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AirborneLacer:
You mean to tell me that your brideprice is £100?

In a manner of speaking, you're worth N30,000?

It doesn't get cheaper than this. Let's wed already please, I can't miss out on this awoof

Yes oo, it is
Atleast that is just for the money you'd place inside the big calabash. Then when you get notified on other stuffs, the money for don pass one million

On the other hand, abeg just gimme the deal money.. it gurantee's me some nice sneakers @ topshop 2mao

Brandnew2:
Chai! Dechandel go fit scam person o!

Area of expertise

ronald4lif:
Lol! If you know as I dey fear and avoid insults on this forum, some people got them handy and are ever ready to unleash them at any one who missed their way. That's how I missed my way to a thread today and I aired my opinion without insults ohh. The OP came for my jugular and I tear race like Usain Bolt. How can some people just freely insult people ehh, e taya me.

I am never serious with my comment on NL, and then someone whose life is devoid of humour tags himself along and feels like twerking on my comment, nooo.. both of us will die on that thread that day

But abeg, that shyte isn't classy.. and this can only be found in this romance section where kids hold the highest fan base

E good as you tear race, truth is. sometimes its best to ignore.. I learnt this one today from two of the most interesting peeps on this forum

AirborneLacer:
Normally, ladies pay handsomely for the groom's price in my town.

Now this is the perk of working on a deal with me. I earn the whole percentage whilst you forget about paying my groom's price.

I see you smiling already. I see you saying it aint X-mas yet and Santa is here with his irresistable offers

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Oga oo, have you seen my father's fixed brideprice?? Trust me, your groom price has got no hold on that..
And again, did i tell you that you can pay the brieprice to me?? so what do you say you if i get the whole deal money??

ronald4lif:
You no see your life. On whose is bill is the percentage expected from

Wetin concern me??

ronald4lif:
Hehe! I had better scale through, make the instructor better maintain. £65 in just 2hours lessons. Who want to do that more than a week in a stretch, with this brokeness.

You study at Greenwich uni right. Na there you dey gather this your argument skills ba

Lol.. brokeness no be small thing o, its everywhere..

Argue ke?? Nope i don't argue on Nl because the very next minute you counter their post, you'd see all manner of insults flying towards you

I just had to hassle words with you today cause its you ..

AirborneLacer:
You just dey dull me.

If you wont collabo with me, then I'd opt for a single or better still feature the ever blazing Dechandel.

Dechandel darling, promise me you wont blow this deal by rapping with a Surulere accent

Lol, its all about the money.. 40:60
The 60% goes to me
You agree on this and we have a deal!

ronald4lif:
Na boredom dey cause this particular argument ohh. And to think I have a driving theory test Monday and I haven't even go through the video. NL if na trap e no go work.

Hehehehhe..
Don't worry you will scale through, even if you don't There is always a next time, no be me talk am o.. these are the foolish words that come from the driving instructor

ronald4lif:
Hehe! Kedu ife mee kwa. Who say make you no use your red fonts before? Instead you go use pink you dey on danger.

If only you know how tiring fixing the font ish is??
You sha can argue eeh, i pray not to meet your type in court

ronald4lif:
I am not talking about Scottish accent sis, I don't even understand most of their pronounciation. Never been to Scotland either.

Were there a means to enable a voice group conversation this argument would have been more comprehending. So far with my direction of argument and that of others, without any strong practical evidence to back it up apart from mainly anecdotal evidences, I will draw a line at this point.

ronald4lif:
I didn't say one must only be born in the UK to have the Brit accent, I said it's either they are born in the UK, or moved to the UK at a very young, prolly teen years or early adult (youthful years) before they can fully adopt the Brit accent. Most of the people who can pronounce or make a statement or short speech with a Brit accent will fail woefully if given an essay to read it out in Brit accent. They will end up mixing different accent together.

Brandnew2:
Airbornelancer is so on point.

That's basically what I've been saying since o!

AirborneLacer:
This is only a cheap generalization.

Firstly, Not every one that speaks with a foreign accent is 'forming' as you asserted.

I for one, don't feel too comfortable speaking with the Nigerian accent - this doesn't make me less of a patriot.

I tend to express myself more when I switch to my prefered British accent.

You don't have to blame me for this really. As a lad, I attended a seminary school that had English folks as teachers.

At a very tender age, I was encouraged to speak the British way by the school. It was hardly boring and I so much loved the experience.

Secondly, one doesn't necessarily have to travel out of the country to acquire a foreign accent.

If this is some kind of notion, then it has to be dismissed.

You can learn a foreign accent by mere watching foreign movies, attending a Nigerian school that recognises a foreign curriculum, engaging in conversations with foreigners etc.

It's that simple.

ronald4lif:
Sorry, I may have missed your point there. I thought you were trying to say that for the fact that Chiwetel lived in the East and his parents thought them their language while growing up, he should have equally adopted the Igbo accent just like he did adopt that of Britain. Or you may want to rephrase your question again, sorry.

Brandnew2:
Nobody says Wole Soyinka speaks exactly like the British. What I believe Dechandel is trying to say is that he's got a fusion of british in the way he speaks and she's right. That's why they call it Queens English. They thought us and we blended it with out own natural tongue to produce that unique type of English.

ronald4lif:
Lol! At the age of 9 and 13 one is still a teen, and that was still what I said at the onset, that unless you were born or spent your teen or youthful years in the UK, you can hardly adopt the Brit accent. Only 2 in 10 does so successfully in their early adult years like I also pointed out in my earlier comment.

There are many Nigerian born kids, especially Yorubas, whose parents sent them to Nigeria to live for some years before they come back to Britain. They learnt Yoruba and Nigerian pidgin during their stay in Nigeria. But they never lost touch of their Brit accent, because they were born in the UK and that was the ever first language they adopted in life. I hope this answer the question.

ronald4lif:
Your examples of Chuka Umanna and Chiwetel falls in line with my argument. They were born and/or grew up in the UK. I would never cite such examples as a reference to this debate.

Learning a language is different from having an accent. I said I lived in the East and learnt Igbo, and I also said I don't have the igbotic accent. There's a difference between learning a language and adopting an accent. Or you could correct me if I am wrong.

ronald4lif:
When it comes to differentiating vowels sound in writing that's not my thing but I am reasonably good at knowing the difference of consonants.

There are many videos on YouTube of Brits whose accent one can never match as same with Soyinka's. Please for starters, take some time out again and listen to Soyinka's videos again on the net and compare with that of Tinie Tempah, Cameron, Boris Johnson etc and see if you can boldly say Soyinka's got Brit's accent. I know you here Brits talk everyday as well in person or you may even have the Brits accent yourself, you really think Soyinka's accent is same with what you here on the streets daily?

Based on the argument on immigrants who migrated to Britain at an adult age with pure British accent that's one fact I won't also want to be engage on. Mixing up words like Jim Iyke did in the past in movies is not American accent but many people thought it was then and still is now. I have had this same argument many times with guys who almost 95% of people in Naija thinks their accent is Brits but admits theirs and the Brits born is largely different.

When you attend an office where a registration is made, and passports or biometric checks is required to run some checks. No matter how British is your accent if you weren't born or spend teenage and relative young years in the UK, the question of where are you originally from will always pops up, if you like have a red passport. But when they here proper Brit accent, such a question hardly surfaces. And it has nothing to do with skin colour, same treatment goes to white (EU citizens) and blacks (African kids but or who spent their youthful age here). Such question comes up because the Brits knows and can differentiate their accent from that of copy-cats. Pardon any typo, busy with other stuffs while typing.

ronald4lif:
Who do I even quote and leave the other. A lot of mix up here.

I have watched Soyinka speak severally and I couldn't find any trace of British accent from the way he speak. Na wa ohh.

Fact is, if you weren't born in Britain or spent your childhood years there your British accent is likely a fake. A lot of people just rap words thinking that's how Brits speak. I laugh. Only about 2 in 10 of those who have migrated and living permanently for years in the UK has the British accent, though not even perfect. Needless to say tourists who just visit on holidays or rap words thinking they have British accent.

If them no born you for UK, or you spent your childhood and teenage years in Britain your British accent is most likely fake.

Quote me with Nigerians who weren't born or grew up here with British accent let's compare their accent to Brits, with available videos on YouTube.

djeezy:
tah shift. My heart is beating fast. I feel like running away. They are so amazing.

Beating ke?? just to choose one person whose lines captivated your heart ..
Just log off and go to bed if you are that nervous

Shugaboi:
should I buy for you?

Brandnew2:
How come you're not wooing someone?

kilokeys:
smh.. too much film.. u need to be alive for dechandel o.

Darkrebel666:
~ To Dechandel

• Hi Baby, the love I have for you is bigger the architecture of Greece and Rome.
•Your radiant smile ,Your Soft Skin and your big ass can make a Preacher say God-Damn and can make John Elton straight.
• I want you to be my bread and bacon and my very own Phylicia Rashad
• I want you to be my nail while I hit you like a Carpenter.
• I wanna Put you on the bed like Lionel Messi... Oya spread your legs for me like James Milner

D1ck:
Dechandel.... Oyinbo pepper; darkrebel666, can you actually believe that some peeps are envious of this princess.... You are completely personified... Whenever I stare at your pix, you make my whole body frail and the energy is gonna garner to a certain place. Fine girl no pimples, you've got no dimple yet you're still beautimple. Everything about you reeks of embellishment in my own cognition. I want to turn to your bra so that I can hold those b00bs all day... I wish to become that chair you're sitting on.. You are a woman of virtue and high prestige. The mere sight of you can make Jesus drink himself to stupor. I'll gladly succumb to your love if you offer it. With you I feel my rapture, and I'll chatter for months and even years if that's gonna secure a place for me in your heart. I promise to handle your love painstakingly.

*In Paul plays voice* Without you girl my life is incomplete you are the Angel of my life