Saintsquare: De thing no do me anyhow,just saying ma mind.You make money from correcting gbagaun,so?.I did not see any correction of gbagaun in this topic but de opposite.

I make money from correcting gbagaun, so I am happy in my job and very fulfilled. And in my original post, I offered to help the guy 'write right'.

Cultured: @mortee

I think you need to educate yourself better before assuming the role of an English language perfectionist .The last time I checked , the right way to write the following words are either " name calling or name-calling " not "namecalling" ,as you have severally written on your comments above .

Thanks, poster. It feels good to see that out of the comments I have severally written above, you could only pick out the absence of a small dash. My clients definitely won't leave due to this. Right?

Saintsquare: This topic doesn't make any sense,trying to ridicule someone to gain cheap popularity.Your mates are making good cash with there so called gbagaun,you are still in your mother's house chasing your fellow brothers with grammatical error,I hope you earn a life in doing so.You could have easily corrected him,but you rather draw undue attention to yourself @ de victims expense,BIG F**L.

Uncle bros, how the thing take do you?
I make good cash from correcting gbagauns that people write and I have referees in case you want to check.
And yes, I started from my mother's house but it has taken me beyond there to someplace cool and great.
And there is no victim here since you can't even trace the post to a particular source.

Awoofawo:
Well said o jawe! Even some white people spoken and written english that is most worst than this one..... BTW english isn't my our mother tongue, so free the guy joor. Did the fact that they don't use english as official language in China, Korea, Japan, Germany, Russia etc has any avert impact on technological and economical advancement/development of those countries?! Moreover, se na grammar go put food for your table abi what you sabi do wit your hand and head?! Op go siddon for one corner jawe!

Na grammar dey put food for my table oooo, and na my hand and head I dey take do am too. Then sometimes, na one corner for my room I dey siddon do the work.

GEJ & P.FOOD:
@mortee, Is English your language? Remember its another mans native language. Does knowing English determines someone success?
Please get a life..SLOWPOKE!

See, it's namecalling that I am not so down with. About English and native language and success, read all my earlier comments.

DJDOLA: mtchewww....wats is d meaning of dis on nairaland....no body above mistakes..even if some1 is gradaute thats does not mean u can not made a mistake in writing...some idiot copy some1 post and paste it here all 2 make fun of him that he gbagaun even d whites do gbagaun...u ur self thats said a nigeria graduate gbagaun can u write words without cheaking it before posting....go 2 china and see go 2 india go 2 france go 2 brazil even american not all of them can write...pls stop mocking people for there mistakes....if u dont have work 2 do....GO AND WASH TRANSFORMER MUMU

#surprised# Even you? Yes, I check and not "cheak" my post over and over again to be sure I did not "made" a mistake in writing. But obviously, you didn't recheck all you wrote here. And I am not mocking people for "there" mistakes, I am only advertising the work I have to do which is to help people 'write right'!

toprealman: Why not help the OP 'write right' rather than make him/ her an object of ridicule.

You are getting it all wrong. If I had seen an indication that the person who wrote that comment on a post is a budding writer, believe me, I would have offered my 'write right' service free of charge.
And it's because of this ridicule that I didn't add the link to the post. Imagine people sending friends requests to the guy on facebook just to insult him.
Even as the guy may not know what is happening here because of him, I feel bad that some of you are making it look like I attacked his person. I am just like a grammar police - what I see and write about has no personal beef attached to them. I am only doing my job, sir, ma.

Blackteeth: And how do you know he is a graduate? Is speaking perfect English the way to know who is a graduate or not?
Please my people, English is just a language. It is never an achievement speaking flawless English.
Our counterparts overseas are busy researching in the laboratories and we are here researching English to speak flawlessly.
Nonsense.

If our counterparts overseas submit their research proposals in this kind of English, I doubt they would be given the chance to search in the first place, not to talk of research.

I am also sure that any undergraduate that submits his thesis' proposal to his supervisor this way will spend more than an extra year in school - except he pays someone to write the project for him.

Okiki_Oluwa: Kwah! Kwah! Ka! Ka! Ka!
Op, this thread got me cracking till the Xmas Chicken I just bought from Mammy Market fly komot. I m now pursuing it.

Eh yah! Sorry o! Hope you eventually caught the chicken sha.

control_seven: Typical of Nigerians! We always overlook the message and attack the messenger.....Nawaaoooo!

It wasn't an attack on the messenger, bros, as I can't recall calling the guy names at any point. It read more as a joke to me. I got his message clearly, but it would have sank in more if he wrote it in simple and correct English, and I wouldn't have been giggling as I did reading it.

doofanc: Where's d link to d original post?

I strongly suspect d writer was merely fooling around, trying to attract attention. Its easy to see deliberate mistakes

Sadly, it is not an attention seeking post. If you had said it is an avenue to advertise my editing and proofreading services, maybe I would have agreed to that.
About the link to the original post, I deliberately didn't include it because it is a comment on a friend's post on facebook. Putting the link will definitely show the person's name, and before you know it, it could become messy; which I don't want.
The post is exactly as I saw it, no additions except for the quotation marks at the beginning and the end of the post.

frankie121: Its really pathetic. Who do we blame? the school system or the individual who refused to be educated, maybe both

My brother, sometimes methink speaking and writing in correct English is inborn and not something you learn. But then, a montessori school proprietoress once told me that by the age of 6, it is established how bad or good a child will be in speaking and writing English. I don't know how she got her deductions, but it made me believe that the foundation matters - the home and the kind of school a child first attends.

Ezeufi: Is he a graduate in english language? Since when has putting together sentences correctly in a foreign language become a measure of someone's intelligence or competence?

Why do english people themselves (including graduate) use phrases like "it wasn't wrote down", "I don't guarantee nothing"; and scottish people even say "how is you?"

Take your slavish mentality back to where you belong.

Oboy, e never reach namecalling levels, plsss. Putting together correct and coherent English became a yardstick to measure intelligence and competence since we all agreed that English Language is our lingua franca.
Ask yourself, if English is not important, why are we being taught almost all subjects in English? Why do we write our exams in English? Why do we have to speak and actually practise to be fluent in English when we have to face interview panels?
With the number of local dialects we have in Nigeria, it only makes it easy if we speak one common language which from generations past has been English.
Stop being deliberately antagonistic as usual and let's call a spade a spade.

Umartins1: Can Lil Wayne write Yoruba?

It will also be a shame if the late D. O. Fagunwa wrote and spoke bad Yoruba. Just as it will be a shame if an English teacher does not know what vowels are...

Olodo 1: Can a chineese graduate write english fluently

A "Chinese" graduate may not write English fluently if he was not taught in English. But for a country where we claim English is our lingua franca - our language of trade and communication - it is only expected that we are proficient in it in all areas, especially in writing and speaking. It will also be a big shame if a Frenchman speaks or write poor French...

boron10: He must be a graduate of LAUTECH

Abeg o, let's not begin to call names or ascribe it to tribe, school, religious belief, and the likes.

musKeeto: And what's the point?
That Nigerian graduates can't write English?

The point is from "A" Nigerian graduate. I only made reference to one Nigerian graduate. But then, another point is quite a number of Nigerian graduates can't write what they speak.

Odunnu:
LMAO. The MOD here will handle it.

#smiles# Aii!

virtuoso01: This is an exact opposite of Patrick Obahiagbon.

One has too much grammar and language theathrics and the other one has very poor language coordination.

And people actually clicked "Like" after reading his post! Well, maybe what my kid brother said about people liking a post without actually reading it is true after all.

Larry-Sun:
A graduate? Oh, goodness! He should be flogged.
Evidently, the guy isn't a writer.

As in...serious flogging o.
As long as he has a group/forum where he writes incessantly about social vices and the need for change, he is a writer. And no graduate, either a writer or not, has an excuse for being this baaaadddd.

It must really be a joke for you to laugh this much. But which section is it supposed to be?

I came across this post today and I could only shake my head. I want to believe it's a joke, but if not, there is a solution - I am "krosdot", I help you "write right".

"Dino Melaye outstanding personality in Nigeria, I am 100% disagree with you. The questions are, what was Melaye do when he was in the National Assembly? Why now he realised that Nigerian leaders are all corrupt? Why suddenly everyone are corrupt before him?

I don't believe any one deserved such an honour now in Nigeria. Excerpt the very cheap buy out they usually paid to National media's such as the best governor of a year.

Melaye is just a shoddy material who Intent selling his name to the public for cheap recognition. Where did Melaye got the money to buy #50M car he drove. This was an idiot accused of many things this year! Melaye doesn't fought for Nigerians interest rather, he is selling out his name for quick recognition.

Though he lead most of the protests around in Abuja, he should put rigorous effort to tell Nigerians he is fighting for National interest because it is very suspicious he is out there looking for own personal cake as usual.

Recently, I had notice that Nigerian media's are also indulged into corruption because they refused to tell The nation how bad the officials are. Most government own media's are been chain & entangled by some state governors in which they failed to report what ought to. We thank God social media are now doing good job.

Nigerians no longer waited for agency such as AIT to tell them what is happening in our government. It is only massive protests would deliver this nation from evil leaders who mostly were indoctrinated to destroy Nigeria's in the name of religious and political acrimony. Nigerians would be liberated soon."

De_ Law:


in a nutshel, get a life and nxt time, try to write simple and comprehensive sentences. Luv ya

If the above words are not simple and comprehensive enough for you, then indeed, English na bitter lemon...

Angel Mi, Maale, and Mama Mi - for all her three phone numbers.

ba7man: This lady can lie!!!....Don't belive everything you hear.

I'm not even interested in her lies or not. But when she would rather buy a 68,000 Euro bag instead of giving back something substantial to the society, and even admitting she doesn't have plans to do anything to affect lives positively, just because she claims to have ran a fantasy modelling school, only portrays an unserious element who is only concerned about herself. Check the number of 'I' in her sentences.
And imagine that she stopped the so-called modelling academy because she quit modelling. Do schools or even companies close down because the founders retire? Give me another zobo jo!

free2ryhme:



@ jobberman u sent this to my mail and you come on nairaland to post work-from-home-jobs abi... Hypocraze.. You success stories are fraud and fake .. I dare anyone to come on NL and tell he/she got a job through jobberman.... Nonsense

My best friend got a job through jobberman since last December and he still works there till tomorrow. Do you need any further confirmation?

rick.ross:



Hahaha this man and propaganda. If he is really controlling traffic how come plenty security/bodygaurds dey around him? Is he doing anything special?
By the way, how much do they pay you for all these stuwpid reports?

And how come we don't appreciate the little efforts our leaders make, but keep asking for their heads on what they didn't do. Whether publicity, propaganda, or whatever you call it, the important thing is that he did it. As for the bodyguards, the fact that he chose to serve as a traffic warden does not take away his being a governor. Imagine a report of Obama doing something like this, we all would have posted the picture on our facebook walls and caption it "Which of our Naija leaders can do this?"

azpeculiar: Almost a 1000000 members? With members having miltiple IDs, the true membership is closer to 3/4 of that figure!

The multiple IDs shoud not be blamed on Seun but on members who find it difficult to be sincere in their dealings. He took a bold step and no matter the rating he gets today, the important thing was that he started something legal and useful for almost all age groups; not yahoo-yahoo.

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