Funny Marriage Proposal

wendy is actually married

now clean the egg off your face.

The funniest aspect is - how many married women in naija ever received any sort of formal proposal?


True true, Mills and Boon and Hollywood don spoil some women head sotey them no fit reason well again.

Abeg, leave wetin them write for motor, enter motor - is it mode of proposal that determines the future of the marriage?

yea most of his posts are pretty childish.

O boy e come be like say you dey dense small sha. The issue here is not the way the guy proposed, and no one is saying that the way he proposes determines how the marriage is going to be. It's the weight of the words "i've finally decided to marry you" that's the issue. A simple "would you marry me" would be far more appropriate, as opposed to using a sentence that gives the impression that he's doing her a favor. No one is saying it has to be elaborate, it just needs to come out right. And if "i've finally decided to marry you" is the best that could come out, then we have a problem o, because that says a lot, seriously!

chei, and I thought I was talking to person wey get small sense. E be like say you be under-age true true. We'll give you another 10 or so years until you're ready to get married. Until then, let's leave this matter alone.

Hmm! Windywendy, how u deh? Long time  Good to see you again 

How na? I dey o. I Usually post on the business section mainly but just couldn't help clicking on this thread when I saw it in the front page.  . Very funny topic.

Very funny and funny replies too. I wonder what woman in her right senses will think a man is doing her a favor by proposing. Women sometimes make me sick with their esteem. Gosh!

 

Why would you want to propose marriage to a woman whose love and intentions toward you are in question? You be mugu? Is that the kind of woman you want to spend the rest of your life with? I'll say "don't propose marriage", at least not until you've cleared up all your doubts _{chei, i'm beginning to feel like a marriage counsellor already}

 

LOL!! Anyway you have a point there. I guess we don't all have the same objectives when it comes to marriage. With some people, marriage by batter is the bomb! But to others, it has to be a rewarding experience o, and so a lot of emphasis is placed on choosing the right person. Different strokes, I'ld say. . .

Chief wetin you wan add
I can also claim to be out of the country, so nobody is intimidated
Lets assume you are out, our grand parents were forcefully taken to the west, some  of all after evaluating situations force our self, by ship, land or air(very few) to go increase the number over there dey post 1 every payday dey make so much noise. You no dey here, person when e dey here, dey tell you wetin dey happen back home you dey argue

Chei, your secret don reveal o! Me think say you been dey busy for church  Either that or that valium+milk combo still dey work im magic 

Me no go love section o. Na for front page I see the topic come click, and needless to say, the topic and responses I saw were nothing short of hilarious. So things like these still happen 

No go talk the one wey go hunt you for future

 

Fight ke?! Me with these eaglets? No min them. Ah dey talk my own jeje na im all the feminazi for nairaland surface thinkng sey they can intimidate the black lion himself with their usual tactics of crude abuse and snide comments.

Its truly a tragedy to see a black man invoke Tarzan stereotypes in the 21st century. You have a lot of reading up to do. What next? If I invoke naija culture, you will dredge up rituals and cannibalism, abi?

Western society is afflicted by feminazi ideology and liberal stupidity - unfortunately too many African females swallow the Western worldview wholesale without looking at the downsides e.g. to see what has become of marriage and the family in the West especially among black Americans.

I repeat Mills and Boon plus Hollywood have a lot to answer for - they've created unrealistic expectations of romantic love - in fact, more or less created a new human right to romantic love which is simply unrealistic.  It is these unrealistic notions and expectations that have destroyed marriage and the family in America.

 In Nigeria's ornate brand of English, Victorian words dance with African grammar
By Edward Harris
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.03.2008

LAGOS, Nigeria — In Nigeria, people felicitate the successful, police open cans of worms on cutlass-brandishing miscreants, and the criminal rascals meet their Waterloo.

Touts, urchins, and heaps of calumny: Nigerian English melds Victorian-era vocabulary inherited from long-gone British colonialists with the grammatical structures and syntax that underpin indigenous languages in Africa's most populous nation.

The results can be ornate, oddly understated, or remarkably apt. But in a rapidly globalizing world, some worry that Nigerians will be handicapped by an English that differs from the language of board rooms and Internet bulletin boards.

For Adeyemi Daramola, an English professor at University of Lagos, it's a quandary: As an academic, he finds Nigerian usage fascinating and indicative of rich and varied influences. But he worries that it's undermining local languages, leaving younger generations unable to speak their parents' native tongue and conversant only in an argot not easily understood outside Nigeria.

"As a teacher, we want to see these differences. We're pleased with our geographical difference, and our semantic differences," he says.

"But we're at a crossroads now where some people don't understand standard English, and also not their indigenous tongue," he says. "And that's a tragedy because then you don't belong anywhere."

As a colony, Nigeria was very lightly settled by Europeans. A few hundred administrators came, along with Christian missionaries who taught English so that converts could read the Bible. When Nigeria became independent in 1960, it adopted English as the language of instruction and administration.

Within borders drawn in colonial times, Nigeria's 140 million people speak hundreds of languages, and "English is the language of national unity," says Daramola. "In a multilingual situation, it serves the people."

Others disagree, saying English is a colonial import whose widespread usage excludes the rural and less educated.

It has developed over the years with a Nigerian twist. For example, a TV isn't switched on or off — it's "on-ed" or "off-ed."

A Nigerian congratulating someone on a success or victory will likely "felicitate" him rather than offer felicitations. Similarly, people are invited to "jubilate," or celebrate, a triumph.

Sentence structure often reflects local languages, says Daramola. In the Yoruba language, adjectives can be altered by repeating them. So in Nigerian English a very small boy would be a "small, small boy."

Also, Yoruba English speakers may "smell" soup, rather than taste it, because the words are similar in Yoruba.

"The influence of native languages have combined to make performance a little peculiar," says the introduction to the textbook "Nigerian English," published in 2004. "The Nigerian variant of English seems to have emerged since there are so many influences impinging on its acquisition and use in its new home."

Many words are simply holdovers from the colonial era. Eateries are called "Chop Houses" — once popular but now all but vanished from Britain.

Upset stomach? Take "gripe water." Puncture? Take the tire to the "vulcanizer."

Street children are "urchins," and police often brand criminals as "touts," "rascals," or "miscreants" who carry "cutlasses" — machetes.

In reporting crime, Nigerian newspapers say police open a can of worms when raiding criminal hideouts. A dead or jailed robber is often said to meet his Waterloo. Politicians "heap calumny" on those they accuse of corruption.

In another influence of Nigerian languages, no letter is missed when speaking English. Fuel is FOO-el. A receipt is a "re-seeped," and yacht frequently rhymes with hatched. Wednesday is pronounced exactly as written — Wed-nes-day — and a leopard rhymes with leotard.

In many areas of southern Nigeria where the Yoruba predominate, an "o" is added to the end of a word to add emphasis, a practice in the Yoruba language. Most noticeable is a shout of "Sorry-o!" to someone who trips or suffers another misfortune.

While Internet and satellite TV access exposes ever greater numbers of Africans to standard English, Nigerians are fusing the lingo of the World Wide Web with their own patois.

Who's behind those infamous e-mails promising lucrative payoffs for hiding an African potentate's ill-gotten gains? In Nigeria, the press is filled with the exploits of the "Yahoo-Yahoo boys," from the e-mail and search-engine company used by many of the scammers.

"I entered the Yahoo business just to survive after I was robbed of all my money," one man explained. "There is money in Yahoo but one is not always lucky. Sometimes in two months you can make $200 — but we pray for a big catch."

What are you whining about? You can't control the world or what people choose to believe or imbibe. It's a free world. If you think women have unrealistic expectations of romantic love, then stay away from them! All your complaints and unnecessary musings about feminazi etc etc will not change a thing. All this one wey you dey yarn na old story. The fact remains that most people develop expectations of what they want out of a marriage relationship, and will pursue those expectations. If you don't like the expectations set by one person, then find yourself someone who has the same expectations as you. It's way better than all the complaining and "trying to save the marriage institution" mentality you're adopting.