₦airaland Forum

macklef: But one more thing, must one be a perfect writter, in terms of punctuations n gramatical structure n tenses to make it in bloging? In other words can i gbagaun sometimes?

ogeoflyf: But you dey use the language collect money.

Awon smellos. . Doesn't change the fact that you tabón shaaa . Strong one for that matter

Xtaceeey: Real african man mentality... Uno even lyk beta tin sef

SB Joji: Shaheed meaning a martyr

SB Joji: Shaheed meaning a martyr

Nigeriakan: what exactly are you driving at by this quoted part? Do you mean that African parents are promitive because they won't allow their female children go for a date? Or that African culture which does not recognize a date (as in the Western sense of the word) is steps behind that of the West that recognizes it?
By the way, What are the culture and tradition that you know which do not allow openness between parents and their offspring. If you know next to nothing about culture, the honourable thing is to never touch it. Rather than say the imaginable in order to make your offshore essay sound acceptable.

mumumugu: Black parents simply cannot accept that their daughter is dating. To them it is like telling them you are having unprotected sex with several men! It is almost as though they are being shamed in public and they have failed as parents. They act like back in the day the father never sat under a tree at the corner waiting for the mother to come out of the gate so they can walk each other to go buy bread at the furthest tuck-shop they could find just to be together for longer. I know tradition and culture tend to hold back openness between a girl child and her parents

Nigeriakan: So Long A Letter! By the way, dear Mr Grammar Pedant, Grouchy Grammarian, Purist and Self-appointed Language Guidian, you must have been baptised in Prescriptive Grammar. If ever you want to moan and groan and wail and fight for a language, steer clear of English. There is no single correct or standard English, there are many, as many as the number of people who speak the language. And only a linguistically deformed individual would judge the intelligence of a person by their spoken language. And how does the so perceived 'grammar abuse' lead to a fall in education standard? Except perhaps it takes the knowledge of all concord rules to know where certain homones are secreted in the human body. You might as well use your un-bastardized grammar to call of ASUU strike.
You must be a language saddist. Or who else would expect a ghetto character to speak the so called standard English? Not even in Shakespear or Hollywood. And judging an actor by the role they play is the beginning of a crash in the standard of education.

favouryemmy: “More grease to your elbow” is a bastardised version of “More power to your elbow”; “Cut your coat according to your size” instead of “Cut your coat according to your cloth”; “Action speak louder than voice” instead of “Actions speak louder than words”; “The devil you know is better than the angel you don’t know” instead of “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t”; and “Half bread is better than none” instead of “Half a loaf is better than no bread.”
These are a few examples of English expressions that have been bastardised as a result of our contact with the
entertainment industry.
From the music industry, entertainers such as Olamide,
Whizkid have changed the mindset of many young Nigerians, infusing slangs – which students remember quicker than a teacher’s teaching or formals – into their songs. Such spirit kills the quality of teaching and learning.
The worst of these people in this century is Funke Akindele. She rose to stardom by her clownish behaviour and expressions. Such expressions and utterances are, in fact, killing the quality of education in Nigeria. In her movie, The Hero, Funke’s grammar was so bad that it made watching the movie very tiresome for the learned and highly lettered ones.
“Who is you?” instead of Who are you?; “I am
deading” rather than I am dying; “This womens” – These
women; “Let me told you” – Let me tell you; “Foice” – Voice; “Shindren” – Children; “Sow” – Show, etc.
Such comic but deadly statements are condemnable.
Such laughter provoking but academically killing grammar should be extirpated completely if Funke must make sense to million of people like me. This melodramatic and bastardised grammar is only killing our youth who watch a lot of home videos. It does not build them. And woe is he who pleases
himself while giving a painless death to other people.
Every lover of success for tomorrow’s leaders should stand up and speak against the grammar abuse by our entertainers.
Although one may not blame them completely, for they are speaking to the best of their knowledge, it is expedient for them to know that a million people rely on their spoken grammar.
Such grammar abuse, in my view, is a naked sign of half
education.

Arosa: I have always thought that ASUU is the devil.

Arosa: Wtf is ASUU is that one of your gods?

Arosa: Are you allergic to information or is that how you say thanks? silly girl.

You want to know if Juliet is celebrating hallowing? obviously yes, don't you celebrate hallowing where you live.

Mercyraheem: Allahuakbar!!! Islam is the total way of life....

sCun: A linguistic whatever shouldn't write as poorly as you do.

agrovick: Hi, pls any reason for trying to link up with linguists? I av a friend who is in her finals and she is a linguist

Hummingbird: A graduate of Linguistics...greatest Uites,we r d first and stil d best