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Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Cti28(m): 1:34pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
Giftlove11:Yours is bettel, I just fell off from a bike |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by darams4all(m): 1:46pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
The last time I checked am older than you by how many years? |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Cti28(m): 1:46pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
With what number of years am I older than you. |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by ajl: 2:00pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
What's the age difference between you and I? |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Zacks43: 2:05pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
Znation: Your answer is....What is our age difference |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Prettygirl200(f): 2:05pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
Znation:What's our age difference? |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by CoronaVirusPro: 2:08pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
What’s our age difference? |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by LongEraser: 2:17pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
A literal interpretation of the pidgin expression in English should be: how many years advantage do I have over you? |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by RoyalDiadems: 2:28pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
Znation: By what number of years am I older than you? Or By how many years am I older than you? 2 Likes |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by musicwriter(m): 2:45pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
Znation: @bold Remember it's English language that you want to translate to, so it must be done the way English people would say it, unless we have a "Nigerian English" equivalence. "What's our age difference" is the right answer because it's the closest way a white man would say "how many years I take senior you?" Having said that, what really interest me is your concern in bold. Your concern is very legitimate as an African because a white man's language shouldn't have the power to cause us Africans to defer our method of creating meaning to the way white people do the same thing. We should be able to create meaning in our minds according to what meaning means to us. When we don't do that, we spit on our intellect and hands off all responsibility of using our own minds to think our own thoughts ORGANICALLY as a free human being should do. The result is that when we want to learn anything, we run to the white man's language. When we need knowledge, we run to Western education. When we need a god, we run to the white man's god. We're still not truly independent in Africa because we're not in control of the moment of word creation. The moment of thought and word creation is where authority lies. Whoever controls that moment, controls everything. We're not in control of the meanings in our head!! Example; as you read this, white people are literally controlling the way you understand what I am saying here. In real time!! This lies at the root of our dependency on white people to solve our problems after many years of so called independence. We're locked down!! |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Boyekunle7319: 3:17pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
I think it should be interpreted as 'I'm older than you with how many years?' Znation: |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Iamnotfearyou: 3:38pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
How Many Years I Take Senior You? HOW OLD ARE MY TO YOU |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by educarimo: 3:50pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
pidgin expression is quite different from good English. i would like you to still consider it this way: Do you know how many years i have spent on earth before you? or how long i was born before you? |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Aaay: 4:24pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
Use google pidgin |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by osmobil5(m): 4:57pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
emorse:How? |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Tryon4(m): 5:55pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
Znation: What is our age difference? |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by adeyemioyeleke(m): 6:06pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
Was our age difference |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Stanley1155: 6:07pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
What is our age difference. |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by emorse(m): 6:08pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
osmobil5:Na where my power reach for now be this.
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Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Depsalmist11(m): 6:33pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
How old am i to you? |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Hartugrin27(m): 6:36pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
deavicky: The English big like banky w head |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Otitijerome(m): 7:55pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
What is our age difference? |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Chuksyno(m): 8:26pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
Don't you know how older am I than you? |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by VirileNelly2420: 9:17pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
Znation:U know how many years gap I gave you? |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by VirileNelly2420: 9:19pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
jefdr001:You know how many years gap I gave you? |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Thebigheart: 9:20pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
What's our age difference |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Olabode211: 9:43pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
I aged you for how many year? as simple as it is. |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Kimiso(m): 10:42pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
Znation:how much older am i to you |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Deiks: 11:27pm On Apr 13, 2022 |
What's our age difference |
Re: Who Can Help Me In Translating This Pidgin English To Correct English? by Delary: 12:06am On Apr 14, 2022 |
Simply put: What is our age difference? |
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