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TAO11:
That Olu317 doesn’t know jack about the diacritics of Yoruba language is well known by all and sundry.

What he wrote is actually with the tone: re-mi-re-mi — that is, “it is calabash you wore [as ‘cap’]”

Wahala.
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PS: It is Ìgbàlódé by the way.

Regards.

Sorry to bother you ma,

Please what does the name "agbabiaka" means?

Thanks.

absoluteSuccess:
Be very careful around that guy, he's targeting you. I'm darn sure, thank God I didn't fall for that either.

The gist is, I'm the "avatar" of one of his bait websites and the moment he tried to lure me, I was not just going to get greedy and claim what I am not.

Later, I did a background research on the site and discovered it's a bait, he knows I know, so he's been waiting for this particular details. I hold it, so he couldn't make progress in that direction.

You know I have my proof and I know how he operates with his secret henchmen.

Hey , good day to you.

absoluteSuccess:
Sorry to bother you ma,

Please what does the name "agbabiaka" means?

Thanks.

Thank you for your out-of-the-blue curiosity/question.

However, I am willing to go out of my way to provide you with answer to your question on 3 conditions:

(1) Does your question have any relevance to the issue of diacritics which your friend is being corrected on?

IF you think yes, then please explain how. Thanks.

(2) IF no, then how much are you willing to pay me so I can go out of my way to give answers to this random question from a random stranger.

(3) Are you willing/able to inform your friend (like I and @macof have done above) that he is terrible at Yoruba diacritics?

If yes, why haven’t you done so to help him go learn it once and for all?

Peace!

absoluteSuccess:
Sorry to bother you ma,

Please what does the name "agbabiaka" means?

Thanks.

This is a serious one. An ancient name though.

macof:
its like this guy really isn't capable of understanding diacritics. Why is it that anytime you write in yoruba it is always wrong. you can write it without any diacritics at all instead of trying to act like you know what you are writing

here is the correct way to write what you wrote here, even though you insulted me i will still teach you free of charge
ọ̀rọ̀ rẹ dàbí ẹni tí kò fẹ́ "jẹ́wọ́ ọ̀bùn rẹ̀

oh and which screenshot? you this guy and your lies this comment of yours is literally your response to my diacritics of "igbalode" you do not have any previous comment responding to that
baba no post anything, he is here saying he posted screenshot


blabing and rants.

but i was expecting this as usual you argue you were not wrong. I never knew you to be a perosn to accept his mistake so i was surprised to see you did not argue about writing "yoruba" with the wrong diacritics. probably because that one is an extremely popular word that you would have to be raving mad to argue there. I mean it is the name of the language and people itself so of course . But who knows maybe you will soon come back to argue that one too

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It is not "Igbálodé"
Igbá means "calabash". dé means "to arrive". Makes no sense. And just by pronouncing this it is so off. what you are saying here means "It is the calabash that arrived".

Go and learn to write yoruba properly mr. man and stop trying to fool people on nairaland

@TAO11, Abohboy, rhektor

Oh yes! You are even 200% correct . But you are even more guilty as a teacher .

This is the greatest joy I have......Laughing hilariously .

Tell me, who among you here has not blundered on diacritic in this platform ?

My stance has always being, that this is not a written thesis. So, why bother when you also fall victim of such.



Therefore, teach yourself or be taught by others because some Yoruba word falls under different diacritics and still with same meaning

Do self appraisal, my dear. For more informtion does your own accent falls within :

1. Yoruba language written in school ?

2. Yoruba language spoken in cities ?

3. Yoruba language spoken as hinterland dialect ?

To buttress my point, which among the word for "I" in your own dialect ?

mọ́
mó
me-mi
mé

Furthermore, how do you explain things to people when you can't remove the speck in your own eyes first before helping others. Instead you complain of specks on other people's eyes? Hypo.....te.


Let me clearly posit here that , whether there is sense in it or not, rather the message has been passed. Albeit the following is for you


"ìgbàlódé"- Correct

Olu: ọrọ̀ rẹ dabi ẹní ti kò fẹ "jẹwọ́ ọbun rẹ.....(not perfect, but better because I ommitted some diacritics)

Macof:ọ̀rọ̀ rẹ dàbí ẹni tí kò fẹ́ "jẹ́wọ́ ọ̀bùn rẹ̀ (worse)

ọ̀rọ̀ ×:
ọ̀bùn ×
rẹ̀×

Yoruba language taught in school:
" ọ̀rọ rẹ dàbí ẹni ti kò fẹ́ jẹ́wọ́ ọ̀bun rẹ."

Olu317:
Hey , good day to you.

Good morning boss.

Hope you had a good night?

TAO11:
Thank you for your out-of-the-blue curiosity/question.

However, I am willing to go out of my way to provide you with answer to your question on 3 conditions:

(1) Does your question have any relevance to the issue of diacritics which your friend is being corrected on?

IF you think yes, then please explain how. Thanks.

(2) IF no, then how much are you willing to pay me so I can go out of my way to give answers to the random question of a random stranger.

(3) Are you willing/able to inform your friend (like I and @macof have done above) that he is terrible at the diacritics of Yoruba?

If yes, why haven’t you done so to help him go learn it once and for all?

Peace!

Thanks for the response.

I expect you to either give it a trial or not, but with all the listed conditions in place, I honestly don't know how to begin, you can always move ahead ma.

Safe yourself the stress.

Lastly, I've once asked you what does "mo d'oko dele danimo" means in Yoruba, of which you gave a good interpretation. You have the indirect meaning, perfectly.

However, danimo is a twisted word and the meaning would have been apparent if you ignore the diacritic. That is, if you go for the direct meaning of the word.

Da-ni-mo (recognize)-someone-known.

The originator of the idiom twisted the the last word in the sentence and made it dánímó instead of dánimò. The change in diacritic turn the word to a code.

Now in that new understanding, "mo d'oko dele danimo" simply means "I have been a serial fornicator until the house of an individual (who recognizes someone known".

By and by, the fellow is saying she has been spotted in an act of fornication by someone who recognizes her. But that drift was not giving in the diacritic except in the word.

This same phenomenon applies in my new question, agbabiaka. Finding out the amazing beauty and unspoken secret in Yoruba word is beyond diacritics and fraternity.

Thanks.

Olu317:
This is a serious one. An ancient name though.

The rule is, never pass the word by, try as much to break it down to pieces and you will find the gem in it.

It's agbabiaka here but other gems are still in the field, you needed this experience to handle the next gem that comes along.

absoluteSuccess:
Good morning boss.

Hope you had a good night?

Sire I did and you ?

absoluteSuccess:
The rule is, never pass the word by, try as much to break it down to pieces and you will find the gem in it.

It's agbabiaka here but other gems are still in the field, you needed this experience to handle the next gem that comes along.

I agree with you. Saving myself of the stress is worth it. Unfortunately, our friends think Yoruba language is entrenched in Oyo's youngest dialect. This is the reason, sometimes I wonder why do we have to tilt against researchable issue.

Today, we have seen false information about the settlement of Yoruba people of ileife, where the identified all of us from our homes at ileife. Although, I know my own lineage to the core, as a result of the way it is held by my family,even if I only emphasise it here online for just identity sake.

Funny as it seems, these my people are even humble to really point to them with such interesting family background at ileife.

Take for instance, Awùjálẹ̀'s ancestry is of Obalufon and not Odua clan even if we are all interwoven amongst ourselve through and through.

Even Olúiwó patrilineal line also is of ọbàlúfọn's side. There are information that were falsely stated by outsiders of Ileife, which dent Yoruba's history.

Even the 1615AD account of Baba Ahmed does not fit in For us as "Yórúbá." Infact, there are too many errors. Even Oranmiyan had children that are older than the ones mentioned on tabloid. Anyway, time will tell.


I salute you sire,

Cheers

absoluteSuccess:
[s]Thanks for the response.

I expect you to either give it a trial or not, but with all the listed conditions in place, I honestly don't know how to begin, you can always move ahead ma.

Safe yourself the stress.

Lastly, I've once asked you what does "mo d'oko dele danimo" means in Yoruba, of which you gave a good interpretation. You have the indirect meaning, perfectly.

However, danimo is a twisted word and the meaning would have been apparent if you ignore the diacritic. That is, if you go for the direct meaning of the word.

Da-ni-mo (recognize)-someone-known.

The originator of the idiom twisted the the last word in the sentence and made it dánímó instead of dánimò. The change in diacritic turn the word to a code.

Now in that new understanding, "mo d'oko dele danimo" simply means "I have been a serial fornicator until the house of an individual (who recognizes someone known".

By and by, the fellow is saying she has been spotted in an act of fornication by someone who recognizes her. But that drift was not giving in the diacritic except in the word.

This same phenomenon applies in my new question, agbabiaka. Finding out the amazing beauty and unspoken secret in Yoruba word is beyond diacritics and fraternity.

Thanks[/s].

All this gymnastic just to avoid telling your friend that he doesn’t know jack about Yoruba diacritics? Lmao.

Olu never see friend.

TAO11:
All this gymnastic just to avoid telling your friend that he doesn’t know jack about Yoruba diacritics? Lmao.

Olu never see friend.

Mr. Teacher, please ride on but do not teach nonsense. in, which you need correct your own friend by removing the speck in his own eyes aswell as yours.

Meanwhile, let me allow enjoy yourself but note, it that there are information you think know but they elude you. Delusion is a mirage,until it wanes.

TAO11:
All this gymnastic just to avoid telling your friend that he doesn’t know jack about Yoruba diacritics? Lmao.

Olu never see friend.

Thanks, bye.

absoluteSuccess:
We are familiar with the story of Elijah in the Hebrew scripture.

There seems to be a Yoruba perspective to it: Aja.

The name Ajagbe may be a repository of history that seek to immortalize the memorial of Elijah in anal of Yoruba liturgy. All that is left of that is a foggy tradition that we may still remember to some extent.

In one of Yoruba's storytelling, its often said that when there is whirlwind, someone can be taken away, and so, no one must get close to an active whirlwind. It is often said that whirlwind may take one away and when one comes back, one becomes very powerful.

The regular whirlwind is 'iji' in Yoruba, while 'Aja' is the one that takes one away that one may return and be very powerful. I want to think the belief is well rooted among ancient Yoruba, hence the name Ajagbe was coined to mean "taken away by whirlwind".

In fact, while throwing water on the whirlwind, the Yoruba often shout thief!! to break the whirlwind before it damages or takes anyone away. Aja is akin to Jah in Elijah, meaning 'El is Jah'. Aja is Yoruba for somewhere in the sky where one goes to become powerful.

Well you wont find Elijah in Yoruba tradition, but you will find a gist or a hint that shows that a man can be taken away by whirlwind unto the sky is tenable in Yoruba tradition, then you can bring the integrals closer to see how the story goes. who learnt from who?

Elijah's ascention is 'Ajagbe' to the ancient Yorubas, although they lost the records, but they kept the foggy idea till date.

Erimoje ni mi,
Omo Sa Aja...

Omo elerin mosa.

Olu317:
I agree with you. Saving myself of the stress is worth it. Unfortunately, our friends think Yoruba language is entrenched in Oyo's youngest dialect. This is the reason, sometimes I wonder why do we have to tilt against researchable issue.

Today, we have seen false information about the settlement of Yoruba people of ileife, where the identified all of us from our homes at ileife. Although, I know my own lineage to the core, as a result of the way it is held by my family,even if I only emphasise it here online for just identity sake.

Funny as it seems, these my people are even humble to really point to them with such interesting family background at ileife.

Take for instance, Awùjálẹ̀'s ancestry is of Obalufon and not Odua clan even if we are all interwoven amongst ourselve through and through.

Even Olúiwó patrilineal line also is of ọbàlúfọn's side. There are information that were falsely stated by outsiders of Ileife, which dent Yoruba's history.

Even the 1615AD account of Baba Ahmed does not fit in For us as "Yórúbá." Infact, there are too many errors. Even Oranmiyan had children that are older than the ones mentioned on tabloid. Anyway, time will tell.


I salute you sire,

Cheers

Great man, good job you.

It's not easy for any mortal to dare the mulky waters you are referring to, but if you think you can and well endowed to have results, I will be there to appreciate your efforts as well as many other history enthusiasts in time to come. Future awaits great results.

If there's anything to study in Yoruba language history and culture, it's already in our hands and this generation must not miss it. It's very important. Already, I've found a niche for myself just as you, can't and won't have all the answers, little is enough for the wise.

A revival will come.

kayusely70:
Omo elerin Mosa

Thank you dearest bro, may the God of heaven bless you and your generation for ever.

Amen.

IF my friends make mistake, I correct them.

Olu317:
Mr. Teacher, please ride on but do not teach nonsense. in, which you need correct your own friend by removing the speck in his own eyes aswell as yours.

Meanwhile, let me allow enjoy yourself but note, it that there are information you think know but they elude you. Delusion is a mirage,until it wanes.

Olu go and learn Yoruba diacritics once and for all.

You didn’t make no mistake, you just don’t know jack about Yoruba diacritics.

Evidence abounds all over Nairaland for that.

Cc: macof, rhektor

Let's now attempt our assignment, @bro. Olu.

A gba bi aka

These are the inherent syllables in our gem of the day. What could the ancient scholars be up to in such a statement?

If we can be patience and careful, we'll figure it out. First, a gba ball is one who plays football in Yoruba. But that's not what the enigma says.

However, it's the closest idea to the enigma. A gba bi aka simply means, "that which spins like round", or better still, "that which rotates like circle".

What the Yoruba call Calabash, the Egun called "Oka". So, you see the mind share, aka is something that folds up to itself.

You can tell your child, lo ka awon aso to sa, kaa po mora won. Fold, arch, curve, spring, these are the alternative use for ka in Yoruba language.

Now for something to "gba bi aka" means, it spins like any of the alternative use of ka. That's the core of the statement. But what could that be?

Anything you can make from the variant meaning of igba, except igba (200, except if the number represent a fold of something with the ancients), that I don't know.

Recall when we were younger and goes to play table tennis, you tell your friend, "jekasare toss spin", that toss-spin defines the movement.

Tossing like spherical object has it, if you stretch it out to make for better comprehension. Now, what are they referring to exactly?

Aye, akamara

When you tell your child to get the clothes, you instructed her to "kamorawon". The ancient Yoruba described the earth as "akamara", something that fold unto itself.

Seems like I made that up, not until you consider the sense in the word "igba" "toss spin". So, the Yoruba seasons are a giving "turn" on a "spin", a "moment".

So, igbalode therefore means "it's the turn that has come". As such, igba is a function of degree in a circumference. Most things identified with the word igba is roundish.

How about epo gbigba? Do you also think that has to do with spherical? Of course. Observe when that happens, the oil forms bubble, to show that it's playing bubble at the top.

And gbaa leti? Igbati olooyi is a kind of a section of the circumference that the arm would turn if not stopped by the cheek.

Back to aye akamara, our ancient scholars knew about the spherical earth. Another culture in the know of this were the Phoenicians.

You were actually right as you once said here. Our founding fathers and the Phoenicians were one. It takes seafaring culture to conclude the earth is spherical.

TAO11:
IF my friends make mistake, I correct them.

Olu go and learn Yoruba diacritics once and for all.

You didn’t make no mistake, you just don’t know jack about Yoruba diacritics.

Evidence abounds all over Nairaland for that.

Cc: macof, rhektor

Kini gbogbo ede-aiye-ede to nlo laarin eyin omo iya mi bayi? Olu317, se eo le fi oro jomitoro oro laarin ara yin lai si itabuku arayin ni? Edakun eje a kiyesi eleyi oooo.

nisai:
Kini gbogbo ede-aiye-ede to nlo laarin eyin omo iya mi bayi? Olu317, se eo le fi oro jomitoro oro laarin ara yin lai si itabuku arayin ni? Edakun eje a kiyesi eleyi oooo.

Someone hates to be corrected even on the most obvious consistent blunder.

TAO11:
IF my friends make mistake, I correct them.

Olu go and learn Yoruba diacritics once and for all.

You didn’t make no mistake, you just don’t know jack about Yoruba diacritics.

Evidence abounds all over Nairaland for that.

Cc: macof, rhektor

Lol ! Okay . Teach me. What do I know ?

But mó mọ̀ pè ọ̀rúnmìẹ̀làà ló bá lori gbogbo ayé ati ọ̀rún.

TAO11:
Someone hates to be corrected even on the most obvious consistent blunder.

Lol. I do not hate to be corrected! How many errors have you made? I chose not to correct you because I flow. Meanwhile it is not about correction rather empty boasting on your path.

However,do not think my above statement degrade honesty? Not at all. Once a written account say so, you guys adopt such as true.

Tell me, are you aware 13 settlements are the settlement of the ancient Ileife? Be honest.

Are you aware awori is not the oldest Yoruba.clan in Lagos state ? There are mysteries beyond you and I. So, be careful.

Olu317:
Lol ! Okay . Teach me. What do I know ?
But mó mọ̀ pè ọ̀rúnmìẹ̀làà ló bá lori gbogbo ayé ati ọ̀rún.

Let’s see how sincere you are with learning:

Your diacritics here is false.

[s]mó mọ̀ pè ọ̀rúnmìẹ̀làà ló bá lori gbogbo ayé ati ọ̀rún[/s]

Are you angry (as usual) for being corrected?

Regards.

Olu317:
[s]Lol. I donot hate to corrected! How many errors have you made? I chose not to correct you because I flow.

However,do not think my above statement degrade honesty? Not at all. Once a written account say so, you guys adopt such as true.

Tell me, are you aware 13 settlements are the settlement of the ancient Ileife? Be honest.

Are you aware awori is not the oldest Yoruba.clan in Lagos state ? There are mysteries beyond you and I. So, be careful.[/s]

You hate to be corrected. That’s fact. ✌

PROOF:
You’re asking if I know what I’ve taught on Nairaland many times.

Just because you’ve been corrected on your multiple, basic blunders. Lol.
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If I focus only on correcting your hallucinations, I will be doing only that (even without your replies) while Benin liars would be having a field day with lies.

Peace.

TAO11:
Let’s see how sincere you are with learning:

Your diacritics here is false.

[s]mó mọ̀ pè ọ̀rúnmìẹ̀làà ló bá lori gbogbo ayé ati ọ̀rún[/s]

Are you angry (as usual) for being corrected?

Regards.

Lol ¿¿¿¿¿? To be angry over what ? Self expression is acceptable in all ramifications. So, be free to posit your view. But corrected me has nothing to do with erros. Like I had mentioned earlier, this platform is not a closed interactive class between lecturers and students.

ìbínu kò dá nkan kan
àgbà tí ó ni súurú
ohun gbogbo l'óni
súurú bàbá iwa

TAO11:
You hate to be corrected. That’s fact. ✌

PROOF:
You’re asking if I know what I’ve taught on Nairaland many times.

Just because you’ve been corrected on your multiple, basic blunders. Lol.
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If I focus only on correcting your hallucinations, I will be doing only that (even without your replies) while Benin liars would be having a field day with lies.

Peace.

My bad? You try. What more can I posit? What do you have on Bini because the ancestor of ogiso dynasty actually came from the Ileife,South West Nigeria.

All these gymnastics for not wanting to accept that you are incompetent? Hmm!

Olu317:
[s]Lol ¿¿¿¿¿? To be angry over what ? Self expression is acceptable in all ramifications. So, be free to posit your view. But corrected me has nothing to do with erros. Like I had mentioned earlier, this platform is not a closed interactive class between lecturers and students.

ìbínu kò dá nkan kan
àgbà tí ó ni súurú
ohun gbogbo l'óni
súurú bàbá iwa[/s]

Anyways, your diacritics above is also false like the earlier one.

[s]ìbínu kò dá nkan kan
àgbà tí ó ni súurú
ohun gbogbo l'óni
súurú bàbá iwa[/s]

Humble ya self, and go learn this thing once and for all.

Olu317:
My bad? You try. What more can I posit? What do you have on Bini because the ancestor of ogiso dynasty actually came from the Ileife,South West Nigeria.

Modify your comment here to reflect clear English so I can reply you accordingly.

nisai:
Kini gbogbo ede-aiye-ede to nlo laarin eyin omo iya mi bayi? Olu317, se eo le fi oro jomitoro oro laarin ara yin lai si itabuku arayin ni? Edakun eje a kiyesi eleyi oooo.

Some are highly stubborn and I do not discourage people from having their filled day. Except vaguar word comes in my direction. But right now, I do not engage out reason..

Meanwhile, Latest Report by scientists on Neanderthal in August-September 2021, claims for everyone with Neanderthal dna is trait of patrilineal ancestry.

Clearly, this statement means that Yoruba were not of Africa . Very shocking

TAO11:
Modify your comment here to reflect clear English so I can reply you accordingly.

I do not understand "My bad ?" or Ileife origin of Ogiso dynasty ?

TAO11:
That Olu317 doesn’t know jack about the diacritics of Yoruba language is well known by all and sundry.

What he wrote is actually with the tone: re-mi-re-mi — that is, “it is calabash you wore [as ‘cap’]”

Wahala.
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PS: It is Ìgbàlódé by the way.

Regards.

Yeah it could also mean that as you've translated.

The "ìgbà" there refering obviously to "period" not calabash or round or turn spin

Anyway, normally it's a small case that anyone can learn from. Nobody is saying we should be above mistakes or someone else doesn't make mistake or might not even know.. But being able to be humble and honest enough to take correction is important

Olu317:
[s]I do not understand "My bad ?" or Ileife origin of Ogiso dynasty ?[/s]

What are you typing? What is the point you’re trying to make? And what are you responding to? What’s your comment’s relevance?

Anyone can type anything; e.g. “Seun owns Nairaland”.

But how is such relevant to the point here. You get it?

Always think relevance. Okay? Good boy.