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Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by jhswe: 4:19pm On Oct 30, 2016 |
OMAR12: Thank you for all of that!! It seems it's more of a rule than an exception that English loanwords in NP don't mean exactly the same thing as in English. (There is a similar situation for English and Swedish as well.) |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by jhswe: 10:19pm On Oct 30, 2016 |
A question for you all! There is a person in the novel who says "O se!" when she receives a compliment that I think she wanted to hear. I don't want to translate it, but "O se!" means "Oh look!" in Swedish, so I have to change it somehow. Could "O se baba!" be used in that context? Or is there an equivalent expression that I could use instead? By the way: the novel that I'm working on (and trying to get published eventually) is Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett. |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by Amoto94(m): 11:18am On Oct 31, 2016 |
jhswe:O se means thank you. In the context it was used for in the passage the recipient of the compliment is correct to use O se. |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by jhswe: 11:58am On Oct 31, 2016 |
Amoto94: Yes, problem is: people will think it's Swedish and not NP. Is there an equivalent NP expression? |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by Amoto94(m): 6:02pm On Oct 31, 2016 |
jhswe:The right pronunciation is O shé |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by babyfaceafrica: 5:16pm On Nov 01, 2016 |
jhswe:mo dupe meaning am grateful,you could also use wa sere meaning you will do well |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by chrisooblog: 12:10pm On Nov 10, 2016 |
hi jhswe how's your write up coming along? good i hope jhswe: |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by chrisooblog: 12:30pm On Nov 10, 2016 |
hi sorry haven't been on this thread for a while just seeing this. O se is a yoruba (one of the major tribes in nigeria) word meaning thanks/thank you. in the context you want to use it in ''thank you'' will suffice because O se isn't necessarily part of our pidgin it's just a borrowed word that we yorubas tend to incorporate in the pidgin we speak. so you can write it this way ''thank you my G'' G meaning Guy. in this context you're saying ''thanks dude'' or ''thank you my homey''' jhswe: |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by jhswe: 12:19pm On Nov 15, 2016 |
chrisooblog: I see. I'd like to preserve as many regional words and expressions as possible, but this time it'll be too confusing. Thanks again, chrisooblog! |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by Nobody: 9:50pm On Nov 18, 2016 |
jhswe:Oyibo, how far? You still dey onto this matter? I can help you in pure pidgin but if na languages like Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa just count me out because my tribe is different. Anyhow sha, God bless your matter. Ask any Qs on the thread should you hit any bump. Oboy, who be una President sef? I haven't heard the name of Sweden's presido in my life... Lol |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by jhswe: 6:24pm On Dec 03, 2016 |
soupandeba: You are well-informed about the president of Sweden, because this country is a monarchy. For now. We are making progress though: the current king and queen are in no way related. |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by jhswe: 6:27pm On Dec 03, 2016 |
I actually have a lot of questions accumulated now. I figured I might post them all here. I have been talking with a couple of people from this forum, but I think at this point there are too many question marks to straighten for a Skype session ... I'll be back. |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by jhswe: 7:41pm On Dec 04, 2016 |
Now then ... What is a biscuit bone? |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by Amoto94(m): 8:40pm On Dec 04, 2016 |
jhswe:It is a cooked soft bone attached to a beef. |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by jhswe: 2:47pm On Dec 05, 2016 |
Amoto94: Thank you. It'll be difficult to translate, so maybe I'll just leave it ... Is there perhaps another name for it that's not in English, but that's just as natural for people to use? |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by Amoto94(m): 8:51am On Dec 06, 2016 |
jhswe:There is no substitute name for it in local language as far as I know. And moreover any Nigerian who speaks pidgin understand the meaning and its usage of the term biscuit bone. |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by jhswe: 1:32pm On Dec 14, 2016 |
Amoto94: Yeah. But I think Swedes will be bothered by the sudden appearance of an English word ... But they'll live. |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by jhswe: 1:52pm On Dec 14, 2016 |
So ... Another question. Am I right in my assumption that the term "Igbo" is correct (i.e. what Igbo people and others actually say), whereas Ibo is a Western way of saying and spelling it? Regardless of whether you hear it among native Nigerians as well? |
Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by Amoto94(m): 8:41am On Dec 15, 2016 |
jhswe:You are right about that although in the past Western writers used to write it as Eboe. |
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