Sometimes I listen to people speak and I laugh...saying "ERROR" in My head.

1. You can imaging mama Ene saying to Ene "Go and take your bathe or else...".

Now, the thing is:
if (you take your bath) {
no punishments
} else { ...

So the correct phrase should have been "Go and take your bathe else..."


2. You can imaging Mr A and B
Mr A: "Go and clean my room "
Mr B: "I ain't cleaning nothing"

ain't would be evaluated first (the statement becomes True (instead of the intended False) Because of the nothing at the end.

Have you noticed some yourself?

Questions For All

Q1. (from the classical joke of the programmer and his wife)

Wife: Papa Onyi, abeg go market go buy bread for Onyi, If Candi dey buy five.
Husband: OK
Husband: [programing-oriented husband comes back from market...there was a little quarrel!!]

a) What's the quarrel about?
b) What's the correct phrase mama Onyi should have used? (use pidgin English to answer b)

Q2: (conversation between two programmer friends)
Mr Y: look my friend, I don't hate you. If I hate you, would I have sent you a birthday gift?

Mr Z: "No"

Mr Y: [goes around telling the world mr Z thinks he hates him despite mr Z's "no" as answer]

a) Why did Mr Y do that?

This is actually my default mode when talking and listening to others talk. Greatly improves your command of the English language.