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BlueRayDick:
Did u see where I mentioned polytechnic and monotechnic in my initial post?. ..... And yes, some so called graduates couldn't communicate effectively with their fellow graduates in the Queen's language. You might think it's a not true, probably because you have conditioned your mind that your tribe men can't be wrong, but any other third party who has been privileged to experience what I experienced in that part of the country will affirm it to be true.

Just imagine. So you are the only Southerner with this 'privilege'. Stop spreading lies just to score some cheap inconsequential points.

Queen's English, how many of your "educated" folks speak that English. Even on nl, how many of these "educated" graduates write in good English?

lepasharon:
You don't say!?...*straight face*

What's this one saying? Is this English?

lepasharon:
Not Allah

Then what pls?

NASTYNASOSO:
HMMMM
I wonder why i still feel there is the need for me to EDUCATE you.
From time memorial Medical Researches,science and technology was preserved in various languages it might surprised you that all that you claim were first documented in ARABIC.
Are you insinuating that all the advancement of the Germans, Scandinavians,Polish, Russians,Japanese and French were all documented in English
Please you need to upgrade yourself by going to a regular school i recomend going to the North were they dont sort lecturers, be less assured you will start behaving like a well educated lady.

U dey mind dem?

After bribing their ways through, they will come and start making noise about education bla bla bla.

Their terrible grammar and poor diction speak volumes of their extremely corrupt educational systems.

I have had personal encounter with most of them and honestly, as I have earlier stated, they are just the proverbial empty barrels.

Give them (graduates) tasks as simple as writing internal memoranda, you will end up writing them yourself. Nonsense.

lepasharon:
Hausas on this thread think they are pro-african but pro- Africans don't worship Allah.

And what is the religion of the "pro-africans/pro-Africans" pls?

lepasharon:
I don't speak Pidgin

Good.

But I do and I learnt it from your people.
That is the predominant language which you mistake for English.

Pidgin is not learnt in the classroom and its understanding doesn't suggest education.

ariesbull:
Why the thread ?

Read the last statement of what you quoted.

Pidgin2:
[s]So you don't know what is wrong with that statement? Okay, take it as an assignment and come back with your response. I can't continue correcting your errors[/s]

Sharrap.

Nothing to correct there, otherwise, correct it or stfu.

I repeat, you lots are bunch of noise makers.

lepasharon:
Nope. Hausas can't speak English like Southerners, thats the point

Oh! I see! You are learning fast, good student.

Now, next topic.

Is it the Pidgin your people speak on the streets that you mistake for English? Is Pidgin spoken in The States or England?

BlueRayDick:
You really do not want to engage me in an intellectual discuss...... What I wrote up there might seem bigotry, but believe that was exactly how it happened, and yes majority of those in my camp were Hausa language speakers, communicating with them in English was what u call herculean task... .

I'm a Hausa man and I attended all my schools in the North, and for you to say you cannot discuss with a graduate in English language is the height of lies. They may have some faults in their spoken English, agreed, (and same obtains in all tribes) but unable to communicate? A very big lie.
If you tell me some secondary school pupils can't speak good English, I won't argue but this one is just not true.

lepasharon:
Am I lying?

Wrong English, that's the point.

lepasharon:
Professor, how could you not know what I meant?

That's not English, though English texts.

lepasharon:
They still speak better than hausas

There she goes again.

lepasharon:
Obviously I don't write a cover letter in text speak

Whatever this means.

Well, proper nouns are not spelt with initial lower case letters and you have been doing that repeatedly.

In the light of the forgoing, do you have any justification for pointing fingers?

lepasharon:
Again, my english is fine. Direct ur corrections to the OP. If a language is worth speaking, it is worth speaking well.

Again, correct this one. If a language is worth writing, it is worth writing well.

Pidgin2:
Hahahahahahahahaha " Some of you lots"

And what's wrong with that? Or is the expression beyond you?

Pidgin2:
[s]Hey, yours is obviously worse than mine, besides typing with a phone can be tasking but you have made numerous mistakes yourself

Check this out, "To think that this is the same person who has been posting about English, is amusing isn't it?"

Your sentence was wrong. Using "Can be very be amusing" is misplaced in that sentence rather you should say "Is amusing"

There you go. I hope you have taken note of your mistakes[/s][/b]

Sharrap and stop changing my intended message in the name of correction.

When has the use of Auxiliary Verbs become that strict?

If I say "it can be amusing" and you say "it is amusing" what makes yours right and mine wrong from grammatical point of view?

As far as I'm concerned, you have just succeeded in throwing your ignorance to the surface.

Pidgin2:
Aggression is your way of life, we know your people very well. So now, buzz off, you aren't worth another sensible response

Did I invite you b4 u threw rubbish into my mention?

Yes, for the correction, you don't use the lower case letter 'i' for the first person singular. Therefore, it should be "I'm..., " not "i'm...".

Meanwhile, I'm not to teach basic English on this forum but some of you lots who can't piece up few words to make simple correct sentences are just too noisy.

rufaikoko:
To a typical southerner, development is ability to speak, dress and think in English. I don't care to be perfect in English.

That is what they think.

But then, do they even speak English? Is it not Pidgin they speak? Is Pidgin English? One confused empty barrel was telling me that Southerners who speak Pidgin can speak English as well, can anything be farther from the truth? Most of us have stayed in those places and we saw these things with our eyes, hear them with our ears but they are telling some lies pulled from their a_ss.

blues2022:
Who gives a fuvck about your arrogant position. We know that you guys are encoded to be extremist in your belief and conduct, so I'm not surprise. Ever wonder why the country is on perpetual retrogression, because of your northern oligarch hold on politics with zero tolerance for liberal ideas.

My problem with some of you noise makers is that you are not even good in practising what you preach. Now, just look at your English. Funny enough, you point fingers.

Pidgin2:
You're saying this because we have the same opinion on this issue, i'm always logical

English expert.

Pidgin2:
[s]This is the attitude you use to deceive your ordinary folks. You defend their disadvantage as if your life depends on it but behind closed doors you obtain the education and master the language you criticize lol

I heard El Rufai is aiming for his PhD and for your information, he will be taught in English and not Hausa

www.nairaland.com/3688290/nasir-el-rufai-studying-phd-holland[/s]

Sharrap.

Go and 'liberate' your society from its numerous social ills before thinking of who next to 'liberate'. Btw, Is this the explanation to your phantom "Pidgin speakers can speak English"? Now buzz off my mention.

lepasharon:
My english is fine, I did not get my tenses wrong and make grammatical errors like the OP. It was easy for me to be understood. I am typing on a phone, hence no apostrophes..

Okay, correct this one.

Pidgin2:
Americans, British, Canadians, Australians speak good English, take a look at where these countries are in major world ranking, meanwhile of all the places where Hausa is predominantly spoken, where are they in any major world ranking?

Of cause Hausa is important too but it is almost a crime to rate the language at per with English.

No one said you shouldn't speak Hausa, all we are saying is that undermining English language as it is being done in the North is a recipe for backwardness and disunity in Nigeria

And to think this is the same person talking about English can be very amusing.

Pidgin2:
[s]Our "likes" will help liberate your poor masses who have consistently been deceived by your elites. If you get enough of our "likes" we can begin to teach you lot how to get back all the things that have been stolen from you. It is your common people that are being killed in areas where they settle, it is them who will need an interpreter in any English speaking country, no southerner who speaks even Pidgin fluently will have difficulty understanding English any where, take note.

If you're not happy with what the OP posted then why remain on this thread mentioning almost all the posts, you can just ignore it and allow those your tribesmen and women who are tired of being taken for idiots by your elite to learn.


Pride comes before a fall[/s]

Push those your likes up ur a_ss 4 all I care. Or better still, use all ur education to solve the numerous evils for which ur places have been identified with; robbery, prostitution, armed robbery, rituals, human and drug trafficking.

Hahahahha, "all Southerners who speak Pidgin can speak English" , go and say that to the marines. I have stayed in those places for years and I can't be furnished with lies when I have first hand information.

I'm on this thread not because I like it. Rather, I stay glued to the thread I don't like because of lots like you.

BlueRayDick:
So many funny polytechnics and monotechnics in the north. I remember during my NYSC camping back in the north, I just dey see different school certificate , some no even get better letter head. Some names just weak me,....And to think most of them only communicate in Hausa fluently, talk small English now dem go dey look u like cow head ni.

You that understand English, pls re-write this ur post in good English. For your information, majority of mushroom universities with their funny names are in the South.

https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/see-list-of-illegal-universities-in-nigeria-has-declared-by-nuc/&ved=0ahUKEwiTq9_28t3SAhUJtI8KHachD2YQFggnMAU&usg=AFQjCNFvPEFvCdWHOInoUTrOrXtrIWYvmw

Mr English, which one is "small English"?
Also, are you saying that the majority of NYSC members in the North are Hausas?
Dude, this your story defies common sense.

fanficgirl:
If Hausas want to speak Hausa only, let them form their own official country and Hausa as the official language. Until then, English reigns.

Is it the Pidgin you speak everywhere that you call English? Most of you cannot even speak English and you are here shouting "English reigns".

blues2022:
Extremism at its peak. You see the reason why you guys are not liked?

And who is begging for your "likes"? What will your "likes" or lack of it change? I'm an Abokii and I'm not happy with what the op posted because your like or hatred doesn't change a typical Abokii.

ipain:
yeah... so says the same person who brought the "American History" into discussion.

That is how incoherent they are. While addressing one issue, they keep jumping from one to the other and when you come up with yours they tell you it is irrelevant. Bunch of confused lots.

ipain:
God bless you. I didn't even see this before I commented on same position. It's pathetic that we strive so much to be more English than an English man.

And the annoying thing is that they don't even speak English. Is it not pidgin they speak everywhere? Is pidgin English? Do you need to go to school to understand pidgin? Do the Americans and English understand pidgin? I have stayed in Delta and Rivers states, is it not pidgin they speak on the streets? Go to any of these Eastern states, u will hear different versions of pidgin and that is what they call English.

Saved.

Jessestunch:
Those this even sound right? I must be governor.. Them finally give you the thing.. You run leave governance go abroad for PhD.. Meanwhile primary and secondary schools in your home state are in rubbish state..

Oga seun, this thing is getting too much, pls do something.