nduchucks:


You can redeem yourself by apologizing for your tribalistic and racist post and engage me properly. I'm sure you are capable of being gracious enough to admit that your racist, tribalistic, and prejudicial post was unwarranted.

Let's see how mature you are.

Obi1kenobi:


I'm an equal opportunity offender. I'm Igbo and I've vilified Igbos more than any other group here by far as anyone familiar with my posting history knows and many of them always call me "afonjs". So I'm curious to know what is "racist" about anything I've said about the North. Pointing out their shortcomings in education and human capacity development is "racist"?

sexybbstar:
I believe these teachers are brilliant but they find it hard to express themselves in English language. Maybe vernacular should be adopted. No be by force to teach with English language... Most of them have good things to offer but to express themselves is the main issue.

Obi1kenobi:


You must have serious comprehension problems. Adapting our languages for educational instruction is something anyone will fully support and I have no problem with that and stated so. I'm referring to the current status of our native languages which cannot perform such a function. Hence, the current importance of English as the language of instruction and hence the absurdity of employing teachers who are incompetent in basic English.

aribisala0:

Rubbish. What is "Native" about our language what a stupid thing to say.
Why not find out what has happened elsewhere instead of granstanding self indulgently.
The entire bible was translated into many Nigerian languages without "adapting" them. What is "adapting"? please stop talking nonsense and educate yourself about what has happened with Welsh ,With Hindi,With Maori with Kiwswahili and so on.

On this thread we are referring to the Hausa language which is good and ready to go once a decision is made.

Obi1kenobi:


Said without a shred of self-awareness. Grandstanding without any substance is exactly what you're doing here. You jumped in here deluding yourself you're making some elusive point and misinterpreting simple comments.
Let me repeat it again hoping it will percolate through this time: I have zero problems with using our languages for instruction. Zero. None. Nada. Zilch. But until we develop such a curriculum, it's absolutely daft to be spewing some warped Afrocentrist, delusional, bullshiiit rationalizations in defence of those who cannot properly and articulately communicate in our official language of learning, English.

And no, neither Hausa nor any of the other Nigerian languages are not "ready to go". Nevermind advanced University work, if I asked the average Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba man on the street to define Newton's first law of motion (SS1 work) which they know in English, the majority will be stuttering incoherent crap. There will have to be wide consultations and conferences by linguists to standardize the lexicon and basically bring the languages up to date with what is expected in a formal learning setting.

aribisala0:

In your head you are smart ?
If you ask the average Human being on earth in any language about Newton's law of motion they will not know
That is not relevant to the point being made

Newton, by the way, did not write in his native English. He wrote mainly in Greek and Latin. His signature work
Principia Mathematica was in Latin
This and many other facts elude you because you have no clue about what is involved but feel driven to talk when in reality you are vacant and vacuous

There is nothing so special about English that our own languages lack.
You really are out of your depth here. Breezy brainless bombast is a shabby ersatz for anything of substance.
Our languages are more than ready to go.

Obi1kenobi:

I was implying the average Nigeria who can express it in English cannot do so in their mother tongue. Because, representing simple SS1 level science concepts like inertia, force, momentum, vectorial representations etc in their mother-tongue would be highly tasking. But nice worthless try at a diversion.


A completely irrelevant point to anything I stated. Your train of though is all over the place.



Other than a vastly smaller lexicon which makes the expression of several concepts in a formal learning setting highly tasking.
When you spend half your comments insulting my intelligence, all you do is expose your intellectual insecurities. Such a phony bum and charlatan.

aribisala0:


Everything you are saying is just verbigeration.
If you want to say soething say it don't "imply" it. You failed woefully to communicate anything of moment coherently.
You cannot even use the English language properly and are clueless about prosody.
The issue here is not complex or complicated at all.We are good and ready to start educating our children in their own language.
Those who slavishly,like you insist that there will never be a good time are mistaken. Your understanding of English is average,if that.Your labouured overcompensation is truly amusing. "phony bum" . Please keep it real and natural.

Those who slavishly,like you insist that there will never be a good time are mistaken.

Obi1kenobi:


More projections of your worthless intellectual esteem. The bolded is the funniest projection of all. Anyone reading both our comments can see who the "overcompensating" cretin is, trotting out inapt, gratuitous verbiage about "verbigeration" and "prosody" and constantly insulting and belittling the other's intelligence. As I said, a totally phony charlatan.



Are you being deliberately obtuse as a provocation or are you actually this witless? When did I ever utter anything like the nonsensical twaddle you just claimed above?

aribisala0:

Our language is good enough for use in educating our children.

I would expect YOU to celebrate such a development since your English is weak....

It is "emboldened" ,by the way, not "bolded" that is a solecism

Obi1kenobi:


https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bold
On the contrary, Mr Charlatan, the word "bolded" is perfectly acceptable in urban English usage as a verb in a world of "Face-Timed" or "Whatsapped". English being the wonderfully dynamic language it is, it's very easy to verb a noun in regular colloquial speech. Do some research next time before embarrassing yourself trying to be a smart-arse.

hidhrhis:
d guy used hausa to spell it...if u notice all dis hausas including my healthy president buhari they always pronounce p as f i dont know whatz wrong with their tongue

aribisala0:


And Igbos that say Dilector or Calabar that say Yunction or Yoruba that say Shiar? Or Ijaw that say Zump into the water

hidhrhis:

all tribes have problem with d lanuage
why?
it is not our language but out of all d prominent tribes in nigeria hausa is d worst in terms of speaking english and writing it down

Which European nation is the best for speaking Hausa and writing it down

aribisala0:
That is your opinion.
Anyhow even if it were true maybe it indicates that they are those who reject cultural enslavement the most Why is being the best in English a good thing if not for colo mentality?
Which European nation is the best for speaking Hausa and writing it down

hidhrhis:

aribisala0:
Hausa is also an official language in Nigeria.The fact that you are ignorant of this changes nothing.
Nigeria has 4 official languages named in the constitution

There is alot on this subject that you still have to learn from within and outside Nigeria,contemporary and historical, A lot......

hidhrhis:

i know we have four official language but go and check d meaning of official language very well before u quote me...wen u understand d meaning u can quote me....use google to be very fast

aribisala0:
Go and check the meaning of idiot.
Then look in the closest mirror and then check the meaning again
Then come let us discuss

hidhrhis:

have checked d mirror and i realised im not an idiot and u are d biggest fool ever aribisala abi wetin be ur name how can u tell someone to check d mirror in d evening it shows charcoal has being packed in ur brain u cant think clearly
we are just trying to learn and gain one or two things from each other by sharing view on what we think abt d topic but instead u indirectly called me an idiot i wont exchange vulgar words with u

aribisala0:

Gain one or two things from a bigot like you? There is no prospect of profitable intellectual commerce with a simian clod.
Check Mirror in the evening? It is not evening where I am now but even if it was how is that relevant.

hidhrhis:

thatz how u destroy ur future with ur stupid pride....u live fake life dont u know d meaning of ur name (aribisala) u are always running about for help but u are living fake life i hope u run to mr for help in the future as ur name implies were....

aribisala0:

Stupid pride
Says the clod calling Hausas "LAZY"
you believe ignorantly you are better than they are but the reality is anything but...........

hidhrhis:


it seemsmy mother has braim disorder maybe she fell down wem she was very young so u use her head to knack ground if not she will just find something else to do

hidhrhis:

my mother is a lunatic .she will die coughing

UncleSnr:
If you don't know where the rain started to beat you, you can't know where you dried.