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this Guy:
Thank you very much carmelily, your post have been very insightful,
i guess what i was harping on about was mainly about the reality in nigeria
i don't know his background-family support, age and finances so i guess my advice
was about getting ROI asap and developing as he went along; when you consider
social science graduates, language graduates etc working in the banks/telecoms then studying for
second degree part-time or going off to further their education after gaining experience
and saving money you'll understand why i was abit skeptical about going for unpopular courses
that are not yet fully appreciated by big employers in the country.

_{those suggestions were from prospectus.ac.uk}

@Dsguy

No sweat. One thing i realised, early enough (thank God) is that in Nigeria, you create your own reality. Even people with degrees in the so-called "popular" courses are begging bread today. Like the saying goes: The world will step aside and let the man who knows his way make his way. Obama is a good example. Nothing is unachievable. Nothing.

I get the point, but who's the "YOU" in your post?

my nephew trying to look like a rhino!! hehehhe

first we will start by making a[b] Nigerian Dialects dictionary[/b], knowing the languages we going to use incase of reference anyway, I will get back on this later.

I saw this quote just now. what exactly do you mean by a Nigerian Dialects Dictionary? No such thing exists and it cannot for at least 100 years! It will take a team of 50 linguists 20 years at least to achieve that in about 20 volumes! HONESTLY. less than 30 Nigerian languages actually have dictionaries. And 1 language could have as many as 10 dialects. What exactly do you mean A concordance, maybe? I could be of great help if you make your point clearer.

Oh my! This thread makes me very happy. I'm a linguist and i started a related thread:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=160390.msg2686138#msg2686138

I can't emphasise enough how important it is to develop our local languages - directly or indirectly.

You guys can also check these sites out:

http://www.alt-i.org/projects.htm

http://aflat.org/

i wish the OP lived in Somalia. He should be stoned to death!

MrCrackles:
Name got changed because i was mistakenly banned

But he asked me for another username and i said CRACKLES

Then he added MR to it,

Bless him

You seem quite happy with the dignified new name

soon you'll be Sir Crackles. Maybe you should get banned again to hasten the day

@ms.lurker

No one's saying the guy's doing a good job with his wife. But SHE needs encouragement to make her marriage work. Not just up and go without a fight. That's a loser's attitude.

You and i don't know him like she does. we only know about the cheater part but there must be other parts she fell in love with and married. That's why she's here.

@Dsguy

I just read your suggestions for him. They are all great jobs. But if his degree wasn't in English (combined honours) then he can't do the 1st two. The ones you wrote in italics. The truth is what they teach in English are courses like Phonetics, Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, Stylistics, Pragmatics, Morphology. These have nothing to do with primary and secondary school past tense and present tense, singular and plural. But once people hear "English", that's what they assume! The only English graduates who can teach English well are those with combined Honours (in English and Education) because they are trained to teach English.

The other kind is English (Linguistics) and it's all about how English as a language fits into the scientific study of language as a phenomenon. That's why Google is the highest employer of linguists today. When you key in a search word, or a URL, that's syntax in action. When you think of the right way to reply to a message, that's psycholinguistics in action, when you think of the meaning of a search item or search results, or anything to do with logic, that's semantics/Pragmatics in action.

The whole idea of computational linguistics is to try to make machines (ATM, PCs, Translators, the Web, WAP, Spelling Checkers etc) think like humans do. That's where linguists come in. We study Language (note the capital L) and Language is a code. Someone with a degree in English (from Faculty of Arts, not Education) is a linguist, not a teacher. These sites below may give you an idea of what i mean:

http://www.alt-i.org/projects.htm

http://aflat.org/

I hate long posts but i just had to clarify this point. Teaching is no more directly related to English than to say, Medicine or Engineering. Unless you mean English Education. Same for all the other jobs you listed. There are other courses more related to them than English. By far.

@gab

I like that haute couture dress, sha

@RichyBlack

For real. No kidding

this Guy:
you'll definately make a poor teacher!

lets see

4-6 years studying English
1-2 years Masters Linguistics- how much does it cost for a masters program?
8-1year- NIIT,APTECH ETC ETC -certainly not free!
then now Search for a job in Computational Linguistics
makes sense doesnt it?
and chances of you getting spotted by google from a pirate backwater like nigeria
is incredibly high 


So tell us Victor there must be a reason you spent 4-5years studying a course like english
or did someone choose it for you?

In life, if you don't believe, you can't achieve. I knew what i was telling him. In this age and time, no matter what you study you have to know how it relates to IT if you want to stay on top of the game.  that's the simple truth.

who says you have to go to NIIT and all that to be IT-savvy?? why do you have to "search for a job in computational linguistics" (like you say). There are a million and one jobs you can apply your IT skills to. And they all require English as well!

Go to the webmasters' section on Nairaland and see how many guys there talk about  teaching themselves IT or taking free online courses. you don't need to enroll in any NIIT etc etc. All you need is focus and goals.

And yes, i'll definitely make a poor teacher that's why i didnt study English Education. I may be a lecturer someday, but definitely not a teacher.

Besides, if you say education is too expensive or takes too long, TRY IGNORANCE!!

p.s. And the guy's name is Vincent, not Victor. That's a linguistic error

why can't the black nations do anything for themselves? Did they play any role in his victory? NO.

Congrats, Obama!!!

gabrywyl:
Poor girl. But still, I think this thread is a total piece of junk ohhh

@gab
Hmmm, like all those junk gifts you gave us?

this Guy:
where can he study liguistic?

save your save the hustle, money and stress, get with the naija programm
business course bring in the money anything short of that your toying with
your future!! you think google will come snatch you from a uni with no electricty talkless of
computer?

i don't know about "liguistic" but he can study linguistics in UI, UNIUYO, UNICAL, UNN, UNAD etc. Linguistics is directly related to English.
And why would you wait for google to come for you? go to them if they don't!!!

Glite:
sometimes the thing wey we dey find go sokoto dey for sokoto truser pocket.

Now, that's [b]pidgin[/b]icide!

Anything beyond 1 + 1 = 2 is Further/Additional Maths for me

That's why i always stuck to English and Literature jejely

bawomolo:
go teach at a primary school in your abule

He didn't say he read English Education. There's a big difference between English and English Education. Read my october 28 post above and tell me what good i would be to primary school kids? He'd probably be a bad teacher because he didn't study English to teach it.

Haba, just help him with good ideas if you can. He must be quite confused to post this here.

[quote author=Ms. Lurker link=topic=177372.msg3032403#msg3032403 date=1225733466]What's so great about this guy?

Is there something magical about him? Does he grow gold off his body? I mean, what is it?![/quote]Now that's kind of mean.

It's her husband she's talking about here, people!

@X Fio


LOL

we've seen all the ugly sides of Nigeria already. trust me. spare your premature head the stress of trying to find ugly pics for us

What we're on to here is: UGLY BRITAIN. Now how does that even sound like UGLY NIGERIA

why I am actually doing this, is becaus e she abused someone, sayin d person is like a monkey!

i saw this on page 2

but she hasn't denied that she did!

gabrywyl:
I don't see anything wrong with her picture though

there's nothing wrong with her[b] picture[/b], honey. Everything's wrong with the creature in the picture!

_{now, why would she call anyone a monkey when she looks like that?}

Hmm which Obama be that?

wait till all those people you've falsely accused of belonging to your church catch you and sue your satanic ass. Anyway, i think this is a joke lol.

Dear Lysaa
« on: September 09, 2008, 10:47 PM »

Dear LYSAA
I'm writing you this letter to tell you that I'm leaving you for good.

I've been a good man to you for seven years and I have nothing to show for it.
These last two weeks have been hell.

Your boss called to tell me that you had quit your job today and that was the last straw.

Last week, you came home and didn't notice that I had new haircut,
and cooked your favorite meal.

You came home and ate in two minutes, and went straight to sleep after gossiping with your friend on d phone.
You don't tell me you love me anymore, you don't allow me to touch you anymore.

Either you're cheating or you don't love me anymore, whatever the case is, I'm gone.

P.S. If you're trying to find me, don't. Your SISTER and I are moving away to UK together!

Have a great life!

Your EX-boyfriend

Dear Ex-Boyfriend:

Nothing has made my day more than receiving your letter. It
is true that we have been together for seven years, although a
good man is a far cry from what you've been.

I did notice when you got a hair cut last week. The first thing that came to mind was,
"You look just like a girl!", but my mother raised me not to say anything,
if you can't say anything nice. And when you cooked my favorite
meal, you must have gotten me confused with MY SISTER, because I stopped
eating steak seven years ago.

After all of this, I still loved you and felt that we could
work it out. So, when I discovered that I had hit the lottery for
Ten Million Dollars, I quit my job and bought us two tickets to Jamaica .

But when I got home you were gone. Everything happens for a
reason, I guess.

I hope you have the fulfilling life you always wanted.
So take care.


P.S. I don't know if I ever told you this, but Carla, my
sister, was born CARL. I hope that's not a problem.
Change is good.

Your ex-girlfriend,

Lysaa

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort.
He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started Catching monkeys again.
Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50.

However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected.

I will sell them to you at $35 each and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."

The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys.

Then they never saw the man nor his assistant again, only monkeys everywhere!
Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works!

Gamine:
You don't have to point with just a finger

Baby Jinx:
Tee hee hee. . . uwaka type pointing, eh?

Gamine:
ya know na

i don laff die here.

@class
i've been scouting for good ushers and choristers, jare. That's why i absent since. who don contact T.B. Joshua to bless him business ministry? I wan start very, very soon o!

Bigpiper:
scratching-scratching and farting-farting especially in public and not being aware. eew!

now that's so offensive.

Haba, PAP.

Not fair