Its not only "i was like ok".there are more like "and everything".the feminine gender abuse these phrases a lot. U can hear them use them more than 5 time in a 20 seconds conversation.

spotit:
Now, you have spoken as the fool that you are. Tune to BBC country/traditional radio/tv talkshows and listen to sound speech from discussants(they use these phrases even in formal speech). I have studied and lived/worked in England since only-god-knows and I have lived with Americans and Aussies, Mr Iambetter Thanyou. Don't pontificate using your creek grammar as your beacon. Who gave you noble? I bet I can sell you the Brooklyn Bridge if you're pleased by my wicked metaphoricals. You and who to efight? I'll just slap out the gray matter from your skull. Cheeky tool.

Ohh..Big Talk. I'm shaking.

Childishly quick to throw tantrums and call people names. Then try to create sentences with big words for notice' sake. Frankly, I don't care if you rummaged with Silverbacks in DRC.

Karleb:
There is nothing wrong with that phrase, it's just that it is no formal English.

You are absolutely wrong.That an expressn is informal does not mean it shld break d rules of grammer.

I( pronoun) was( verb) like(preposition)

What sort of expression is that?

D unfortunate thg is dt native british and american pple also use.If u think all native speakers speak good english dn u are wrong.I have heard native speakers 'tabon' several times.

dabriggs:


Ohh..Big Talk. I'm shaking. I don't care if you rummaged with Silverbacks in DRC.

don't quote me turd...get back in your creeks.

spotit:
don't quote me turd...get back in your creeks.

Ohhh..everyone, he knows the words ''turd'' and ''creeks''.

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

see who is complaining about english like its his mother tongue. I do not like its use either but am not offended by it in any way. By the way. Even your own use of english is wrong. It is 'find' and not 'found' and 'thought' not 'think'.

dabriggs:


Ohhh..everyone, he knows the words ''turd'' and ''creeks''.

don't feel inferior and defeated yet, i know a lot more to grind you to dust.

spotit:
don't feel inferior and defeated yet, i know a lot more to grind you to dust.

Oh really. umm..Ok.

I guess your only accomplishment is winning e-fights with ''I will do this'', ''I will do that'' and name calling.

For someone who thinks because one is British or Australian, however he speaks English must invariably be the proper and correct way, why bother with you.

Ok you win this one. This is just to help you. Consider it a consolation prize.

spotit:
don't feel inferior and defeated yet, i know a lot more to grind you to dust.

I cant wait to be ground to dust over the internet.

dabriggs:


Oh really. umm..Ok.

foöl, i already told you to feck off, didn't i?

I went to absu cafe to eat rice and moimoi I now saw dat d hv salad " I was like ok " let me eat rice and salad.......






wink;;;''''.

solomonsojay:


SIr OP.
With all humility, I don't quite understand why you started this thread sef!

You said and I quote "immediately,I felt the
"spirit of bad English' in what he said above". If your main reason was to question why most Nigerian students hardly speak correct english, then you sure have a big problem with presentation which equally portray your poor english language skills.

If you don't mind sir, I will gladly support my arguments with a few salient points.

1. There is NOTHING like GOOD or BAD English like you said in the parted I quoted earlier.
Its either its CORRECT or INCORRECT English.

2. English has NO spirit hence, bad english spirit can not be in a statment. 'also quoting from your statement'. Am sure u just wanted to say u weren't too sure if that clause was ok for the intended purpose in which it was used.

3. Seeing all the flaws in your write up and studying various poorly placed patterns in your writing skills, I SAY WITH ALL HUMILITY...you DO NOT have the intellectual capacity to dabble into a topic such as this which tries to invalidate the proficiency of somone's use of a language such as the western english.

I rest my case.
but knowing that there is not one who is perfect...I STAND TO BE "WISELY" CORRECTED.

your errors are much worse than the poster's own, because of your ignorance.
The poster did try to create awareness about the wrong use of english language with sincere intentions bt u took hold of the situation by disseminating misconceptions of grammar.
it might interest you to know that, the use of 'sure' as an adjunct is incorrect.
I am nt sure if u understood the real concept of concord, because, you would have known the right tenses of 'portray' to use if u did.
There is indeed something like good or bad english, jst because u have ineffective knowledge of words and their real meanings, does not delineate that u have to rebuff them.
in the parted I quoted, using a verb or an adjective as a noun is a grave offence, bro.
The last time I checked, there was no word like statment, maybe you meant to type statement
write up is nt an open compound word when it is a noun bt a hyphenated one, write-up.
finally, you should have sticked to the proverb that says: he who has no sin should cast the first stone, instead of being absolutely mean by writing him off with your repellent and detestable post.

chenypat:
see who is complaining about english like its his mother tongue. I do not like its use either but am not offended by it in any way. By the way. Even your own use of english is wrong. It is 'find' and not 'found' and 'thought' not 'think'.

bros shebi I don beg una for my blunders nau...it was a mistake...I wanted to correct myself but naireland did not allow me to do so...

Even for England there are som people wey no fit speak correct English... dat is why dey hav another language wey demcall GARAGE OR GAREGE sha..dnt knw d correct spelling... even if my write up is somhw bad,at least I made points... if some of you believe(s) that 'i was like ok' is correct then you are nothing but an empty chezi

olin88:
I went to absu cafe to eat rice and moimoi I now saw dat d hv salad " I was like ok " let me eat rice and salad.......






wink;;;''''.

The use of I now especially with past tense is wrong. []Then[/b] should be appropriate or you can omit it i.e I went to absu cafe to eat rice and moimoi but they only had salad, so, I decided to eat rice and salad.

thread makinq sense since 1914.....lol when i saw the thread "i was like" OMG...this is goinq to be funny...

ERCROSS:




Who cares ....

Did u quote and mentioned words here?

Those who live in glass house shouldn't throw stone.

solomonsojay:


SIr OP.
With all humility, I don't quite understand why you started this thread sef!

You said and I quote "immediately,I felt the
"spirit of bad English' in what he said above". If your main reason was to question why most Nigerian students hardly speak correct english, then you sure have a big problem with presentation which equally portray your poor english language skills.

If you don't mind sir, I will gladly support my arguments with a few salient points.

1. There is NOTHING like GOOD or BAD English like you said in the parted I quoted earlier.
Its either its CORRECT or INCORRECT English.

2. English has NO spirit hence, bad english spirit can not be in a statment. 'also quoting from your statement'. Am sure u just wanted to say u weren't too sure if that clause was ok for the intended purpose in which it was used.

3. Seeing all the flaws in your write up and studying various poorly placed patterns in your writing skills, I SAY WITH ALL HUMILITY...you DO NOT have the intellectual capacity to dabble into a topic such as this which tries to invalidate the proficiency of somone's use of a language such as the western english.

I rest my case.
but knowing that there is not one who is perfect...I STAND TO BE "WISELY" CORRECTED.

You are very ignorant of what tyou are saying.
=
Who said English can't be bad?
Respecting the use of 'spirit of english' it is apt there. Your interpretation of it as a clanger when you said that English has no spirit was gross. So OP was right with that usage. It's analogous to saying ' in the spirit of oneness'. Do you now say that oneness has no spirit?
=
I could deduce that you have got just a smattering of the language hence should not throw stones since you live in a glass house.
Cheers.

MRAbudant:

What about yours? You started it with 'and' which is considered wrong by some grammarians.
There is nothing wrong in starting a paragraph with 'because', stop propagating false rules of Grammar.

Starting a paragraph with because is right? hope you haven't graduated yet?

visasubagent:


You are very ignorant of what tyou are saying.
=
Who said English can't be bad?
Respecting the use of 'spirit of english' it is apt there. Your interpretation of it as a clanger when you said that English has no spirit was gross. So OP was right with that usage. It's analogous to saying ' in the spirit of oneness'. Do you now say that oneness has no spirit?
=
I could deduce that you have got just a smattering of the language hence should not throw stones since you live in a glass house.
Cheers.

MRAbudant:

your errors are much worse than the poster's own, because of your ignorance.
The poster did try to create awareness about the wrong use of english language with sincere intentions bt u took hold of the situation by disseminating misconceptions of grammar.
it might interest you to know that, the use of 'sure' as an adjunct is incorrect.
I am nt sure if u understood the real concept of concord, because, you would have known the right tenses of 'portray' to use if u did.
There is indeed something like good or bad english, jst because u have ineffective knowledge of words and their real meanings, does not delineate that u have to rebuff them.
in the parted I quoted, using a verb or an adjective as a noun is a grave offence, bro.
The last time I checked, there was no word like statment, maybe you meant to type statement
write up is nt an open compound word when it is a noun bt a hyphenated one, write-up.
finally, you should have sticked to the proverb that says: he who has no sin should cast the first stone, instead of being absolutely mean by writing him off with your repellent and detestable post.

visasubagent:


You are very ignorant of what tyou are saying.
=
Who said English can't be bad?
Respecting the use of 'spirit of english' it is apt there. Your interpretation of it as a clanger when you said that English has no spirit was gross. So OP was right with that usage. It's analogous to saying ' in the spirit of oneness'. Do you now say that oneness has no spirit?
=
I could deduce that you have got just a smattering of the language hence should not throw stones since you live in a glass house.
Cheers.

1st of all, its was a humble correction from me to the op.
It is very funny how these secondary school pupil tries to proof they are wise, and all they end up doing is a display of outright foolishness.
(learners)
When I earlier said"I stand to be wisely corrected". I didn't expect to see this monkwaitical display of foolishness. Well, its a forum afterall, where the foolish ones are also allowed a chance to show just how stupid they are, so people can truly know that common sense is not common.
U can't just open a dico n hope to suddenly know the rudiments of english, so you can proof others wrong when infact you have no concept of the subject matter, its something that must have been cultivated right from childhood.
Pls, I STAND TO BE WISELY CORRECTED...NO MORE SHOW OF FOOLISHNESS!

I was like ok

@ visasubagent
@ MRAbudant
I will say this with all humility, don't just assume you know anything expect otherwise you are dame sure you can go the distance,
Every smart person knows what to say @ every points in time but ONLY a WISE person know when to say it or when to keep silent.
Its obvious from your monkwaitic display while trying to show u are knowledgeable enough to take a subject that less than 5% of nigerians can bold use effectively, what a cray move!
Pls stick what those things you know and stop quoting past and present tense when is comes to english language skills...its not secondary school here.
This is SPARTA...L:pL...

solomonsojay:


1st of all, its was a humble correction from me to the op.
It is very funny how these secondary school pupil tries to proof they are wise, and all they end up doing is a display of outright foolishness.
(learners)
When I earlier said"I stand to be wisely corrected". I didn't expect to see this monkwaitical display of foolishness. Well, its a forum afterall, where the foolish ones are also allowed a chance to show just how stupid they are, so people can truly know that common sense is not common.
U can't just open a dico n hope to suddenly know the rudiments of english, so you can proof others wrong when infact you have no concept of the subject matter, its something that must have been cultivated right from childhood.
Pls, I STAND TO BE WISELY CORRECTED...NO MORE SHOW OF FOOLISHNESS!

Utilizing wrong and non-existent wording in order to be considered learned is pure evidence of abuse of grammar, and the handiwork of obtuse beings.

You claim to know the basics of english, yet, your post is highly awash with heart-rending, mammoth, and obnoxious bloopers.


your repugnant situation is a case of an uncultivated creature, trying too hard to keep up with the joneses, and saw internet as the only hope to redeem himself.

MEILYN:
You tried to be intelligent but you failed woefully. Should in case, in case of incasity etc are wrong, I agree, but "I was like, ok" is no way a tautology.

I said " I was like ok" is incorrect, I never said it's referred to as tautology

As much as I'm tempted to discuss this topic, I won't.

Let someone do an EXTENSIVE study in the field of paralinguistics. Then decide if it's correct or not.

#Peace

MRAbudant:


Utilizing wrong and non-existent wording in order to be considered learned is pure evidence of abuse of grammar, and the handiwork of obtuse beings.

You claim to know the basics of english, yet, your post is highly awash with heart-rending, mammoth, and obnoxious bloopers.


your repugnant situation is a case of an uncultivated creature, trying too hard to keep up with the joneses, and saw internet as the only hope to redeem himself.

All these vocabs...na wa o. The guy snatch your wife ni?

NifemiOlu:


All these vocabs...na wa o. The guy snatch your wife ni?

hehehe! Far from that, but it pains me a lot seeing people belittling others' effort in respect of their atrocious ego.

Keenysbojan:
I have apologize to all nairalanders for my blunders,yet some of you did not stop quoting my blunders.... with the sincere heart,I didn't know I made those blunders..it was when some of you started quoting my blunders,it was then I knew 'ooh gosh,wat da Bleep mistakes',but nairaland did not allow me to make my corrections anymore.... please,I dey prostrate ooo mak una no vex for my blunders



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

Emmm... apologized.

MRAbudant:


hehehe! Far from that, but it pains me a lot seeing people belittling others' effort in respect of their atrocious ego.

Er, Nairaland. When it comes grammar things, I just walk away now. Last week, a guy posted "Our kids watch indecency..." So another guy wanted to correct him and said it should be "Our kids watches..." He argued that since kids still watch porn, the verb should be 'watches'. I tried correcting him (concord rules), he started insulting my intelligence. So I just left the fool to be.
So it's very common for people to belittle one's efforts here.

spotit:
foöl, i already told you to feck off, didn't i?

No fool. You have been going on and on in rants and raves about how you will crush me into dust with your keyboard bazooka......ha ha ha ha ha ha. Besides, you seem like a good sport and you make me laugh.

mmmm

I was like ok... is not just a standard Eng but a Nig Eng. And for it to b a Nig Eng, den dir is notng wrong with it. If u can't join Nigerains,den get out caus u can't change us...