Agriculture › Re: Gift Udoh: US Honours Nigerian Lady For Contribution Towards Farming [photo] by gozzlin: 5:24pm On Sep 23, 2019 |
Kudos to her. |
Romance › Re: Does A Girl Staring At A Guy Mean She Wants To Have Sex With Him? by gozzlin: 5:16pm On Sep 23, 2019 |
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Romance › Re: Does A Girl Staring At A Guy Mean She Wants To Have Sex With Him? by gozzlin: 5:13pm On Sep 23, 2019 |
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Health › Re: My Manhood Has Stopped Working. by gozzlin: 4:49am On Sep 23, 2019 |
bizzibodi: U don get rest be that na,not everyone need a joystick,we are overpopulated already...some joysticks need to go on dead mode. Yes, including yours. |
Celebrities › Re: Pretty Mike Arrives A Wedding With 5 Ladies In Wedding Gown by gozzlin: 5:57pm On Sep 22, 2019 |
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Romance › Re: Lady Shares The Photo Of A Man To Confirm His Relationship Status Before Sex by gozzlin: 3:59pm On Sep 22, 2019 |
She looks way older than him. |
Crime › Re: Hope Uzodima Arrested In India After A Fellow Nigerian Snitched On Him [Photo] by gozzlin: 2:32pm On Sep 22, 2019 |
 I thought it was the real Hope Uzodimma from Imo state.
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Nairaland General › Re: Drop Your Most Embarrassing Moment - Let’s Laugh A Little by gozzlin: 2:14pm On Sep 22, 2019 |
joyfullyjoyous: I couldn't just imagine having an affair with the man. One I was afraid the ppl who killed the woman could be within. That was my major fear. I'm back with my girl's dad. Atimes I wish to know how the children and their dad are doing now. They used to live down Adetola Street,Aguda. Can't remember the No but I know it's a three-storey building while his office was at NEPA Aguda where chicken republic is built now.. Awww, okay. We pray they're doing well and also hope he got married again. It's really tough losing a spouse to the cold hands of death. |
Health › Re: Male Infertility!!! Share Your Experience/success Story. by gozzlin: 5:53am On Sep 22, 2019 |
Fruitfulmom2240: Please can staph reduce my husbands semen mortility? The semen count was 144.4 million with 40% mortile cells in January but last month the semen count was 138.2 million with only 10 uh% mortile cells. Please what can we do? We had staph but mine has cleared and his is yet to clear. I would think that semen with sperm count of 138.2 million is very much enough for conception, considering the fact that only 15 to 20 million is considered fertile. |
Nairaland General › Re: Drop Your Most Embarrassing Moment - Let’s Laugh A Little by gozzlin: 9:28am On Sep 21, 2019*. Modified: 5:28am On Sep 22, 2019 |
marvelous000: Trust me, my dear.
we will write plethora of books if we should do speculate on that. a lot of people like to destroy what they don't understand or it's not within the confine of their mediocrity. it's part of the human psychic. it's akin to a swarm of termites waiting for the wind of their collective sneer to break me like a tree, so they can feed on me and pull me back to the common jungle.
XhosaNostra whom i was having a tete-a-tete with, had no problem, it is people who it isn't their business. anyway, I'm impervious to them, and usually ignore them, but felt oblige to respond when Ishilove whom i like and should've known me better right from my nascent on this fora, seem to join the bandwagon.
 
you know, I usually ignore this kind of your petty post, but i feel called upon to educate and slough your ignorance, so you don't go brandishing it with reckless chutzpah next time
there are more than one way to express the same thing, just like 'vast' is the most apt word to use in the context i used it. I know endeavoring you to read up on figurative expression will be tantamount to the worsest carnage of human history, if measured in material quantity, so I'll ask you to check number 4 definition of the pics below, or check this link>>> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vast
Now, fvck off to a well deserved oblivion. No Mr. Knowitall, aka Mr. Showboater, you are the one to _fuck off to oblivion with your infantile grasp of the English language. Yes, it's obvious that you are not yet proficient in the use of English. Employing verbosity and archaic words in your write-up can barely mask it. There are numerous errors in those posts of yours, but I picked out that one because most Nigerians commit that blunder and it's annoying. Instead of taking corrections from someone who knows more than you in that regard, you've elected to further exhibit your cluelessness and crass stupidity. Quite nauseating! You have a long way to go in learning the use of English. The entry you made reference to clearly stated what 'vast' means. It said a great degree or intensity of something. It never suggested you can use it in the sense you used it - 'I am vast'. Referring to yourself as vast instead of whatever knowledge you assume you have. It is a totally wrong English expression. You can have vast knowledge or skill but can never be seen as vast. You can only say 'I am versed'. Get that into your thick skull full of nothing but conceit, Mr. Knowitall aka Mr. Showboater.
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Nairaland General › Re: Drop Your Most Embarrassing Moment - Let’s Laugh A Little by gozzlin: 8:11am On Sep 21, 2019 |
Ishilove: I don't know what my temperament is. I sha know I prepared all week for the ministration, only for the yeye typo to discombobulate me. Hehehe. |
Nairaland General › Re: Drop Your Most Embarrassing Moment - Let’s Laugh A Little by gozzlin: 7:54am On Sep 21, 2019 |
midnighter: As you can see from my last post, I definitely know the difference between "versed" and "vast" and have never pronounced them the same. I took this this up not for the sake of argument, but because I saw something wrong in what you said.
You are taking the statement too literally. The word "vast" can definitely be used in a figurative sense, more akin to the definition you provided in number (4). His meaning can be implied; I am [intellectually] vast enough to know everything about communication. the word "everything" is our context, showing that he could use either "versed" or "vast".
I maintain that there is nothing wrong with what he said. In fact your own construction was a lot clumsier...almost nobody refers to themselves as being "versed" in something, even if it is technically grammatically correct. A more appropriate wording would be "well-versed".
Language is not just about grammar...there is a balancing of grammar, meaning, intrinsic aesthetic and inference...
Human beings are in fact, extremely vast. In the metaphorical sense of the word... I have exhausted all I could muster to tutor you in the previous post but it's obvious you're completely incorrigible and prefer to stick with your Nigerian English. Do carry on. Gracias. |
Nairaland General › Re: Drop Your Most Embarrassing Moment - Let’s Laugh A Little by gozzlin: 7:22am On Sep 21, 2019*. Modified: 7:03am On Sep 22, 2019 |
midnighter: yes it has an entirely different meaning, but its still correct
"Vast" enough to know everything about communication ... like intellectually broad or versatile enough
"versed" enough to know everything about communication...able in terms of vocabulary
both make sense, though what he used was better
if he meant "versed", he would have said "well-versed" enough, since "versed" would sound strange in this context Why do you choose to engage in an unnecessary argument just for the sake of argument? For your information 'vast' can never be used in that sense you are alluding to. Because Nigerians use it in their written English does not make it correct. Nigerians are known to commit the most atrocious blunders in their written and spoken English. It's totally inexcusable. If you read literary works of native English speakers and listen to them speak, you'll never see where they committed the unpardonable of saying 'I'm vast'. That's a wrong English expression. Here is Dictionary.com's definition of 'vast'. adjective, vast·er, vast·est. 1. Of very great area or extent; immense: eg. vast reaches of outer space. 2. Of very great size or proportions; huge; enormous: eg. Vast piles of rubble left in the wake of the war. 3. very great in number, quantity, amount, etc.: Eg. Vast sums of money. 4. very great in degree, intensity, etc.: Eg. An artisan of vast skill. Now here's the same dictionary's definition of 'versed' as an adjective. Thoroughly knowledgeable (about), acquainted (with), or skilled (in) something. I repeat, you cannot be vast. A human being cannot be vast. But you can be versed in something. You can also have vast knowledge or skill but can never be vast. Nigerians make this mistake mostly because most of them do not pronounce English words correctly. They give the same pronunciation to the two words 'vast' and 'versed' and it's really appalling. You do not use English words as you use the words in your language. It has rules that must be strictly adhered to especially in formal settings. If you're in doubt you can always consult your English dictionary. I went to great lengths to type out this elaborate explanation so that you should desist from such atrocious errors in your daily use of English, it leaves a very poor impression. |
Nairaland General › Re: Drop Your Most Embarrassing Moment - Let’s Laugh A Little by gozzlin: 6:33am On Sep 21, 2019 |
midnighter: It can be either "versed" or "vast", either one fits.
Dont know why everybody wants to finish the guy....the stuff he writes is cool... No ma, either cannot fit. Vast has an entirely different meaning. Consult your dictionary. |
Celebrities › Re: Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde And Her Daughter, Princess Hang Out Together by gozzlin: 6:29am On Sep 21, 2019 |
Her mama fine pass her. Her nose wide well well. |
Nairaland General › Re: Drop Your Most Embarrassing Moment - Let’s Laugh A Little by gozzlin: 6:19am On Sep 21, 2019 |
joyfullyjoyous: A woman asked if I would marry her husband. She also asked the husband if he would marry me. I felt embarrassed. The woman died few months later and the husband called to remind me of what the woman said. He wanted us to try having lunch,dinner together to make us get to know eachothrr better. She's from Portharcourt while he's from IMO n me from Ila Orangun,Osun state. Sweetie tell us whether you're happily married to the man now. 
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Nairaland General › Re: Drop Your Most Embarrassing Moment - Let’s Laugh A Little by gozzlin: 6:10am On Sep 21, 2019 |
marvelous000: don't you think I'm vast enough to know everything about communication? or you think i need the opinion of other people to inform me on that? when I write; it's for me and others who are acclimatize with my writing genre or have predilection for it. any other lexical dilettante is very welcome to ignore and pass accordingly, I mean as many as they come, cos I've got no patience for quibbling over my writing choice.
. It's 'versed' not 'vast' Mr. Knowitall alias Mr Showboater.  An adage in Igbo language says: If you know this one, do you know the other one? If you think you've deciphered the bird's illness, have you been able to decipher its ability to fly?
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Nairaland General › Re: Drop Your Most Embarrassing Moment - Let’s Laugh A Little by gozzlin: 5:49am On Sep 21, 2019 |
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Crime › Re: We Caught The Serial Killer While Trying To Kill Another Lady In Hotel - Police by gozzlin: 8:55am On Sep 20, 2019 |
Story.  The hotel management called the police and they arrived immediately to arrest the serial killer and save the victim?  The same Nigerian police you and I know or the LAPD?
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Celebrities › Re: Krystal Okeke Signs New Contract With Amity Global Network by gozzlin: 8:50am On Sep 20, 2019 |
Can you imagine dis kain rubbish news?!
Wetin concern us with this shitty news?!
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Crime › Re: Nigerian Vikings, Cultists Clash At Cheras In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by gozzlin: 11:25am On Sep 18, 2019 |
 I hope that hand falls off. Bastards. |
Crime › Re: Lady Stabs Man To Death Over A Plate Of Food In Bonny, Rivers State (Graphic) by gozzlin: 11:21am On Sep 18, 2019 |
Just cos of 200 naira you will spend the rest of your life in jail.
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Crime › Re: Another Lady Killed In A Hotel In Port Harcourt, CCTV Captures Killer (Video) by gozzlin: 8:29am On Sep 18, 2019 |
Which kind horror film be dis?
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Health › Re: Help With Her Body Odour Or She Will Be Sent Parking by gozzlin: 10:20pm On Sep 17, 2019 |
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Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Nairaland Virgins' Lounge by gozzlin: 7:15am On Sep 17, 2019*. Modified: 6:52am On Sep 20, 2019 |
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Celebrities › Re: Cee-c Rocks Bra Top In Stylish Photos by gozzlin: 9:03am On Aug 21, 2019 |
This girl's figure is to die for.  |
Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Drop Your Number And Location, You Might Get A Date by gozzlin: 8:27pm On Aug 20, 2019*. Modified: 10:30am On Sep 21, 2019 |
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Education › Re: Winners Of The 2019 PZ Cussons Chemistry Challenge (Photos) by gozzlin: 6:59pm On Aug 20, 2019 |
1StopRudeness: To be fair, these competitions are conducted in lagos...northerners are not well known for leaving their territory to come school in the other zones... abi how many of them Dey ur class or school when u were in secondary school??. Coming to compete from far away locations is not only expensive but also dangerous in times like these..... The original post clearly states that it was conducted in different zones; Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt. Abuja is in the North, so northerners should participate. Don't make weak and baseless excuses for them, except you're from there. Northerners are so backward academically and economically and it's not about to change anytime soon. |
Politics › Re: The Moment EFCC Stormed Ambode's Residence (Photos) by gozzlin: 11:27am On Aug 20, 2019 |
 The victimization of Ambode by the stooge and his opolo-eye godfather has begun in earnest. Let's watch as the drama unfolds. I bet it'll be so much fun. 
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Fashion › Re: Buy Her This Leopard Skin Bag- by gozzlin: 6:26pm On Aug 19, 2019 |
Is that a leopard skin?
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Crime › Re: Man Enters His Neighbor's Room, Beats The Wife And Later Carried Her To Hospital by gozzlin: 4:11pm On Aug 19, 2019 |
 For real? |
Sports › Re: Peter Okoye Of PSquare Visits Super Eagles Player Samuel Chukwueze In Spain(Pics by gozzlin: 11:43am On Aug 19, 2019 |
Bobbyunitedfc: Dope song.... Tiwa would have done better on that joint instead of Tenis elder sister what's that her name sef... Big fan of Peter... I beg to differ. Niniola was fantastic in that song. In fact, she was superlative. Her contribution to that song was what made it come out fab. Whenever I listen to that song I can't wait to get to her part of the song. She was simply fantastic. |