₦airaland Forum

Some people are just daft.

akwesenana:
From the producer of "You can't use Wikipedia for your company's report abi. Its the same reason why you can't do so that makes me reject the spurious source with many unsubstantiated claims and weak references."

What I said there is backed by multiple credible sources. Mumu

akwesenana:
Actually, he references wiki regularly, he even did that in an argument with you.

Yes, I cited it when what's stated on Wikipedia is corroborated by other credible sources. Read that again carefully. I knew someone would bring this up.

No go find work and be going through all my old posts here.

This night go be like war for Chelsea. I no go even watch the match. I've had enough in Boli's hands

I made a post containing a well-known fact about a popular figure in the science world, and dem want write a new history for Einstein overnight.

Just like that? Nigerians are English people, this is what they're saying here. English people wey no sabi speak the language correctly. What a joke

Dem don talk say Nigerians are English people. Lols, the people that can't speak and write in English correctly dey claim the language of natives of England, lols

BlueRayDicks:
Since Wikipedia is the issue, well here is another link that's not wikipedia quoting the same news about Albert Einstein's regret

https://www.jta.org/archive/einstein-sorry-he-cant-speak-yiddish-with-greater-fluency

The man is a Jew through and through.

Using his works which were published in German to knock Nigerians who are publishing their works in English language is a very fooolish thing to do.

What new thing did you say now that I've not posted already. Einstein had two native languages at least: German, the language native to his birthplace, and Yiddish, the language from his ethnic background that he rarely used.

English has become the native language of Nigerians abi? Lols, very funny. Nigerians are English people then

Everyone on my neck because I called German Einstein‘s native language or mother tongue. Nairaland na one funny place. Something that's common knowledge all over the net

GloriousGbola:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1922_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Einstein,_Albert



do you understand what this is - scientist - this is just one link from the webpage
are you sure you know what RESEARCH means?

The same source you brought used German as his native language because it's the language of his birthplace, stated in your source. You've not proven that Einstein didn't speak German as his native language.

You can't even prove it. The best you can do is to bring a Wikipedia post on what native language means, instead of using a standard dictionary.

nihilistjnr:
You realise that Judaism is the religion and 'Jew' is an ethnicity right?

Yes, that doesn't still make Nigerians become English people overnight. For Einstein, German was the language of his birthplace, Ulm in Germany, and that was his native language.

That's a fact. It's not something you debate. However, he had more than one native language, and Yiddish was the other one, which he used sparingly.

Don't start spamming my mentions with Wikipedia posts again. I won't read it.

You can't use Wikipedia for your company's report abi. Its the same reason why you can't do so that makes me reject the spurious source with many unsubstantiated claims and weak references.

akwesenana:
He didn't use "native" in his post, intelligent.

I used "mother tongue" which means "native language" in my post, which he is discussing.

Lols, na Wikipedia posts I dey see all about. Common Wikipedia o, lols. Wiki to the rescue, the same site with so many unsubstantiated claims. Even if you visit some of the sources stated in the references sections on Wikipedia for some claims, the sites are inexistent.

That's why you don't use such a spurious site to back whatever claim you're making.

GloriousGbola:
mr scientist - are there no links in the article? do you understand why wikipedia has multiple links?

do you know what the blue colored links are?

are you really this void of basic common sense?

you better do yourself a favor and stay back in nigeria in whichever backwater where you are teaching. your proven lack of intellectual competence will be unmasked if you enter a class in uk.

So, I'll be typing each of the long links in your excerpt in my browser to verify your claims. No. You shouldn't even use Wikipedia as a source when discussing with someone like me.

I don't entertain such spurious sources. If you're sure of what you're saying, you'd post a link to your sources here for everyone to see.

nihilistjnr:
Are Jews native to Germsny?

We're talking about a language here. There are jews all over the world, just as there are Christians, Muslims. But everyone knows where those religions or groups originated from in Asia.

If they ask this one to do a company report. He go just visit Wikipedia and download everything there, press copy and paste, report don ready. Graduate for that matter, lols

GloriousGbola:
a 'scientist ' who does not understand how citations and references work


one of the links

https://archive.org/details/completeidiotsgu00mori_0/page/n13/mode/2up

The mere fact you're quoting Wikipedia here to back your claim shows your education is questionable. Wikipedia has so many unsubstantiated claims. There are many parts there where you'd see "citation needed", and even some of the sources cited for some statements are poor.

But people like you wey no know their left from right go dey post Wikipedia all about. Common Wikipedia, lols

nihilistjnr:
If German was the native language of a man whose family originates from the middle east, then explain why English cannot be the native language of a man whose family originates from Nigeria.

Because English is not native to Nigeria in the first place. So Nigerians are now English people to you, lols. All these funny Nairaland arguments sha

GloriousGbola:
going by the 'arguments' you post here regularly - yes. a large number of nigerians actually do have English as their first language.

Yes, according to Wikipedia. Lols, I use the standard definition of "native" in dictionaries, not spurious sources like Wikipedia.

Wikipedia of all sites, lols

GloriousGbola:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_language



try again.

as a self described physicist - one would expect you to deal in empirical absolutes, not meandering.

It's Wikipedia you're quoting for me as your source. And you call yourself a graduate? Wikipedia? So you use Wikipedia to write reports for your company abi. A site with many unsubstantiated claims and can be edited by anyone.

Na common Wikipedia wey anyone can edit dem dey post here to show German wasn't Einstein‘s native language. Wikipedia o, with many unsubstantiated claims

nihilistjnr:
So when I read the below, I laugh. Proud of what? Promote what? Einstein spoke German because he was born in Germany not because he was proud of German Culture. He did everything in his power from an early age to NOT promote Germany.

Okay. You've not shown that German wasn't his native language. English is the native language of Nigerians, too, now. Lols

Okay, Einstein spoke German because he was born in Germany. What do you call a mother tongue or native language? The language of your birthplace.

That makes German the language of Einstein. You've not proven otherwise. Even when he renounced his citizenship in 1933 (I think), he still kept on speaking German, his native language, abroad.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]So, a man's forefathers can have two languages, abi?

It was Yiddish.

That was the language of his forefathers, and he regretted not studying it.[/color]

Use your dictionary to check what "native" means and stop embarrassing yourself in public. A native language is the language spoken in a person's birthplace, and for some people more than one language are spoken.

For Einstein, it was German primarily and Yiddish secondarily. Simple issue.

The mentally infirm person calling for his culture to be abolished and replaced with the English culture sef dey get mouth, lols

There are some people with two, three native languages. That's a well-known fact.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]You are the only graduate here, so i expect you to understand comprehension.

I did not ask you to use dictionary
I did not ask you what "Native" meant

Einstein said he regretted not being diligent in the language of his forefathers.

Which language was he referring to?

Don't be a coward, at least on Muhammad's birthday.

Tell us that language Einstein was referring to.[/color]

I already said Einstein had more than one native language, German (primarily) and Yiddish. You didn't read that abi?

swiz123:
Native language my foot. All these native languages littered all over Nigeria is one of the major causes of disunity among us.

We would have fared better as a country if everyone spoke the same language at least.

Lols, blame your colonial masters for that now. No be dem pack all sorts of ethnic groups, wey no like themselves, under a single country.

Even so, that doesn't mean a person should let English kill his native language. All over the world, hundreds of millions scientists and educators do STEM in their mother tongue.

Among other benefits, this helps them connect deeply to concepts and principles in science and apply this knowledge to invent.

But in Nigeria, most do STEM in English. For this reason, most don't really understand science and can't use their knowledge to invent things.

Most Nigerian students just cram scientific concepts and principles to pass exams.

That's why experts recommend teaching and learning STEM in the mother tongue. The benefits are many, and one of these is that it helps the native culture to develop and keep up with other modern cultures of the world.

The simple fact is, most people are most comfortable in their mother tongue, and that should be the language they should use to learn and do STEM.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]If Einstein said that, which language was he referring to as that of his forefathers?

Please help me make your answer short.

Which language was he referring to as that of his forefathers?[/color]

Lols, German was the language of his birthplace in Germany. The language of a person's birthplace is what's called their native language.

Check your dictionary. I can see you don't know what "native" means.

However, Yiddish is also spoken in Germany. So, his native languages were German (the one he used mostly while alive and did science in) and Yiddish (the one he spoke sparingly).

Simple.

So many ignorant people on Nairaland, people wey no know their left from right. To do a simple research on Google sef, dem no fit do. Graduates o, lols

So if they ask you, "Is German Einstein‘s native language?" in an exam or interview, you'd say no abi. Lols, information that's all over the net and books

izzou:
[color=royalblue]So, Einstein, one the GOATs of trado physics, regretted not being diligent in the languages of his fore fathers?

Hmmmmm.

Yet he was GOATED.

Its okay..[/color]

Who told German isn't his native language? Do you know what they call a native language? I don't think so.

Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, and the language of his birthplace was German. He spoke that language, his mother tongue, for most of his life and did science in it.

You didn't get that well-known history on the same source you screenshot?