I was reading about d american history and just discoverd that america was colonised by england.
Yes, england thought Usa how to read and write. Usa did nt learn fully.At a point they stopped learning .They called their mistakes AMERICAN ENGLISH.
E.g
metre....meter
lenght...length
centre...center

why cant we INSIST on pidgen english.write a PIDGIN dictionary and be proud of pidgin language.

it will start from you, first start developing a pidgin dictionary, oh boy hunger go catch you

No, they didn't stop learning, and they didn't learn for the most part. The United States began with the settling of native British people in Virginia, that is how English came to be their language, then they gradually decided that they didn't like the way England used tules in the language and changed it on purpose. As immigrants from non-English speaking parts of Europe arrived or were incorporated from their own colonies, of course they had to learn English, but they also influenced the language which is why there are a lot of words in American English that you will only find in theirs.

Pidgin English ins't 'legalised' simply because people are more interested in preserving their own languages instead of a corruption of someone else's, but I understand what you mean by making pidgin the standard form of English in Nigeria. The problem is that half of the reason why English is valued in Nigeria (apart from acting as a lingua franca) is because of the opportunity to be able to communicate with the wider world who are usually going to speak English as a way of communicating with foreigners.

@ ezeagu i understand u
At least, USA were proud of the changes(whether by mistake or external settlement or delibrate)
so they legalised it.

In nigeria, do we like english .or do we just accept it.
. The general spoken english in nigeria is pidgin.
Go to market, taxes, bus, villages, etc .i throw away english and speak pidgin before am understood.

AMERICANS NOTICED THIS AND LEGALISED THEIR LANGUAGE.

NIGERIA IS STILL FORCING ENGLISH ON US.

It depends where you go. Pidgin English is mostly used in the major cities where there is more diversity, but in most public places the native language comes first and then pidgin if the person is foreign. We have to ask how pidgin English will help those who will encounter a foreigner from the West for example. it would be just another African language they can't understand to them.

Ezeagu, there u go

so we should consider foreign communication ist ahead of ourself.

Did the united state consider that ist??

Dat the problem with nigeria, we arent proud of ourself. We consider others ahead of ourself. We make shoes and tag it made in italy.

Like u rightly said, d most spoken language in nigeria is our native language. Legalising it would cause problem since they are over 50 languages.
So lets go 4 d one that is mostly used to communicate on the street to our self.

Pidgin English is what it is, an English based creole. It's not African, just African influenced. The whole point of using a lingua franca is to communicate with the wider world, not because it's "ours". Pidgin isn't even uniquely Nigerian, most of it was developed in the Americas. Most people are more proud of the language their ancestors spoke made up with words that were entirely or mostly formed them. English is used to communicate with foreigners and foreigners can't understand pidgin and probably won't learn.

Pidgin doesn't need to be a lingua france, English already does that and then serves as a bridge with the wider world (or isn't that what people who are for English languages claim?). I understand preserving pidgin as part of the modern West frican cultural heritage, but it doesn't have to come in the way of the economy or ancestral heritage.