₦airaland Forum

Gajagojo:
Why are you telling me did I say that there is?
Did I ask you?
I am not interested in your unsolicited lecture
Why not tell me There is no snail called Calabar?

If you had insinuated same, I'd have told you just that..😂.

Your vexatious vituperations are highly irrelevant.

ThatCEO:
We don't have a leadership crisis in this country, we just have way too many dull people, I mean, just take a look at the leaders we appoint.

If you can't put naira Marley at the crime scene, heck, he wasn't in d country a full 2 weeks before Mohbad died, you don't have a murder weapon or a evidence of poisoning, call both CIA and KGB together, they will sweat over this issue.

Let the police release his toxicology report Na, make we check wetin dey him system d time he died.

The angry mob r too dull to realise that Naira owns the right to all of MOHBAD's hits. The more he tops the chart, d richer Marley becomes, if una like make una no give am show for 3 years. The kain money wey Apple music alone will pay Marley go shock una.

Everybody is calling for Marley's head, but what kind of life was Mohbad having before he met Marley? Abi we no gather see the condition of his father? Did he ever in his life dreamt of making anything out of life before he met Marley n became big boy n even thought of buying a ₦30M range rover?

What type of an upbringing do you think Naira himself had? Had a difficult childhood, had no one to look out for him, walking around d street of UK not knowing if the next person that walks past you will stab you in the kidney. How many of you live in a place where you are scared of getting stabbed?

I am sick of the humongous amount of dumb people in just one country. Dey won't do shitt about the high cost of living, filling out in their millions over a case that's police work.

When I said something similar a short while ago, I was labeled as lacking empathy. We have simply lost the intellectual ability to be objective and circumspect in our reasonings. Almost everybody just panders to emotions and media sensationalism. Then some spice it with a worrisome blend of idiocy.

BRATISLAVA:
How could I have known or heard about it before? Am I a soaker of "local Nigerian parlance"?

Not everyone knows what ever it is you call your car parts. And frankly, to expect me to know it reeks of assumptions.

And yes, it sounds idiotic to see cars that have legs. At least there was someone who explained it without assuming I would know anything about your cars on stilts.

Cars with legs. Lol

Smh.

Clearly, even exposure doesn't often equate to proper mannerism.

BRATISLAVA:
So it's a Nigerian thing that cars have legs? Educate us.

I've never heard of it before. And I'm shocked to see that cars in Nigeria have legs. Cars with legs. LMAO.

Your attempt at mockery is well recognised.

If you had put the same energy into reading my first response to you, you certainly would have seen where I emphatically quoted "Legs" and the words that followed it.

Cars do not have legs. The entire suspension system and tyres are however, simply described as "Legs" in local Nigerian parlance. You may actually have heard of or known this before. But just because you're trying to portray others as being idiots for the entertainment of the reading public, you have opted for mockery and sarcasm.

illicit:
Patois is not pidgin, it is a Creole ( like a mother tongue)

Any body that speaks a standard variety of a language might understand it's pidgin because Most of the vocabulary of the pidgin version are from the parent stock

If u tell any English speaker that 'I no want problem'. They will understand what u mean, no matter the country

I am a Linguist

"I am a Linguist".

😂😂.

Nairaland linguist.

illicit:
Pidgin started as a language of commerce

Mostly in colonies

Your country wasn't a colony, I understand you

I am a Linguist

There's a fool here who can't answer simple questions but goes on talking balderdash...

A doctor doesn't need to go about shouting that he's one..😂. His response(s) to health related issues, whether theoretical or circumstantial, will do the telling.

You're everywhere on this thread claiming to be a linguist when your own brain is not working to that effect. There's basically no difference between you and Bola Tinubu who has for long claimed to be a "seasoned accountant", yet went on air to ask "na statistics we go chop?"

What kind of an accountant discredits the relevance and plausibility of statistics?!

illicit:
U speak Kwale and deafinese and u have a diploma in whatever

But u cant define Creole?
We ain't on the same page


Get off my mention

It is not my responsibility to define "creole" to you..😂. And your sad attempts at mockery matter to me in no significant way.

I know your kind. You employ the ridiculous tactics of sarcasm and insults when arguments don't soothe your ego. And for a supposed learned fellow, you're portraying very crude and uncouth behavioural tendencies. Goes to show your level of exposure, or lack of it thereof.

You never still answer my question sha!

phemray:
Thank you ooo, I tot they want to end betting platforms.

😂😂.

Dawon fit make boys protest enter streets na. Even the whites will raise voices in disagreement.

illicit:
I am a Linguist

Do you know what a polyglot means?

People who haven't been to school speaks more than two languages

What's ur point?

Talking about deviation, have you ever been on any point?

Pls don't mention

I've been on just one point through the entirety of our engagement, and that's the "fact" that Pidgin is an English-based creole.

There's a humongous distinction between being a Linguist and a polyglot. I should know because I am both. I speak Spanish, a bit of French, a bit of Hausa, my ethnic dialect which is "Lokaa" and the lingua we're conversing with. That makes me a polyglot. I equally have two degrees, a Bsc in Information Science and a Diploma in Linguistics from Taniform Institute in Bamenda. Currently undergoing studies for a third degree.

So, I speak from a place of confident intellectual authority as regards this subject. Again, how many languages do you speak?

Gajagojo:
Calabar as a term is very germane to the conversation on Pidgin English and its Origin
The area used to be known as Calabar Province even before there were any states in Nigeria or even Nigeria. This was a very extensive area extending into what is now modern Cameroon

I never called it a state so stop ranting like a zombie

I'm very uninterested in your narration of history, just telling you that there's currently no existing State that is Calabar.

illicit:
U see what I mean now?

U don't know anything Linguistics?

Do you know what a Linguist means?

You assume I am a polyglot

Please let this be the last time you mention me Olodo

Why are you shouting..😂?

I deliberately deviated from the subject matter by asking you a very simple question. Please how many languages do you speak?

Gajagojo:
Shut up and go away You are a nuisance

I'll shut up when I darn well please..😂! If that offends you as well, go have a drink to soothe your temper or something.

illicit:
Bro

This is intellectual stuff, don't appeal to emotions

You dont know anything about Languages

Lol.

You're curiously amusing. Please, how many Languages do you even speak?

Gajagojo:
If I mention Four names Uche , Ebere , Chidi and Bola

You can foolishly turn round and say Bola is not an Igbo name why am I mixing it
I would answer and tell you I was listing names that are unisex which are used by both male and Female


That is your own intelligence in performing a sorting task Those are the kinds of associations you find in IQ tests those with low IQ only think one way Edo may or may not be a state in my thinking when writing that list
Your mind is zombified that is why you reason like a Zombie.

Stop ranting

Your IQ is low You are not that sensible

Any avid reader can most certainly posit as to who's ranting or having a questionable IQ betwixt us.

I'm not the one slinging insults under the guise of having an informed conversation. That said, Calabar is not a State and you'll serve your brain better by adopting that correction. Whatever other instance you brandish in your effort to explain away your first fallacy, is roundly inconsequential.

Peace..😂!!

illicit:
Please stop mentioning CREOLE

u don't know what it means


Common!

U are getting on my nerves

You have the tendency to be condescending with words.

You do not retain monopoly of linguistic knowledge, as you're so inclined to believe. If my insistence on the subject matter offends you, that cannot be helped. Either you do more research for your own intellectual benefit or you can stick to what you believe to be true.

Davoneskay:
Pidgin is not totally same as creole. Creole has rules guiding it. Creole has syntax according to a documentary I got. But Pidgin has no rules. Jamaican patois used to be Pidgin for a very long time before it became standardize and developed to a full language (creole).
Illicit, kindly note that most English speakers who aren't Nigerian do not understand Nigerian Pidgin English. You may think it is simple but it is very complex to them. For example, "Dey there make pant dey wear you" is a Pidgin English but no non-Nigerian English speakers would understand.
Boldbrainz, Upsupa, and the rest, Pidgin English is totally not same with creole. Creole is advanced and standardized. It has its lexis and structure.

Nigerian pidgin is an English-based creole, and this shouldn't even be a basis for lengthy arguments. I'm currently editing a very bulky document and won't have the time to write detailed epistles on this. Please kindly do a simple internet search on this subject.

pendragonbladgo:
Only Yorubaland and North you can enjoy your life in aspect of Agriculture.

The rest of the region is suffernes

How many States in Nigeria have you actually traveled to?

There's no luck to this kind of purchase. He had the choice to sell or watch them go totally rotten. Clearly, some of the plantains are even starting to spoil.

And this kind of ripe plantains are unhealthy for consumption. Just accumulating starch and sugar in your body.

OP,
Take a towing van to that workshop, but before moving the car, take very detailed pictures of it from the interior to the exterior and bonnet. I know you'll incur extra expenses, but it's a necessary inconvenience. Have another technician attend to it in another workshop. After about a week, pick up the mechanic with Officers of the Mobile Police force and file complaints of missing car parts at their station. Have him detained and insist he must pay for the missing parts before release. All of us know say Police go touch am "small" for that detention.

BRATISLAVA:
A car has legs? What sort of car is this?

Of course you have this complaint if your technician tells you that your car has legs in need of fixing. Legs.

I want to believe this is you being sarcastic.

Cause basically everyone who knows about cars in Nigeria knows what's meant when "Legs" are used to label certain parts of the car.

illicit:
Oga tell us what's a Creole

Stop ranting abeg

Even a simple google search would have helped cure you of this audacious yet embarrassing display of misinformation.

illicit:
I have never met u

What do you mean 'English based creole'

If you know what creole means you might not define pidgin that way

Oga, pidgin is a creole. When interlocutors give you contrary opinions to what you think you know, the onus is on you to research for additional knowledge, not to take arguments as a stock in trade while boasting about being idle.

Gajagojo:
Did I say Calabar is a state? I never did In fact I never used the word state so do not take out your anger or frustration on me


There is a term "Calabar boy" that was used in the 70s if you are old enough you would know exactly what it means .

Please stop ranting

I am not ranting, neither am I frustrated.

You listed Delta, Edo, Rivers, then went ahead to add Calabar. Whether you attached the "State" tag to them or not is inconsequential. Any sensible reader would have figured that out already.

That's the same misconception most of you Nigerians sell out there. Soon as anyone says he's from Akwa Ibom or Cross River, you swiftly label him/her as a Calabar person.

illicit:
Do you know what creole means?

Lets start from there

I am very idle right now

Do I look to you like an idiot?

illicit:
Nigerian pidgin English is not a creole

The best u can say is that in the south south it's almost a Creole but not yet

This is false.

Nigerian pidgin is an English-based creole.

Gajagojo:
Pidgin in Nigeria varies
depending e.g Delta State and Edo are quite different from Rivers or even Calabar

Do not forget that a part of Cameroon= Northern Cameroon used to be part of Nigeria until 1963. They can sound Nigerian with a little efforts though use some funny words

pidgin has no real root or origin in the SW or Northern Nigeria

I find it really awkward when even Nigerians consistently equate "Calabar" to be a state.

You cannot list States and be mentioning Calabar as one of them, for whatever intents. Calabar is the capital of Cross River State. The state has a litany of other ethnicities. Even the Calabar itself is not dominated by the Efiks. Most of the people claiming indigenous roots in Calabar are originally from Odukpani, Akamkpa and Akpabuyo.

There's pidgin variants in Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Ghana and a sparse population of Senegal.

After ours, I have a liking for that of Cameroon. It's amusing to the senses.

labake1:
Exactly o
Even market women are talking about him. My granny that doesn't even know him, was asking me if his autopsy is out.

Whether he was into drugs or diabolic acts, he doesn't deserve to be murdered.

It don't bother me what he deserved or didn't. We deserve some quiet while they investigate his darned demise!

Quality of life? In Nigeria?

Lol.

ashacot:
Gowon on infrastructure and economy

Obasanjo on economy (not completely impressive but he tried)

Buhari; on infrastructure. Completely did well on this with very few resources

Without the intents of sounding demeaning, please which "infrastructure" did Buhari precisely build in Nigeria?

emerged01:
Same here but the fact is the issue is not fading away for now.

And bloggers are milking the issue for every cent it is worth, which is unpalatable.