemaker:
Coz we were colonized by "BRITAIN" and not "PIDGIANS"....................... Oya translate this pidgin to Enqlish "2'0' clock don nak tey tey"...........

THE TIME HAS PAST 2'0 CLOCK FOR LONG.

weblord1900:
what do you want them to teach you again in pidgin English ..nawao

O su Mi o

Madam: today is pidgin language

students: shooo!

Madam: shatap dia

(principal enters)

student: goo morning sir

principal: ehen, how una dey?

Student:fine ooo, hw body na??

Principal: thunder fire una for there, ooo shey na because everypesin dey speak pidgin na he makam una dey talk like that abi?

Ah no blame una, na federal gov. Fault

The language is officially known as NIGERIAN PIDGIN. From research, it is the most widely spoken language and most widely understood language in Nigeria. Most people who don't understand or speak English still use Nigerian Pidgin to a considerable extent.
I discovered that many places in Nigeria have some localized forms of the language. For example, there is Waffi (Warri&environs), Baffi (Benin&environs), Jos pidgin, Kaduna pidgin, and of course, Ajegunle/Lagos pidgin. The challenge is how to synthesize the various localized forms of the language into a congruent whole such that it can be used and understood by all Nigerians and others. The language needs to be in more written form.
It has also been discovered that many who claim to understand Nigerian Pidgin cannot read it, as they have been used to the slang form. Interestingly, some organizations and media houses are now promoting the language. I know of Wazobia FM in Lagos. The Jehovah's Witnesses are also actively promoting the use of a standardized form of Nigerian Pidgin as they have produced several videos and written publications in Nigerian Pidgin. They also have a pidgin website at WWW.JW.ORG/PCM.
Apart from Nigerian Pidgin, there are many other forms of pidgin worldwide, including but not limited to: Cameroonian Pidgin, Solomon Islands Pidgin, etc.

My broda and sista dem, the koko of the mata be sey mek all of us dey use the language because na we own. E dey make us fit gum bodi well and undastand one anoda. Wetin I dey talk be sey, Nigerian Pidgin, e gud well well! Na Baba God take am bless us for we kontri!

ThePeacemaker:
Coz we were colonized by "BRITAIN" and not "PIDGIANS"....................... Oya translate this pidgin to Enqlish "2'0' clock don nak tey tey"...........

it's past 2 since

Posh one... It's past 2 already

AreaFada2:
Gbam! Most annoying when a girl who cannot even speak the English dey form phonair. Very fake.

No country in the world ever achieved anything tangible with a non-native language as official language. UK, Germany, France., USA, Canada, South Korea, China, Italy. Just name it. All have native languages.

Even North Korea would not make atomic weapon if they had adopted Erik, Yoruba or Vietnamese as official language.

It affects innovation, thought process, intelligence of most people generally using a borrowed language.

SEUN OOOOH Ban this man

Pavore9:
I see no reason why it should be taught rather focus should be on our younger ones learning and speaking our local languages because many are heading to extinction.

What local language? Are you aware that we multi lingual?

Because it's not official.

Because it's not official.

asuustrike2009:

What local language? Are you aware that we multi lingual?

Are you aware that many cannot communicate in their mother tongue? English language is taught in schools, Pidgin is the street version which people easily pick up. Why should effort be made for it to be taught in schools also not forgetting it has so many variants? I communicate fluently in English, Igbo, Yoruba, pidgin and Swahili. so speaking one's mother tongue is a preservation of identity.

Donbrig:
I've been wondering how a language like pidgin English that is widely spoken all over Nigeria is yet to be officially taught as a subject in our learning institutions. I think it is high time we take pidgin English to a very high level and polish it a bit. Even our politicians use it often during campaigns and some other African countries also speak pidgin English. Sometimes, I wonder how the western world would have packaged and polish pidgin English if it were to be their language.

BECAUSE IN PIDGIN ENGLISH ANY HOW YOU SPEAK AM IT IS CORRECT. WETIN YOU WANT TEACH AGAIN?

Pavore9:


Are you aware that many cannot communicate in their mother tongue? English language is taught in schools, Pidgin is the street version which people easily pick up. Why should effort be made for it to be taught in schools also not forgetting it has so many variants? I communicate fluently in English, Igbo, Yoruba, pidgin and Swahili. so speaking one's mother tongue is a preservation of identity.

We talking of mother tongue right, if everyone speaks their mother tongue how would they communicate among themselves?

ThePeacemaker:
Coz we were colonized by "BRITAIN" and not "PIDGIANS"....................... Oya translate this pidgin to Enqlish "2'0' clock don nak tey tey"...........

Hahahah bad guy...
translation... 2 0 clock has nak since morning... hahahaha

I was born speaking pidgin, I didn't learn it from anywhere. Why are you saying it should be taught in schools?
I'm the one that will teach my 'teacher' the language!

asuustrike2009:

We talking of mother tongue right, if everyone speaks their mother tongue how would they communicate among themselves?

That is why English language is taught in schools and pidgin is picked up easily in the course of interaction with others, speakers of it did not pick it up from the classroom!

martineverest:
is patois a standard english?

It is not standard and so is not taught in schools. Jamaicans don't write or submit assignments using patois. They may speak patois every day, but they write standard English.

Donbrig:
I've been wondering how a language like pidgin English that is widely spoken all over Nigeria is yet to be officially taught as a subject in our learning institutions. I think it is high time we take pidgin English to a very high level and polish it a bit. Even our politicians use it often during campaigns and some other African countries also speak pidgin English. Sometimes, I wonder how the western world would have packaged and polish pidgin English if it were to be their language.

This article annoys me slightly as someone who read English.
Anyone who spent a moderate amount of time studying English in the university or borrowing a course from English would easily be able to explain it to you. Back then, we inquired the same question to our lecturers, "why isn't pidgin the official language of Nigeria?"

First, in order to get some facts right, let me tell you now that "pidgin" or "broken" or "vernacular" is NOT a "language". (As a matter of fact, calling it so in an English lecture room back then was the fastest way to annoy our lecturer.)

If i recall correctly, in the stages of language formation, there are:
Pidgins
Creoles
Languages

Now Pidgin is a regional and social variety derived from the proper British English in which it's main use was as a language of commerce and limited communication. In other words, ALL forms of pidgin exists because it was REQUIRED for colonial masters to communicate with their slaves (I.e. us), and as such they invented a bastardized form of the language which was aptly utilized for that purpose.
It was only after the colonial rule that certain countries still utilized the pidgin, most usually due to their lack of proficiency in the proper British English.

Nigerian Pidgin borrows words heavily from other varieties, lacks unique phonological, orthographical, lexical and syntactical cohesiveness, and it is a primitive form of language which only exists today due to its ease of accessibility to Nigerians as a neutral ground of communication between all the different tribes. The Nigerian Pidgin cannot become a language because there are several different varieties of it as spoken according to their users, with each tribe impacting their own signature on the way they use it.

Before the Nigerian pidgin can be considered worthy enough to stand on its own as a language, it needs to undergo several steps and then evolve to become a creole and then undergo even MORE steps before we can even think of calling it a language.

But so far, the chances of that happening are very, very slim.

So in short: bros, abeg fashi that pidgin jawe and go learn beta thing, cause as i dey see am ba, na d correct English sweet pass for mouth.

tunes1102:
Is pigin English a language or coined language. How will they teach a coined language in school?? For example, if they have Yoruba as subject, they will also have ijebu Yoruba as another subject and also ondo Yoruba as another subject and so on

Is patois of Jamaica not coined

weblord1900:
what do you want them to teach you again in pidgin English ..nawao

Them suppose make am compulsory for all the northern states sef.

Donbrig:
I've been wondering how a language like pidgin English that is widely spoken all over Nigeria is yet to be officially taught as a subject in our learning institutions. I think it is high time we take pidgin English to a very high level and polish it a bit. Even our politicians use it often during campaigns and some other African countries also speak pidgin English. Sometimes, I wonder how the western world would have packaged and polish pidgin English if it were to be their language.

I wonder too.

Pavore9:


That is why English language is taught in schools and pidgin is picked up easily in the course of interaction with others, speakers of it did not pick it up from the classroom!

Why is India and China different inspite of their mulpilicity

ThePeacemaker:
Coz we were colonized by "BRITAIN" and not "PIDGIANS"....................... Oya translate this pidgin to Enqlish "2'0' clock don nak tey tey"...........

America was colonized by the british and dey got american english. e no bad if we get naija english

LizGray:
Shame! They think its for local touts. Motor park language. Them wan form posh.

Funny enough the whites love it, sounds smoother to me

Emeskhalifa:

Is patois of Jamaica not coined

Is Patois formally taught in Jamaican schools?

I'm asking a honest question o, no be say I dey pull ya legs

LizGray:
Shame! They think its for local touts. Motor park language. Them wan form posh.

so true, pidgin got it all when expressing yourself.