Terrible State Of The English Language In Nigeria

what 'real world' is pitching their tent in mars?

don't the Astronauts learn to communicate in English before going on to do more difficult tasks? or na pidgin them dey yarn for mars? 

When simple mastery of language is beyond you, how do you honestly expect to accomplish greater things Mr redsun to whom only white meat 'measures up to his realm'?

PS- the above quotation was an attempt to sound intelligent by using big. . you guessed it! - English words like 'realm', but ends up a completely meaningless statement - someone talking about colonial mentality but is living in the uk and is enslaved to white crumpet 

Is English their national language?

Russian astronauts who work on the international space station (ISS) speak English, the Japanese astronauts will speak English when it is needed, so will the Chinese.

Einstein - one of the greatest minds ever, was Jewish/German in origin, did he speak English?

What language do the majority of Nobel prize winners and even the dominant nation in space exploration speak? Yoruba? 

dude you have no point, shagging all them white gals has reduced your brain cells irreparably 

Why must english be our official language,are we english?an english man is anglo- saxon.And you mustay, what has language got to do with bitches?some white women are natural and have less faith in the draconian men dominated system,that is why they go with real black men because they want to feel the natural rythms of nature.

redsun i love your way of telling them 

(We are still jabbering about english language while the real world is pitching their tents in mars.I can't seize to be amazed at a typical black man's little view of the world.)

Because Nigeria was ruled by the British?? Once they left, your people should have voted for pidgin to replace it. You still have time though.

Why is Portugese the language of Brazil?
Why is French the language of Togo/Senegal, etc
Why is English the language of Ghana?
Why is English the language of America???

Are you serious with these idiotic questions?

lmao debo. These people are mere comedians

before it was "man's view of the word"

For a minute there I thought he was referring to the Bible 

They are not even trying to make this discourse interesting at all. 

I am beginning to see part of Fufu's aversion to pidgin, if they were rooting for indigenous languages or something, I would understand, but they just keep jumping through hoops and confusing themselves. Some people like 925 have proposed cogent reasons to return to use of indigenous languages in instruction and education, but court jesters like redsun just amuse me.

Romeo its your turn - what are your contributions to Nigeria/Africaor maybe i should reduce it to the Igbo liberation from the shackles of 'oyibo man's language'? Or don't tell me your own side of the research is Spanish Crumpet? 

you seem to misunderstand my point in this whole thread!! i am not against people speaking English language but what i am against is people overlooking some more important subjects academically, people attaching so much importance to English above every other thing in education, after all it is all about communicating with people and the more you know it or the lesser you know it should not be an issue

Debo, i speak and write Igbo perfectly and the worst thing that can happen to me is being able to write and speak perfect English without having a clue on where to start with my own language

before i forget na igbo crumpet be my area of research

Romeo I thank God for your life, if you no fir speak Igbo properly, I for tell Ndi Igbo to disown you with immediate effect 

coming back to the issue of English vis a vis other academically important subjects, as a research assistant, one thing I've learned is this - regardless of how good or excellent your math/chemistry/physics/engineering/biotech skills or discoveries are, if you cannot present your work (in academic journals and conference presentations) in presentable and understandable English (usually the language of publication) or whatever language is accepted in that field

you will go unnoticed and unrecognised, in fact your journal publication will be rejected outright and never published, ditto for proposals to get grants to fund your research. All your hard work might as well go down the drain without proper presentation/communication to your target audience

In that regard, you can never over-emphasise the importance of developing good communication skills, and it begins by imbibing a habit of speaking/writing proper English with minimal errors.

If you fail in this seemingly unimportant area, you might be severely limiting your growth/potentials.

crumpet? hmm, where is doyin when you need him? 

my apology to the ladies

for the record it was romeo who equated crumpet to the other infamous c - word. In my experience, crumpet refers to a sexy lady, or is a crude way of describing the genitalia thereof.

between all this talk of crumpet is getting me hungry for a snack 

She sells seashells down by the seashore! 

LOL. It's a tongue-twister.

I wonder how you translate that into pidgin?

 
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