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Typical!

ETT! Lord have mercy.

Hmmmmm......things dey happen sha o....

I visited one Yoruba family in Kwara State and was asking the four year old boy in the house his name. He kept staring at me without saying anything. Eventually his dad said to me that he teaches his children to speak Yoruba first before English!

Royal Roy: Your Username says a lot about you.

Smh

Royal Roy..........

passionate88: Wow. Age doesn't matter when a man wants to be abusive or intimidating. I know of a woman (Police officer) who's older than her husband, she even sponsored their wedding. When their madness starts, the husband beats her with anything he lays his hands on, there was a day he even tore her cloths in the open she had to run inside our house for protection. The man really embarrased the woman.

@Awakullowo, this man is from Akwa Ibom

HHahaha......

passionate88: Jesu!. See when u post. 2:50 am. U no dey sleep?. Or u dey road dey go meeting when u post am?.

She dey Obodo onyibo......

My daughter would be 3 years old on the 30th of this month. She's in nursery one. I was shocked the day she came back from school reciting one-otu,two-abuo,three-ato to ten-iri! I carried her up,hailed her,kissed her.... I was proud of her!

And this school is one of the best in my state. When we went to register her there,the proprietress told us that they don't use British curriculum that they are Nigerians and they use Nigerian curriculum. Truly,I'm not disappointed.

Uredaddy: Permit me to vent a little.

Sometimes I wonder why some people pay good with evil. Why don't we appreciate the things we have, the gold that we have until we lose them. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why am I saying all this, My husby is suddenly afraid that I'll leave him and is being so nice but his fears are written all over him. why do I have this feeling that he not going to change. Before now when I find his misplaced money, I return it back to him even though he's not aware of it and doesn't give me money.
I'm done living my life to please him or anyone else. I doubt if I'll be able to trust and love any man after these experience. I have forgiven him but will not forget in a haste but I'm still struggling to forgive myself.

Dear lord, please heal my heart.

Its ok to let it out. The Lord will heal you of all the hurt you feel now. Its just a matter of time.
Take it easy ok?

Chamackh: Is there anything called Ibo? I hate it when people of Igbo extraction write Ibo instead Igbo. You should be the one pronouncing and writing it properly. Ogwula ka oham n'onu.

No vex o. Na my phone dey write ibo instead of igbo. I don correct am.

Ewekwala iwe.

ileobatojo: Keep your spirits up! God dey.

Thank you....

Ngokafor: I would go with respect not fear.Respect is actually more sustainable than fear..

..@op perhaps he meant respect..a lot of us confuse fear for respect and vice versa...

@CC and Ng, i would have thought so too but my mum told him expressly that I'm scared of him therefore there are certain things i would want to say but simply shut up out of fear. And his response was "if she doesn't fear me,who would she fear".

He repeated it in his father's presence and the man was nodding in affirmation. I told them that it's only God I'll fear and not man. I'd rather respect him.

In essence,he knows what he's saying.

ileobatojo: Kreami, I've been waiting for you to talk about your husband on that other thread since. You've just been dropping bits and pieces sha. Guess you're not ready to tell the full story yet. Anyway, do what you can and keep your
head up but don't compromise your safety if it ever comes to that (hopefully not).

Hahaha ... this woman! I no fit shout o.

The man fit see all these things so no be for my mouth you go hear anything.!

Anyway,i know what to do if push comes to shove.

passionate88: It isn't. Something tells me you are in the habit of arguing with your husband.

If he asks you to fear him, just keep quiet (I knw it's very hard to do that as u are a woman).

Noooo. No be argument. That is his point of view. That a woman should fear her husband. While I'm of a different opinion. If he goes on about it,i simply keep quiet.

Prinuo: I am neither anyone of them.

Prinuo is new in the block.

Feelings hmmm!

Ok o. Welcome.

Ab025: Hmmm......maybe he wants to suprise u wit 2nd wife.......

Lol....

I made out time to read this article on fear and respect.

Respect - Earning respect + Respect vs Fear and Obedience - http://eqi.org/respect.htm

My husband keeps arguing that i should fear him.And asks that if i don't fear him,who would i fear

Me on the other hand,I'm saying that it's only God i should FEAR but RESPECT my husband.Pls house,what do you think

Why do i have a feeling that Prinuo is either Jidegirl12,spongeback or Debrief08



Uredaddy,how far with your project?

Congrats o

Daughters!

The guys get married and face their wives and their wives families! Hahaha.

Chillisauce: Kream-diva, why do you write igbo with ibo??

At post, languages programed for my kids


French -fluent
English - fluent
Igbo- basic
Spanish- intermediate
This would be before their 14yrs of age.

Dutch, portugaise if they are willing to learn, send them on vocational school.

Lol..... na my phone dey cause am.

[quote author=2s£xy]Not in the right frame of mind to comment. Will be back.

Congrats to Kenyattamoore.[/quote]U don comment already nah. Hahaha........

^^^^^ WORD!!!

Hotstepper: It's just so sad especially among Igbos. Someone came to my house and was shocked my son of 1 year plus could understand Igbos nd speaks like Mba etc. He told.me dat us bad cuz eventually he will have igbo accent wen speaking english..imagine. Others say why my son couldn't speak English den was cuz he was confused which to speak lol yet he would tell u, come and bia at da same time. Am even trying to put him in French school. Language is important and it's so sad that u will see couple from da same place yet their kids can't speak

The bolded is very true and sad. Yorubas are proud of their language and culture. Once you see Yoruba people conversing,it must have elements of yoruba in it. Same for the Hausas.

Me i no send. That na why i dey speak my igbo dey go. Oru mgbe anyi ga asu oyibo,anyi asuo ya ofuma.(when the need arises for us to speak English,we speak it very well!)

jennykadry: Lol what is wrong with "hello Aunty how are you?" Hello is a form of greeting you know.....what has "respecting" our cultural values done for our country? Is Nigeria better than these developed countries?

You got called Aunty and you are sad? You should be lucky you got called aunty and not your first name

Lolzzzz... anyway,i think it's because of the way we were taught to show respect!

Nna eh... Unu ga egbukwa mmadu ebe a o.

Ochi atogbuola m ooo

Its sad and rather depressing.

I was conversing with a certain lady and mentioned something in igbo that my 2 year old daughter usually says. She was quick to ask me "hmmm, so your daughter speaks ibo?"

I said of course besides,her daddy insists that all his children MUST speak igbo.

And she just said well,i don't want my children to speak igbo o.

That was the day i stopped communicating with her.


Personally,i see some of those things as acute inferiority complex. How can one not be proud of his or her language,heritage,cultural beliefs etc.....


My SIL's kids would call from UK and just go "hello aunty,how are you?"
No greeting o. Meanwhile,growing up,we were taught to greet our elders. When my hubby asked my SIL,she said that the cultures are different and that nobody greets anybody there!

Ngokafor: Wow! @kenya glad to know you finally made it..good job!..but i think you misunderstood babyosisi's position.She used what is called 'tough love' on you to get you cracking..works all the time.

I'm guessing it was the tough love that made her want to prove babyosisi wrong by mustering courage to leave.

Una do well o.

ifyalways: Tosh ele Darfur

Kreami,ndewo. Kedu ka i mere?
Graviton.Imela. A bum onye Abia steeti,onye ebe ka i bu?

Ify,ekelela m gi otu i si wee nabata m. Abu m nwa afo Abia steeti. Ututu no na Arochukwu local gomenti. Mana Di m bu onye Imo steeti.

Eji m aka na anyi ga ano nke oma ebe a.

spikes C: A company, sole owned, i don't want a business name.
How much

The minimum number of persons that can form a ltd liability company is two. So e no go work!

ileobatojo: They need to move all their Igbo to the culture section or move the ikworikwo talk to sexuality section! Enough with all the Igbo abeg, there are many other readers of this thread. Too much of some thing is not good.

Nne,thank u. You just introduced me to that culture section. Never been there.