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| Re: A Harsh Take On Locally-Trained Nigerians by AjanleKoko: 1:43pm On Jun 14, 2013 |
Dis Guy: Interestingly the NSE since the time of Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke has been largely populated by returnees. Some speak with an accent, others do not. Funny enough, neither Ndi Okereke, Oscar Onyema (their current CEO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, or Segun Aganga speaks with a foreign accent. they're returnees as well. Well sha, maybe because they are in 'Gurment', and don't want to get on the bad side of Naija politicians  |
| Re: A Harsh Take On Locally-Trained Nigerians by AjanleKoko: 1:59pm On Jun 14, 2013 |
biolabee: Don't sweat it bro.. Frankly I enjoy the issues he raise cos they are real life stuff More troublesome generalizations: If The Big Bang Theory was a true story, and the guys were all Nigerians: 1. Penny would date Sheldon, Leonard, Wolowitz, and Kuthrapali, most likely all together. After all she is only a waitress .2. Sheldon's friends would have killed him way before Season 1 was over. I can just see the headlines in the Sun or PM News 'Brilliant Physicist beaten to death by friends over Thai food  'If you guys can think of any others, do let me know. I gbadun that show |
| Re: A Harsh Take On Locally-Trained Nigerians by biolabee(m): 3:13pm On Jun 14, 2013 |
Lovely series Howard will be a mama's boy who will not be able to impregnate his wife without lettin his mama know Sheldon's girl buddy will be the chestless nerd who comes first in class and does not marry as she imtimidates every male she comes across AjanleKoko: |
| Re: A Harsh Take On Locally-Trained Nigerians by coogar: 5:08pm On Jun 14, 2013 |
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| Re: A Harsh Take On Locally-Trained Nigerians by tpia5: 5:52pm On Jun 14, 2013 |
AjanleKoko: Ironic that it's our 'well-trained' foreign Naijas that are showing skin here And who are these foreign trained nigerians? Are they responsible for your low self esteem? |
| Re: A Harsh Take On Locally-Trained Nigerians by AjanleKoko: 6:23pm On Jun 14, 2013 |
tpia@: No Ma'am. You are |
| Re: A Harsh Take On Locally-Trained Nigerians by tpia5: 8:18pm On Jun 14, 2013 |
You think you're funny, hence all the smilies? |
| Re: A Harsh Take On Locally-Trained Nigerians by Wallie(m): 8:33pm On Jun 14, 2013 |
1. People who “form” (make up accents) are usually only able to fool local people. 2. A Nigerian 1 or 2 years off the boat trying to speak with an American accent will not be understood by Americans. 3. Most people typically code-switch (change accents depending on who they're talking to). Unconsciously, people tend to speak like people around them. I have a 10 year old cousin that went to Nigeria for the first time for about 1 year and when she came back, her English was 100% straight out of Naija! 4. Excitement typically brings out a different accent in people that speak more than one language. 5. Any Nigerian that left Nigeria at a relatively young age to a foreign country will develop an accent. 6. At times, people with accent use it to impress people but that's just like saying a beautiful woman is using her beauty to impress people – she can’t help it if one is impressed by her beauty for that’s who she is. You can’t ask someone who speaks with an accent to change just because people might be impressed except if the accent becomes undesirable. Lastly, you should use whatever arsenal in your “selling point” to your advantage – even D’Prince knows that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-91CoDKUOA Off-topic: I'm actually feeling a lot of Naija songs these days unlike Naija movies! 1 Like |
| Re: A Harsh Take On Locally-Trained Nigerians by lockedOut: 7:59pm On Jun 16, 2013 |
Dis Guy: Lol, I really don't know Ibukun Adebayo to determine weather he was brought up in Nigeria or not. Maybe I did not pass my message across well enough. When AOPs talk on radio I believe their first responsibility is to their audience. This accent thing is not local to Lagos alone, listen to some privately owned radio stations in other states and you will find this true as well. A friend that works as one also has the accent while on radio and I know very well he has never been to Togo so where is the accent coming from? What I am trying to say is, why should anyone who has never had any reason to go outside of Nigeria have a foreign accent? |
| Re: A Harsh Take On Locally-Trained Nigerians by lockedOut: 8:02pm On Jun 16, 2013 |
Maybe I did not understand your points, maybe if you had written them in Yoruba i would have understood ....AjanleKoko: |
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