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Just watched a Pete Edochie movie where he spoke PIDGIN ENGLISH with John okafor (Mr Ibu).

Based on his movies, I never believed he could speak Pidgin.😯

Some 'Classy' or Posh' or 'Educated' Nigerians, It seem like they do NOT know how to speak Pidgin English.🤨

Is this Really possible?🤔

Yes, it is possible.

Possibly.

Pidgin English is an interesting, unifying language Nigerians should embrace. Like Jamaicans with patois.

I hope to write a book in pidgin someday.

Yes....

My little nephews and nieces can't speak it fluently . Whenever they try to,they always end up making people laugh.......

I was once friends with one Nigerian girl from the Yoruba tribe back in varsity who could neither speak Yoruba nor pidgin... She spoke English as her first language and Sotho as her second language... Both her parents are Yorubas.

I'd be more concerned about a Nigerian who can't speak Yoruba/Igbo/Hausa/etc.

Yes I one of them. I no fit yan tht kind tongue

RealityKings1:
Yes I one of them. I no fit yan tht kind tongue

Lol. Guy you need help bro.

Vinnie2000:
Just watched a Pete Edochie movie where he spoke PIDGIN ENGLISH with John okafor (Mr Ibu).

Based on his movies, I never believed he could speak Pidgin.😯

Some 'Classy' or Posh' or 'Educated' Nigerians, It seem like they do NOT know how to speak Pidgin English 🤨

Is this Really possible?🤔

While it's possible some Nigerians might not be able to speak fluent pidgin English due to certain factors, the bold isn't any of them. The way U even reason tells me the category U fall into but I will not go into that for now. Nigerians who grew up where pidgin isn't spoken normally, will not know how to communicate with it. But any Nigerian that grew up in Nigeria and schooled here, wether they schooled in top notch foreign schools based in Nigeria all their lives and they act like they can't speak at all are nothing but liars and fakers. Those are the ones some of U call "posh" because they can manage some certain level of wealth and then they start acting for u ignorant people. I know stark illiterate villagers that can't speak fluent pidgin but their native languages so this has nothing to do with being posh or uneducated. How can U even equate education to any of that? Lol some of U guys sha really know nothing but thank God for the internet today. It's the same way some who are not even the least enlightened or exposed will tell U they don't or can't eat swallow with hands that it is local or wtv. But the westerners they copy wrongly eat certain foods with hands as it tradition abi etiquette demands. If Ur not a lady probably avoiding eating hand foods because of Ur newly done nails, or those nails that are dragon-like then Ur a very foolish and stupid person. I see them and laugh inwards so hard. Some Nigerians like pretending to be what they can never be or even ready to be

DJ Cuppy, Davido.. both schooled in Nigetia and abroad, both can still communicate well in pidgin and we all know how wealthy there family are..
Even Seyi Tinubu speaks plenti pidgin. This 3 were born and buttered in wealth. So ignore those forming.

dkidd:
While it's possible some Nigerians might not be able to speak fluent pidgin English due to certain factors, the bold isn't any of them. The way U even reason tells me the category U fall into but I will not go into that for now. Nigerians who grew up where pidgin isn't spoken normally, will not know how to communicate with it. But any Nigerian that grew up in Nigeria and schooled here, wether they schooled in top notch foreign schools based in Nigeria all their lives and they act like they can't speak at all are nothing but liars and fakers. Those are the ones some of U call "posh" because they can manage some certain level of wealth and then they start acting for u ignorant people. I know stark illiterate villagers that can't speak fluent pidgin but their native languages so this has nothing to do with being posh or uneducated. How can U even equate education to any of that? Lol some of U guys sha really know nothing but thank God for the internet today. It's the same way some who are not even the least enlightened or exposed will tell U they don't or can't eat swallow with hands that it is local or wtv. But the westerners they copy wrongly eat certain foods with hands as it tradition abi etiquette demands. If Ur not a lady probably avoiding eating hand foods because of Ur newly done nails, or those nails that are dragon-like then Ur a very foolish and stupid person. I see them and laugh inwards so hard. Some Nigerians like pretending to be what they can never be or even ready to be

Yes there are many.

Pls IN THIS POST, WHEN I SAY Nigerians, I mean Nigerians who have lived in the country for a Long time or their entire lives.

Not Anthony Joshua, Tems or Bukayo Saka and the likes.

🌺

I'm a Yoruba guy and I can't speak Yoruba fluently
But I can speak pidgin fluently..

Vinnie2000:
Just watched a Pete Edochie movie where he spoke PIDGIN ENGLISH with John okafor (Mr Ibu).

Based on his movies, I never believed he could speak Pidgin.😯

Some 'Classy' or Posh' or 'Educated' Nigerians, It seem like they do NOT know how to speak Pidgin English.🤨

Is this Really possible?🤔

Go to ogun state, ewokoro they're many

My dad doesn't, he speaks English and my local dialect, he is 79, don't know how and why

awumen:
DJ Cuppy, Davido.. both schooled in Nigetia and abroad, both can still communicate well in pidgin and we all know how wealthy there family are..
Even Seyi Tinubu speaks plenti pidgin. This 3 were born and buttered in wealth. So ignore those forming.

Exactly my point bro

You and long post.

dkidd:
While it's possible some Nigerians might not be able to speak fluent pidgin English due to certain factors, the bold isn't any of them.

The way U even reason tells me the category U fall into but I will not go into that for now. Nigerians who grew up where pidgin isn't spoken normally, will not know how to communicate with it. But any Nigerian that grew up in Nigeria and schooled here, wether they schooled in top notch foreign schools based in Nigeria all their lives and they act like they can't speak at all are nothing but liars and fakers.
Those are the ones some of U call "posh" because they can manage some certain level of wealth and then they start acting for u ignorant people. I know stark illiterate villagers that can't speak fluent pidgin but their native languages so this has nothing to do with being posh or uneducated.
How can U even equate education to any of that? Lol some of U guys sha really know nothing but thank God for the internet today.

It's the same way some who are not even the least enlightened or exposed will tell U they don't or can't eat swallow with hands that it is local or wtv. But the westerners they copy wrongly eat certain foods with hands as it tradition abi etiquette demands.
If Ur not a lady probably avoiding eating hand foods because of Ur newly done nails, or those nails that are dragon-like then Ur a very foolish and stupid person.
I see them and laugh inwards so hard. Some Nigerians like pretending to be what they can never be or even ready to be

Mariangeles:
You and long post.

Lol Maria. Hope U went to church today sha

dkidd:
Lol Maria. Hope U went to church today sha

I did.
Happy Sunday to you.

There are many tho

Yes. Once had a course mate that can't speak pidgin English then in school.

Mariangeles:
I did.
Happy Sunday to you.

Nice
Happy Sunday and first of the month. I sent U something btw. Check am

Vinnie2000:
Pls IN THIS POST, WHEN I SAY Nigerians, I mean Nigerians who have lived in the country for a Long time or their entire lives.

Not Anthony Joshua, Tems or Bukayo Saka and the likes.

How can Tems and Saka appear in same sentence?


Saka never lived here. He's not even a Nigerian


Tems is 100% Nigerian and lived here for the most part

I get your point nonetheless

Gggjhhj:
My dad doesn't, he speaks English and my local dialect, he is 79, don't know how and why

Are you really 100% sure he Can't?

Bcus that's what I also thought of Pete Edochie.

Most persons like ur Dad, when in Hard times or in Danger,
And they decide to speak Pidgin.
They will pieces the Pidgin English ehn, you sef go Fear.

Some Nigerians cant

shinaola21:
🌺

I'm a Yoruba guy and I can't speak Yoruba fluently
But I can speak pidgin fluently..

And there are those who are hard core Yoruba conversationist but at pidgin or English ..zilch

baralatie:
Some Nigerians cant

Have you seen or met one personally?

Bcus those ones you are Assuming Can't, when they will speak the Pidgin, e go Shock you Wella.

Vinnie2000:
Have you seen or met one personally?

Bcus those ones you are Assuming Can't, when they will speak the Pidgin, e go Shock you Wella.

No
Not the way you have put it
In school there were those who found pidgin English odd and dint not understand it all
Take femi and the gang crew ...there were two members who literally did not not speak pidgin but because they were constantly in contact with persons who consistently communicated in pidgin..they were groomed into understanding how it is used and spoken

Many northerners resident in the north cannot speak pidgin.

Vinnie2000:
Are you really 100% sure he Can't?

Bcus that's what I also thought of Pete Edochie.

Most persons like ur Dad, when in Hard times or in Danger,
And they decide to speak Pidgin.
They will pieces the Pidgin English ehn, you sef go Fear.

He can't, we laugh at him when he tries, nigga lived in the village in the early age of his life, probably broken wasn't popular then, I think people in there 70s or 80 years are not popular with pidgin especially if they went to school

I dey speak am wella. It has become part of us. True communication is when the other person understands the message you are passing.