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Culture › Re: Edo Colonized Yorubaland Not Vice Versa. by amazonia(m): 5:35am On Feb 15, 2011

ezeagu:
Frustration.

Ezeagu, you surprise me oo, so you know Bini that good?

Politics › Re: Police Shoot At People At Jonathan Rally, Leave Several People Dead. by amazonia(m): 8:12am On Feb 13, 2011

Is that really you Beaf? Don't start cross-dressing on me oo.
Mary j Blige! Drag-queen?

Politics › Re: Why Is America So Blessed? by amazonia(m): 9:22pm On Feb 12, 2011

DeeJay20:
At least someone is identifying the problem,

Knowledges of our national problems, are not short in supply.
Propagating attainable solutions is our imperatives. A crooked
mind can never see straight. A limited mind cannot perceive the
illimitable. Our brain/mind is our instrument of perception.
And to perceive truly, the mind must be made straight. It must be
free and cleanse of all conditionings of fears. Because is only the innocent
mind, the mind that has experienced vastly, and yet is free of knowledge
and experience that can discover truth. Don't dwell in past experiences, learn
from them, and focus on possible solutions to our innumerable problems as
necessary to improve our qualities of lifes.

Culture › Re: Edo State Proverbs In All Dialects With Translation(s) by amazonia(m): 8:43pm On Feb 12, 2011

^^^ Good, please always include translations to help the uninitiated.

Politics › Re: Why Is America So Blessed? by amazonia(m): 1:38pm On Feb 12, 2011

AjanleKoko:
Transparent and accountable? Maybe only to their citizens, or maybe even a section of their citizens. But to the rest of the world whose citizens have to pay for these 'interests', I hardly think they'd be happy to stand by and happily applaud.

You are right, the rest of the world do pay directly and indirectly in some cases for the
America blessedness. And the rest of the world on the long run benefits from these
their selfish interests developments too.They have no direct legal obligation to be
transparent and accountable to the world, beyond certain diplomatic agreements.
The world is not applauding their contributions to America successes, they are not
unhappy benefiting from progresses resulting from their innovative successes either.
If our nation have sense of purposes and directions, and achieve great things for its
citizens, that may be, benefit the world directly or indirectly. We will be noticed and gain
respects and admirations for our efforts.

Politics › Re: Why Is America So Blessed? by amazonia(m): 7:51am On Feb 12, 2011

AjanleKoko:
It's amazing that the US, a country with such a dark recent history (Jim Crow, slavery, the KKK, etc) should be spoken of so glowingly by Africans.
Simply amazing. Black people definitely have a lot to learn about life.

Yes, America had, and still having multitudes of problems.
They don't have illusions of being perfect. That's while the
system's check and balance are regularly assessed, and
laws are reviewed, and adjustments are made to correct
unintended consequences.
They did had" a dark recent history", and they are not proud
of it .They have turned a new page, mostly, their intentions are
to serve their citizens interests. Though, they are not meeting
all desired interests, their efforts are transparent and accountable.
So, i won't mind writing glowingly about it, because is the best
national citizenry the world have to offer today.America is so
blessed, because of the stability of their system of government.
And their continue efforts to make quality of life better spurring
innovations.

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 11:14pm On Feb 10, 2011

[quote author=Missy ★ B link=topic=582289.msg7708058#msg7708058 date=1297375580]It's Eghian not Ekhian. cheesy

[/quote]Thank you.

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 10:49pm On Feb 10, 2011

Reading back, i see you could have been right, if we defined our terms correctly.

That is Ikor---- is not really enemy. But a botherer,agitator,and unwanted companion.
an okpomwan. usually use to describe a debt collector.etc.

Eghian-----Is enemy. you don't associate with enemies. They are to be avoided.

so, it is characteristic of an Ukor to T'aikpen, that is behave rude, in non-compliance ways.

A relationship with an ukor can degenerate to enmity[Eghian].

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 6:27pm On Feb 10, 2011

Working casually on your car sometime does not make you a mechanic,
Being rude and defiance(t'aikpen) to your elder sometime does not make you an enemy(ikor).
But, perpetually behaving in that manner could earn you enmity.

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 5:58pm On Feb 10, 2011

^^^ I didn't intend to confuse you. Bini language is very comprehensive .
One need to wear his/her thinking hat to deal with it.

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 4:45pm On Feb 10, 2011

honeric01:
^^^^

Don't you think you're contradicting yourself? how can you say I'm right, but still say there's a difference?

I thought ikor was to disagree/rebel against authority?

Like ikor vwe me khin meaning I'm your opposition
[/quote
]No, ikor/ukor is a noun ---------describing a person/things.
while words we've been discussing are verbs/adjectives. describing actions.

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 1:12pm On Feb 10, 2011

yes , you're right. but there is a subtle difference.
To nag often entails demands. like nagging parents/friends/others for something.
while t'aikpen implies rebelliousness or defiance of authority.

Culture › Re: Edo State Proverbs In All Dialects With Translation(s) by amazonia(m): 12:59pm On Feb 10, 2011

^^^interesting, keep them coming.

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Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 12:32pm On Feb 10, 2011

honeric01:
If ta'ikpen is not nagging, then what is it?

It will be to complain endlessly about something.

ovian or to vian----is also to complain but usually about a lost or what you wish you have.

Culture › Re: If You Are From EDO STATE, Represent The HeartBeat of the Nation by amazonia(m): 12:18pm On Feb 10, 2011

Mai Suya:
wa hia ko yorr _{( hope i got that rit??)}

me we ovbe awusa we khen.
a b awusa no ze edo khen?
koyo temwen.

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 11:55am On Feb 10, 2011

Tuakpe on the other hand is to talk---- rapidly,loudly and argumentatively to other.

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 11:43am On Feb 10, 2011

Is rudely not ridely i intended up there.

I think we are all right though, They are all some kind of negative communications.
verbal and non-verbal.

oniyen-owhan------should be gossiper then.

pamicikan (kpamicikan)----To talk negatvely (lie) about someone. defamation/slander.

Wa bo whee oo.------good morning you'all.
spellings might not be quite right.

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 10:17am On Feb 10, 2011

Atreides:
But i don't nag. It's more like they send me on an errand and i comment on how someone else has been doing absolutely NOTHING all day and then they say i am t'aikpen-ing. Or i go out and when i get back home i discover that they've left the car for me to wash when there are other people in the house doing NOTHING and then i get all 'why did you people have to leave this work for me when so and so is at home? Couldn't they have done it?' and then they say i'm t'aikpen-ing.

to nag or bother somebody is kpokpo (popo). e.g "'e he popomwen". That is, do not bother me.
T'aikpen is to ridely or defiantly, talk about or to your elder. e.g" e gumwen t'aikpen e he hwa ".
Do not talk rudely to or about me, i am not you mate.

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 10:57pm On Feb 09, 2011

TinTin18:
Atreides, la ho, e gui, e ma erhen ebo ro pa ro pa, ovbie osalobua me khin,

okay, lemme try to type in bini. I apologise in advance for my bad spellings, i'd rather speak than type, hehehe!! iyan vbe edo na ma ze se o ghe esan,,, so for that reason, if it appears like its not bini, consider it to be ishan

however, eghe ni na ye khere, iye mwen o we e zuwo, ovbe we egbe ma ran mwen, vbe, e di yi, so kpan, e e vbe digba ne, e e mo bo tie ebo me, rhumwhunda, o rhien vbe, e e ze yo!!, wowww!! I can explain myself in english if need be

you're sweet babe, smooth float. you can tell a story in edo, i bet.

Atreides:
@tintin,E ma gui. . So na me no come be ovbi'osanobua,ehn? I understand (part of)what you said. . Ehn hen,can anybody tell me what t'aikpen means? I'm not sure of the spelling sha but they always say i t'aikpen. @xxxcarolx,we're still working on it. By the time Missy B or Amazonia come around,they'll translate it perfectly for you.

t'aikpen (lo) I think, this has something to do with GOSSIPING.

A t'aikpen w'ebare whodo. who is gossiping out there.

Culture › Re: If You Are From EDO STATE, Represent The HeartBeat of the Nation by amazonia(m): 8:01pm On Feb 09, 2011

i mean ' ugue' not ugee.

Culture › Re: If You Are From EDO STATE, Represent The HeartBeat of the Nation by amazonia(m): 7:59pm On Feb 09, 2011

^^^ Otemwen,

ugue ko, e min e'bo yia nu teah ye obo w'odor. lol.

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 4:13pm On Feb 09, 2011

ivbe edo ne zomo rere
ivbe edo ne zomo rere
ivbe edo ne zomo rere
hian ye mosse, mosse
wa koyo wa do omo
wa koyo, uwa d'omo oo.

nice song.

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 7:54pm On Feb 08, 2011

y me:
LOL. . you were close you got the last two correctly

May be, if you highlight tone of your vowel for up, flat, and down
indications your message will be clearer.

Aghue okhuo gue ese(eze) kia--If you have problem with a woman about d, ick matter.

ona we ye rie-----she said i remember.

Eko a ghe no ehen--- Ask him carefully.

check this , and let see your corrections.

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 2:58am On Feb 08, 2011

honeric01:
I thought thief was oyii?

yes thief is oyi. And also ole, adibo-le o'le.

Then, takpa-rakpa-no-ogie-oyi that is the ring leaders of the thieves. lol

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 2:48am On Feb 08, 2011

y me:
A ghue okhuo gue Ese kia ona we ye rie Eko A ghe no ehen E motor no khia la o we kia kia bus

can any one translate that?. . . .

Iye we o, vbo ve facibukkk e? wa la o wa ghe yo gie gbe vun ha

complicated;

A ghue okho gue ese--they said woman know best.

kia ona we ye rie---this one should remember.

Eko a ghe no ehen---careful if asked

e motor no khia la-----which vehicle his going to enter

O we khia khia bus----he said kia kia bus.

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 2:20am On Feb 08, 2011

honeric01:
Omo lo sakhan wve khin

Honerico,
I think facebook should be something like;
ugba-aro-e'be- facebook.

Ebe-akhonkhon ----bookshadow

Ebe-ukhegbe----- book mirror

I think any of these capture the message,

Politics › Re: No by amazonia(m): 9:43pm On Feb 07, 2011

fstranger6:
@BEcomrichn

DO you listen to rap?

I am a rapper and I want to rap for you

Go 'head man. I wanno hear your rap song,

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 2:49pm On Feb 07, 2011

[quote author=Missy ★ B link=topic=582289.msg7676324#msg7676324 date=1296988980]Lmao!
Mè? Awoo le ihehe? Obo gha vba'wè. grin

Who's heard this saying : ''A ghuè no mose ghian, Elede wè deghe t'iyen lehè a gha te mu iyen bahè'' ? ** I have succeeded in confusing myself too** grin

[/quote]I do, it means someone is chasing after a pretty(handsome) one,
and the not so pretty one said, if him/she didn't hide, he/she would have
been caught.

Elede----Pig.
ghue----To chase
mosse---beautiful
deghe---If not.
t'iyia-----i went
Lehe'--- hide.
Iyen/ihen----him.
bahe----- as alternative/replacement.

I don't have keys to accent my letters. That's while i use combinations of consonalts
to accent mine intentions sometimes.

Politics › Re: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba Were British Creations. by amazonia(m): 3:18am On Feb 07, 2011

sage:
The original poster was not even born or raised in Nigeria, so WTF is he talking about

ChinenyeN:
I have, and I have not come across anything giving me the information I'm specifically looking for. Pray tell though, is there something you know? Do you have answers to my 'silly' questions?
Is that "Obo" pronounced "oh-boh" or "aw-baw"? I'm also very interested in the tonal construction of the ethnonym.

Yes it's [oh-boh] which means hand.

If you are talking about Ovbigbo that Edo call single Igbo individual ? some Igbo hear this word as obigbo
which is wrong, For plural of ovbigbo is ivbigbo. Igbo people

Politics › Re: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba Were British Creations. by amazonia(m): 1:11am On Feb 07, 2011

ChinenyeN:
I'm still curious about Obigbo, if anyone has any real information.

Obigbo could mean one of two things. Depending on what compounded Igbo.

Which could be Obi-Igbo meaning A clan of an Igbo leader.
Or Obo-Igbo meaning the Side (hand)of Igbo/the effort of Igbo.
Obo[H,L].

Culture › Re: Bini Insults! by amazonia(m): 11:43pm On Feb 06, 2011

Wa doo,

This thread is really getting interesting.
Otemwen Missy edurvbe gue guan. .(some other time i talk to you') i have to watch
the SUper-Bowl coming up.
Evben nu wa ta reren.

Politics › Re: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba Were British Creations. by amazonia(m): 6:31pm On Feb 06, 2011

@op
All i will say is, you're wrong.

The GB (gb) sound, is a primordial sound we replicate by Drums.
We Africans are the people of the drums.Quintessential Edo.
While some other people are of the strings, due to the windy nature
of their evolutionary environments.

Essex one of the original ethnics.
Anglo invading migrants fishermen.
Constitutes ENG. The first letter of Essex, E, and the second and third letters of Anglo. NG.
Lish and land are words for language/territory in one or more of the many ethnic groups there, like Celtics,welsh etc
The Saxons came much later, in greater numbers from the interiors of what is present day Germany.
The Anglo and Saxons dominated, thus the Anglo-Saxon. Of course the word have since evolved to mean almost all whites. Excluding Spanish,Jews,Arabs,Slavic's,mongos etc. Especially in USA.

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