@ sweetestjoy,

Good one!

I sent u a mail n you haven't responded. Why? Hope to hear from you soonest.

hi dears,
that post was meant for the topic 2;1 and 2;2 but it is still in place.

ogs,
sorry i gave you a wrong email, it is sweetestjoy4u@hotmail.com.
hope to hear from you soon

pls could you help me with alcatels test format.
my email add usaoladele@yahoo.com

thanks

Nice one!!!!! I support the last speaker , Abeg give us some breathing space, shooo no be by force make person sabi english, over education de worry some pple sef.na wa ooooh.

Nice one!!!!! I support TBADMUS!!! , Abeg give us some breathing space, shooo no be by force make person sabi english, over education de worry some pple sef.na wa ooooh.

well said nairalander, spoken english is really bad, we cannot make excuses for ourselves any longer if we really want to compete in the globe. thanks for that wake up call!

Am sure most nigerians don't like writing full english. We always like d text format whereby words are shortened.

speak for yourself.

nice one.

Selling oneself on Nairaland? Are you kidding? I mean, which employer, in their right mind, would scout for prospective job applicants on a Nigerian blog, when there are other avenues like the classifieds? Seriously, would you@the poster? This is a Nigerian board, and people should be free to express themselves in whatsoever language, be it pidgin or correct English. As long as their discourse is understandable, that should not pose a problem.

While I appreciate @Dargly's advice on self improvement, I agree with the view that he has carried it a bit farther.

Judging people's grammatical competence on the internet can be rather very misleading. Firstly, people feel free in a forum like this and the primary thing is just to communicate. Secondly, there WILL always be both grammatical and typographical errors (and even @Dargly should not cast the first stone): people just want to get in, do so much in a limited time, and get out again (in support of @Ndipe). The spontaneity in communication - like when chatting - also causes this. Why should we now be rather 'obscurantist' like Uncle Kongi? Besides, even graduates of English (like me) still make written and oral blunders, albeit pardonable or not. Nobody is above mistake.

Like @Dargly, I'm poor in Pidgin English too, but that may have to do with individual background: I know people who are as eloquent in good English as they are in Pidgin English. Criticizing Pidginers may have envious tendencies.

However, Dargly's advice on self-improvement and good self-presentation is objective.

we dey represent naija, it all depends on d message u are passing across, a joke might be represented in form of a slang or coined word

On the job board, keep it simple, make it concise and as much as possible use proper tenses, spellings etc.

Some keep suggesting that employers would never come scouting on this forum for candidates so it justifies using whatever "language" one wants to use to communicate.

I think it's high time dargly stopped laying emphasis on the use of pidgin English. If u like, acquire Obj power join Ribadu own, Pidgin no go pafuka.

You've made your point from day 1, and that's okay. When you know it's a job board, you defiled it by writing unspeakable wordson it. I'm yet to see your apology.

Lest I forget, a village head-master is needed(this is 4 u dargly)

Thief,what you saying? Speak 4 yourself?
I guess that's why we've aliases ere

I am pleased to see that we are beginning to regulate ourselves in Nairaland
nice jobs

_{still watching}

Okay. Let's start speaking good english. some employers might stop at Nairaland to hire their next workers 

PS: Don't forget to add big grammar in your post too. 

Ndipe, abi ooo 

maybe Warren Buffet and Bill Gate's Recruiter lol

if english language is an official language for this forum i would have recommended a strict adherence. be that as it may, we should be constructive in our submissions even if we are going to mix it with pidgin or mother tongue.

its of essence to know that there is a lot observation to be considered in peoples staments irrespective of language. the fun is its contextual meaning and its mode. i knw big companies that relates in pidgin, like parley how far?, ol boy work dey o, wetin dey? and all that stuff. what i mean is we shoulb more constructive in our atatements and be modest. i must also state here that the way some of us attack fellow nairalanders when they reply to others mistakes or wrong submissions. this kills the spirit of interraction in some people thus making fellows to withdraw.

i think we should be more concerned about constructive statements i n our submissions, i beleive we are all understand good english of communication and can or may juice up our posts with either pidgin or mother tongue as we wish to drive home our points.

i can comunite in any form and still make sense

nairaland is the best of all forums ive known and more people should be encouraged to enlist and remain a contributor,participant. we could also benefit a lot from peoples mistake.

your friend's courage remains your strenght

cheers

Hi everyone,
This is my first post on this forum though I'm not a new member. I read through all the replies and I think everyone has made their point very well, I just want to add that we all are entitled to our own opinions and if you can't get others to agree with you then pause, respect their opinions and leave it at that. Afterall, everbody sabi how he wan take find job. Oops! Pardon my pidgin but I couldnt resist the temptation. In case you're checking or not I made sure there was NO ERROR on my post.    Employers take note.

Love you all and please vote for the man/woman you believe can make Nigeria Great.

Abi una see error?

Yes I caught one. It's Porum not Forum

lol

i still wonder if you need to dress formal to a night club because your future employer might be at the bar

@ diyo,your sarcasm is swamping the entire forum now. Let's be subtle,

I guess I'll agree a bit with my guy on selling selves & spelling correctly its very important - when looking for a job. but honestly, I tell my boss "wetin dey" & pidgin english is sweet! I work with a lot of white folks & they'll die to learn it. All said, please when its time to speak english, speak it well.
B/4 I forget, a new TV series is out on NTA Network Sundays @ 8.30pm called "Wetin Dey?." Its produced by my organisation - I mean where I work. Watch it and lets talk about Naija.

It is simple,
look into the picture of your present life,
for it determins your future,
if your are the flame you cant be burn.



Life is what you make of it!

It is simple,
look into the picture of your present life,
for it determins your future,
if your are the flame you cant be burn.



Life is what you make of it!

hello house,
Any news about Zenith Bank Test of 26th March,2007?

Be it pidgin, broken or queen's, what matters is: use them accordingly! It is fun if you can communicate with the 'lingua franca' and your mother tongue fluently. For me, I speak, read and write them with high acceptability

When I started work, I was really upset with the way my superiors were blowing pidgin and I felt it was well below standard. But when they want to speak queen's english, you discover you are not their match! I mean, if you have never seen them before and you talk to them on phone, you will think they are britons.

I have been to top organisations and seen directors blowing pidgin. The funny thing is that they start even as soon as they are out of the interview room!!

Obasanjo blows it to my admiration. That does not stop him from communicating in standard English. Know what? If you resort to queen's try as much as possible to minimise your errors. Simple. Know where to be queen or area!!

One love all.

At last post- u don talk am. Just be yourself- writing english is different from speaking it

guy english na your papa language abeg if you no say u get tribe say am here make u write ur language for here and for another man language una get power. then this omo oshi

darqly:

@ diyo,your sarcasm is swamping the entire forum now. Let's be subtle,

i dont think so.
but any way
next!