IYANGBALI:
ari oko yo

MissMeiya:


Yes, it does. This "English is not my father's language" is a shoddy excuse for poor grammar. Which language are you using right now? Whatever language you are using, you must use it correctly.

Did you know that English is not America's official language? But it is Nigeria's official language. Who should speak it better? Smh.

nefertiitii:



Sikiratu omo arokoyo motigbo ohh
Mo ma sofun cynthia kpe on lo pishure re

Octaves:
That's not nigerian english. If you are familiar with hollywood, you will know it's used very much in the US. But like somebody pointed out, it is informal but not grammatically wrong

IYANGBALI:
who be cynthia?

Keenysbojan:
I can some traces of dullness..(no offence please)

Lilimax:

As in erh...you got the gist.
But like seriously, do they make sense ?

nefertiitii:



d gal on ur dp

nefertiitii:



d gal on ur dp

IYANGBALI:

nefertiitii:



Iyangbali don change d pishure
I no go talk again

dabriggs:

They think it is ''swag'' as they call it. What most of them do not know is that this way of talking is actually Street, Low Class and Trashy English.

Only illiterates who were brought up in ghettos or the streets talk like that.

The moment a lady or man talks this way, I immediately sum you up as Illiterate or semi literate, an uninformed mind and a street trash wannabe.

davdandam:
Nice observation but I'm like ok lemme add this ftc in case

milychocs:




Nah
You have it all wrong
English is the construct of colonialism
I would not judge anyone's intelligence (an African) by their ablity to speak, or write good English

But I would totally judge anyone and see them as without class, cruel and even still with slave mentality..(did anyone ever read those books on slavery?) if they judged people or treated them unkindly in real life or online because of simple inability to speak or write good English

During slavery in America, the slave in charge of the others (usually chosen cos he learnt the language of domination first, or better)
would be treated a bit more nicely, and then, what happens is that he feels better than other slaves, treats them with disrespect, gets uppity and starts feeling like the master

But you know what? He was still a slave, he knew it, the other slaves knew it, and their master knew it

So what gives?
(I give up, at us!)

spotit:
Have a rest already, Mr Noble Snob. have you been to Buckingham palace? do you know cornwall or anywhere in england? plug the hypercorrect-incorrectness already.

Keenysbojan:
did you go to school at all? (no offense)

dabriggs:


So, Mr unrefined and servile, one must have been to Buckingham Palace or [size=40pt]know[/size] somewhere in England to speak properly? Well, I am a noble and there isn't equality on earth. I will keep silent and not comment on this any further as a noble should. It is obvious you want to act your class and pick an e-fight.

Cabinbiscuit:
No offense OP but you are dull.

"I have been trying your number since I left Lagos and
I WAS LIKE OK LET ME CALL YOUR YOUNGER
BROTHER TO CONFIRM.."

Its not "I was like OK let me call your younger brother to confirm it" as you put it. RATHER IT'S:

I was like, "OK. let me call your younger brother to confirm"
And it's not bad English as you wrongly put it.

Keenysbojan:
I have been wondering why Nigerian students always use the word 'i was like ok' in every of their saying... I found it difficult to believe that 'i was like ok' is a correct short sentence, in English...

because I have sat down and think about this all over and over and over,and through research I found that there is no short sentence in English, like 'i was like ok'.. but some Nigerians are so terrible when it comes to the aspects of speaking or writing standard English...

A student of unilorin came to meet my big bro at home,and he said I have been trying your number since I left Lagos and I WAS LIKE OK LET ME CALL YOUR YOUNGER BROTHER TO CONFIRM..

immediately,I felt the 'spirit of bad English' in what he said above... since then I have been searching,I have been asking those who are highly educated and those who study English in universities.. if the use of I WAS LIKE OK is good to speak..

to nairelanders do any of you have anything to say about this topic... share your own points of view and let some 'BAD English speaker(s)' learn from you.. thanks

Yours Faithfully
k e e n y s b o j a n

hoyinkansola:
;Dgeez.. i was like..i'm really guilty of dis sentence..

frustratedman:
E NO GO BETTER FOR GOD WICKED THING THAT MADE ME LOOSE ALL I HAD

saintneo:



"I was like ok" is correct in a descriptive sentence. "I was like........", "ok........"description of the action carried out.

BTW this is not a Nigerian invention, I think it is American. The first time I heard was in the Avatar: The Last Airbender series, usually used by Sokka the non-bender from the southerrn water tribe.