erico2k2:
OK I want to write a simple pidgin English,Plz lagosians we sabi re write it in simple English


*Akpos abeg wetin dey, arrange me H*,if bross arrange me I go square you back*.
This should be very simple.

Rexia:

Akpos,is there anything? Borrow me money and if boss pay me my money I will pay your money back.I'm not Nigerian by the way

erico2k2:

u tried but U missed the ammount I want to borrow from Akpos

Rexia:

I'm guessing the money is 100naira

Rexia:

Akpos,is there anything? Borrow me money and if boss pay me my money I will pay your money back.I'm not Nigerian by the way

erico2k2:

yes

Sinistami:




the pidgin spoken was just pure easy south south pidgin it baffles me how lagosians couldnt decipher it.

erico2k2:

Lagos got thier own slangs.warri , sapele speak same .Benin almost similar .
But waffi and Saffi got it going wen it comes to broken English .

Sinistami:



LOL iam from Yenagoa and really I love Safi an Wafi pidgin the accent mostly. but there is nothing a Wafi speaker will say DAT a person DAT speaks Yeniz will not understand. same with PH pidgin.

erico2k2:

Aha there is.trust me on this one . When it is formulated within the 1st and 2nd month you might miss it untill it is spoken more openly .
Ie the term * lock up* . Lol

Sinistami:


well if you put it dat way. its vice versa i have a wafarian friend when he first moved into yenagoa he couldnt understand many of our slangs like once i said. "Abobi wida dah ur Banny na wetin make she de kari bodi go sky like dat. abi na cuz say we tok say she make wella." And he was like " Na Wusai dat ur pidgin de for de komot so?" and I just laughed like "Na Yeniz oh"

Rexia:

Hahaha that's funny But wait a minute,did u just say wusai? I thought wusai was not Nigerian pidgin.Wusai is Cameroon pidgin isn't it?

Springz:
Pidgin is all about Delta and Edo state.
The pidgin in Lagos is Yoruba infused as for Ibadan, I am sure that is a mistake on your part cos they don't speak pidgin in Ibadan.
Yenagoa and PH yeah they can be on the list.

Sinistami:

I hate when people downgrade Yenagoa and PH pidgin.

Sinistami:
OK Yenagoa isn't DAT populated I can see the reason for DAT. As for PH don't go near the ikwere dominated areas you won't hear much pidgin there but in places like Borokiri. Marinebase etc. you'd love it. As for Lagos its just Ajegunle and that's just because many Nigerdeltans settled there. people from Edo Delta Bayelsa etc.

Rexia:

Some people say dat when Cameroonians speak pidgin they sound like waffi and ijaw people.Is it true? Cause I don't find it to be so.

Sinistami:

Dunno but they could be a link maybe. there are many ijaw people in Cameroon from Bayelsa so maybe there's a link. And for one there's a place named Cameroon camp in Yenagoa. a place to house the many displaced Nigerians who were affected by the bakassi crisis. They speak a lot of Camtok mixed with Naija pidgin there.

Rexia:

Are you serious? I never knew that.So it means dat if I go there and speak my pidgin they would understand?

Sinistami:


For the most part yes, but only in Cameroon camp. And the Cameroon camp pidgin is even becoming another Pidgin dialect on its own.

Rexia:

Wow! Dat is interesting.How is it becoming a pidgin dialect on it's own?

Ekinematics:


It's a funny list. Take PH to number 1, because no city in Naija has more pidgin English speakers than PH. Warri just have their own accent that's all. Pidgin speakers in PH as compared 2 Warri is like 3:1.

gerg:
The length and breadth of Edo and Delta Speak good pidgin though some places speak better pidgin than others. but I think there are some places at the Northern part of Edo that might not be so good in Pidgin but all the part of Delta flow good in pidgin including the rural parts.

Sinistami:

Dunno but they could be a link maybe. there are many ijaw people in Cameroon from Bayelsa so maybe there's a link. And for one there's a place named Cameroon camp in Yenagoa. a place to house the many displaced Nigerians who were affected by the bakassi crisis. They speak a lot of Camtok mixed with Naija pidgin there.

ORGUST:


It's very possible. Nigerians that fled from the civil war Nationalized there. Mind you,Nigeria isn't the only country where pidgin is spoken. Even far away in Jamaica,the people there speak pidgin aside patois.

UnknownT:
lol.... Meigwo is an urhobo greeting (should mean "I'm on my knees", Vrendo is the reply. Then Mavo is like How are you