₦airaland Forum

onatisi:
if they call it yakata or awuf ,how will u know it is black friday they are refering to ?

this time of the year is quite unique, it is the closest time to christmas with the least end-of-year inflation. Americans noticed it and called it black friday, we can notice it and call it yakata.

Yakata or awuf, sounds more original, not black friday.

Largas:
Fredo. Examiner go fail you if you write that shiiit for WAEC or NECO ooo.
You made nice points though.

and you made nice points yourself

AllNaijaBlogger:


Fredo, don't mind all these grammar nazis.

Some of them haven't even been to the UK or USA but they will be claiming what they don't know.

You can imagine the joker claiming that we should change the same way American English changes.

What he doesn't know is that Nigerian English is also new English. American English existed before 1960.

Furthermore, English changes in different countries differently.

"Isn't it" in slang form in UK is "innit"
"isn't it" in slang form in USA is "aint it"

exactly

kandiikane:
You won't get a formal job in England if you go for an interview and say," wahgwan blud, Wass gwaning today, just came to get a job init"

''I passed out from NYSC last year'' will be tolerated.

Largas:
I am ashamed of reading the points a glorified 'Grammarian" is putting forward. You mentioned about culture and I was quick to remind you that other English speaking countries like US, Australia, Canada, NZ, etc stuck to English because they've no other viable language to fall on. In our case, if you have to present language as a culture why don't we go back to what we speak and write in, before the colonial years.

its like you dont know what culture is! Culture is the way of life of a people, it isnt the way people lived, it is the way people live in the present. not only is culture dynamic, it is also learned, so a people can learn culture (atleast parts of it) from another, so, english is Nigerian culture because it is the way we communicate now.[/quote]

Do you mean we should invent our own Nigerian English? Why would we when we have got Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa?

yes! why shouldnt we?
Having native languages is even more reason we should reinvent english.

Mate, stop defending those semi-literate journalists or are you one of them Change is one thing constant in this world and when English evolves, all English speaking countries should adapt, when they lag-behind, they would rather appear ill-informed. Don't tell me we should invent our English or stick to the blunders we yell everyday when change is constant, if English is much of a problem to you, swerve to Igbo or Yoruba whichever is easiest for you to escape blunders in.

how do you mean that when english evolves, everyone follows suit? When America formed american english, did britian adopt it?
And English only left britian for other countries after the 17th century reaching Naija 100 years ago, there has not been enough time for serious change as it happened during the medieval times.
What you call 'blunders' are not blunders because they are generally spoken and accepted, they are now Nigerian variations in English.

tuffgongjo:
Horrible accents?
Do you know you can't speak without "an accent"? American,British,Jamaican,etc are accents which you don't see as horrible right?

I meant their fake foreign accents.

uzolexis:
Our accent is not horrible too,it's the Nigerian accent. Every country has it's accent wc is unique 2 them.

I meant their fake foreign accents.

Largas:
Says the nonsense-spitting-one. If language were culture then we should stick to our native languages and forget about English.

Nigeria is a compilation of numerous ethnic nations, we were united to form one country and english is the official language, we have all fallen to it to communicate with one another. pidgin is even there for quicker and more convenient communication.

Communication is what language is all about, Nigerians are getting information explicitly that is what is important, not some guidelines from Britian.
English in Britian has been changing since time immemorial, english in medival times is different from english now.
If english can change in Britian why cant it change in Nigeria?

Those English speaking countries you think of, what other languages aside English do they have as major language? Speak out.

how does this deviation help your argument or counter mine? Drop your points and stop asking yeye questions.

DjAndroid:
Is The language yours? If you must speak a language, speak like the owner of the language. You may not have the accent but the grammar/technicalities must be revered.

English is not made in Nigeria, so there is nothing like "this is Nigeria for you".

Speak English the way it should be spoken.

the sole purpose for language is communication, Nigerians are communicating intelligently and unamibigously, that's what matters.
your logic of saying that since it is a borrowed language, it shouldnt be suited to us is like buying a house that you can't make changes to.
Americans have so much modded the English but you dont see any american screaming about falling back to some invisible british guideline for speaking english.
Even in britian itself, they are different sorts of englishes, all considered correct.

Largas:
Nonsense. Anything worth doing, is worth doing well. How can you report in English when you don't make grammatically correct and coherent sentences. Forget about the accent, that is relative to culture. If we can't be good at written English, let's skip it and make Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba our official languages instead of having learned indegenes and foreigners laugh at our semi-literate reporters masquerading around as the exact opposite of what most of them truly are-semi-literates.

Nonsense, if you think accepted changes and flavour we have made and given to the english we speak is wrong, you should also consider the english spoken in america and other english speaking countries wrong.
Isnt it bad enough that we are communicating in an alien language that we should now go further by abiding by some invisible british code of speaking english.

Culture is dynamic
culture changes
language is culture

Justfollowit:
1. It is a stereotype, which is unfortunately true. Same with the Angry black women stereotype.




2. According to the media and the grand jury (a unanimous decision), there was a struggle. On that basis, I made my conclusion. I strongly believe that under no circumstances should any responsible individual attack or struggle with a law enforcer. Pardon me, my sense of justice outweighs my sense of empathy

1. You are an internalized racist! Stereotypes can not be true! Thats why they are stereotypes and not facts.

2. An unarmed minor was shot by a 28 year old trained police officer! Think about it.
What was the cause for the original altercation? What made the officer stop? That he was walking on the road and not on the sidewalk or he looked like someone that just robbed a liquor store?

SirShymex:
Lol, Coogar's sarcasm is legendary. The same Africa everyone's trying to get out of? Marcus Garvey's "back to Africa" boat is lost forever like the Kingdom of Atlantis. They just need to rally around one another, like the rest of black diaspora, and keep hoping for a better day. While we all hope God turns the fortunes of Africa around - and make it a place we can all call home.

Right now, home is where you understand. And the fact that they've been there for over 400 years means: they can survive the next 2000 years in the same place.

Anyway, I think black women need to start raising black males better than they're doing now. They need to start teaching them the realities of who they're. And also with police, once you're a black man, your rights should be the last thing on your mind. Just accept whatever they throw at you, and survive first.

mba! If men that fought for racial equality didnt think about the rights of themselves and their brothers first, how do you think things will be?
There should be a balance between rights and being co-operative, infact we all should co-operate as far as a point that being uncooperative won't be a crime or even as far as it is convenient.

Stillfire:
Rotflmao! Her opening line about accent was embarrassing to say the least, but other than that I share the same sentiments.
I have never ever gotten the thrill of people saying they miss home. I have never missed Nigeria one bit. I hate that place more than the ghettofied fiends I encounter here.
I'm a typical virgo and can only excel where there is ORDER! I have known since I was a teenager writing JAMB, that Nigeria can never give me that!
But like the terminator, I'll be back in that country. And it's going to be for war. My motto is going to be 'The sensitization of the Nigerian populace!' Lol.

solutions to Nigeria's problems would be tested and come from within not from a Nigeria-hating-Nigerian who thinks Nigeria would be a testing ground for his unfeasible foreign gotten ideas.

Noooo!

Nonsense! Do you expect us to speak english exactly like the british? This is Nigeria and thats Nigerian english for you.
I expected you to criticize their horrible foreign accents.

vicchi12:
not true

imagine

fnep2smooth:
I wish someone can train me to be a sniper
I swear with my grandparents grave I would have killed them all. I swear
( crying )
I can't even boost of a normal income Or beta job

its the system that encourages all these ill practices, lets change the system.

Isiterere:
Is it free ? NO
Is it qualitative? YES
Is it worth it ? YES
Is it for common man ? NO

Shame on poverty...
Working hard to be the best dad for my children.


ALL IZZ WELL

you can be very optimististic about your future without acknowledging the unfortunate class gap in Nigeria and the world in extension, refine your philosophy!

Mcbussy:
Well,lemme just sit and watch.no matter how hard they try,they can't go beyond 23% of world population.

just imagine that islam has a world population of 70%

Unibenstudent:
anyway may his soul rest in peace

amen

Unibenstudent:
he was killed by chicken pox

ehh! Just chicken pox!
But chicken pox isnt that deadly?

Daresh:
If you like sleep with your wife the day she comes from hospital, e no concern me.

exactly, the way u responded to the woman, like a hyena on heat was too nosy.

walemoney007:
d pple of ilorin should decide for diaself,am from ondo,if dey are ok wit an emir who am i to fight for dem

ehen, na wetin u for talk since!

Unibenstudent:
that one is a boy named obuks .

ok
what killed him, obuks?

Unibenstudent:
that one is a boy named obuks .

ok

Daresh:
You are a foolish woman. After 3 weeks to please him. You can infect yourself and cause serious pain. Where you not still bleeding?

So he cannot self-service off? Did your doctor not tell you 6 weeks?

Foolish foolish woman.

home breaker

Is he the guy that said '' we go jack die this semester''?

walemoney007:
old man are u sayin Kwara state is been ruled by a emir.if u will bliv dat den i want u to also agree wit me dat d obi of onitsha has authority ova d whole igbo land

kwara as in Illorin
stop picking grammatical errors and face arguments!
Gosh, no one is going to die if you are made to look like a fool, stop being too defensive, it is an anonymous forum.

walemoney007:
were in my first post did i wrote dat anioma and ikweres not to join biafra?

so you expect us to join biafra and leave our land behind?

walemoney007:
are u sure u read what i wrote before u quoted me.were in my post did i mention ikwerres and d anioma not been igbo

if we are Igbos then why shouldnt we go with biafra?

Towards breaking Nigeria come 2015