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We Need A Name For So-Called 'Pidgin English' by Rossnitti: 3:28am On Feb 17, 2021 |
I don't know why we like embarrassing ourselves by terming our most popular language ''pidgin English''. Or 'brokin'. What nonsense. We need to find a proper name and give the language. In other climes they call their version of hybridized English by actual names, eg Creole, Patois, Gullah, etc. So we should find one correct name and name our own. Any NAME suggestions welcome! I fancy the term NAIJINO. |
Re: We Need A Name For So-Called 'Pidgin English' by tillaman(m): 4:20am On Feb 17, 2021 |
Apt!! Threads like this gives me joy but it’s so hard to get most of our folks woke! We can call it NAIJA |
Re: We Need A Name For So-Called 'Pidgin English' by joshjc(m): 4:30am On Feb 17, 2021 |
Very correct and should be our nation language too and should be used in all functions and thought and used in schools But most parents this days we punish they children for speaking it, because they want to claim refined and educated |
Re: We Need A Name For So-Called 'Pidgin English' by illicit(m): 5:14am On Feb 17, 2021 |
Well, whatever we call it, it is still a version of a foreign language.... It can never be used as a language of instruction or as Nigeria's official Language because it has no standard variety unlike proper languages. It can be standardised with time but at that time is no longer pidgin. No language is superior to another actually but pidgin is not a 'Language' nor dialect. According to the name it is a pidgin version of a Language. Every language can have a pidgin. e.g Portuguese, french, Even Yoruba but we mostly have dialects. Creole is somewhat different to pidgin because it has native speakers. As in that's the only language they know. Speakers of pidgin do speak another language even if only their mother tongue.... |
Re: We Need A Name For So-Called 'Pidgin English' by Prolific007(m): 5:55am On Feb 17, 2021 |
Op this is commendable, we Nigerian need to start valuing our own. This so called pigin language can be advanced whereby structures can be made in a in other to refine it. America has their own english language which was carved out of the one of their colonial master. We need to start using our heads in this country. |
Re: We Need A Name For So-Called 'Pidgin English' by Nobody: 6:16am On Feb 17, 2021 |
I have some questions WHAT IS YOUR NIGERIAN NAME? WHAT IS NIGERIAN LANGUAGE WHAT IS NIGERIAN FOOD WHAT IS NIGERIAN CULTURE THINK IT DEEP AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND NIGERIA IS NEITHER A COUNTRY NOR A NATION |
Re: We Need A Name For So-Called 'Pidgin English' by CodeTemplar: 9:53am On Feb 17, 2021 |
Before that we need a name for the peculiar situation killing Naija. |
Re: We Need A Name For So-Called 'Pidgin English' by Nobody: 9:54am On Feb 17, 2021 |
Naijois (Derived from patois) |
Re: We Need A Name For So-Called 'Pidgin English' by BlackfireX: 10:57am On Feb 17, 2021 |
Op your mates are looking for solutions to some world problems, you are here yapping Jobless youth |
Re: We Need A Name For So-Called 'Pidgin English' by Rossnitti: 9:54pm On Feb 17, 2021 |
Naijois Why must we 'derive' from anything? You people sef. |
Re: We Need A Name For So-Called 'Pidgin English' by Rossnitti: 9:55pm On Feb 17, 2021 |
BlackfireX: I think proper self-identity among Africans is a 'world problem'. This topic is relevant. |
Re: We Need A Name For So-Called 'Pidgin English' by Rossnitti: 9:59pm On Feb 17, 2021 |
Prolific007: Absolutely. Can you imagine when we start having chemistry books penned in 'pidgin'..? History books, Economics, IT, Geography, Medicine etc etc. I think it would be fantastic and broaden our pool of talent significantly. The first step, I think, is to give the language a NAME. 1 Like |
Re: We Need A Name For So-Called 'Pidgin English' by Elock1: 9:02am On Feb 18, 2021 |
All the problems in Nigeria, it's pidgin you are concerned about?? |
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