Terrible State Of The English Language In Nigeria

@soulpatrol

I actually believe otherwise

Na for naija them dey argue over every nut and bolt of the lingo
The habit of pedantry wey I see say u pick up avidly

For here they really don't give that much of a toss at least in the
spoken version

Obviously the standards of the written version is high altho
they would rather do without the penchant for verbosity wey naija get

tell them

you hit the nail on the head bro, some people think its by using plenty big words amd senseless tautologies that they make sense

clear and simple communication is essential, no more. if you want to blow big grammar, go and be a lawyer or something, or go join student union for campus, those guys blow the most senseless grammar i've ever heard. and some mumus will be cheering them on

I remember the one my friend made up one night

prostitutic akokites
ayangbaristic akokites 

all in the name of sounding intelligent 

"Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that
shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known"

I agree with you on the  private school teachers.  Not all of them are bad really, of course there are private schools and there are private schools. You've just reminded me of one female private school teacher in my area who also happens to be my house fellowship teacher. My-oh-my,  if I write the kind of English she speaks here you'll say it's gross exageration. It's as bad as not being able to pronounce some 3-letter words, eg she once read 'pin' as 'pain' and 'toe' as 'two' (mind you shes not know with any eye-defect!) Honestly I'm not sure she finished secondary school, and you can imagine what kind of English her poor pupils will be taught in school. Oops

I suggest fijian

Its so remote, it is surely the only thing wey no go cause conflict for Naija

I think 

You too wan turn pedant abi

No make me kick you all the way to Suva o.

They might mistake you for a kaffir 

Ol bob shay na that one for maza maza.

Remember say na with Hausa them dey teach us 

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You NEVA SEE PROPER IBUN(MISS USE OF ENGLISH)

WHEN You ENCOUNTER D REAL 1 You WILL JUS CHANGE THIS TOPIC,WE NO TRY WHY DEM NO FIT COME ERE TRY DIS STRONG PIDGIN WEY WE DEY TALK.
You GO OFFICE You GO YAN D TIN,REACH HOUSE You GO YAN AM AGAIN?ABEG FREE STORY 4 TORTOISE.
NO WORRY I GO SEND SOME REAL LANGUAGE-KILLERS 2 UR OFFICE,THEN You LL KNOW HOW FAR

PEOPLE THAT CAN USE SENTENCES LIKE THIS WITHOUT FEAR

I LL CALL You INCASE OF ANY EVENTUALLY
You BETTER WENT TO SCHOOL AND DONT BE LATE

I BEG MAKE I STOP ERE,I THRIVE ON POOR ENGLISH FRM MY PEOPLE 4 MY LISTENING ENTERTAINMENT,lol

na u sabi, vigil is not always at night oooo, there is morning vigil. as per reverse back, what is wrong with that one, i can reverse front, and for your info, reverse itself is wrong in the states, it is back out, or back something but not reverse, just like u say open your boot, they say pump the trunk, na who correct? abeg Nigeria form your own english jare, na we own.

correct man, na the levels

suck am back. na we language be that. hoha. we love am

truth my brother

pidgin all the way. wetin de shele for this zone nothing mega

 omo mehn! oga o!  


u knw na only naija dudes i c sey dnt appreciate stuff at all especially some of those wey them born for yonda{no generalization now!}. the ability of the american english to be different from the so-called queens english today is one of the things that made the country soooooo great.  wu says anytin is wrong with our pidgin english, should be hav his/her passport withdrawn- wetin be that one? even when yu study the pigdin english in nigeria, yu'll discova it has soo many forms that lends credence to class strata and stuff- the average literate naija dude speaks what is called refined pidgin and u get to hia another man from the ghetto speak some pidgin and yu'll be like woa! so it is in Britain and in yankee and in australia and so on. so wats yur big problem wit our own creole- abeg leave am for us o! FILE!!!!!!!!!!!!