₦airaland Forum

amakufrancis:
I see, everyone has his or her brain of reasoning

Gej till 2019

Johnsinia:
swear u ve never stole b4 and corrupt as rotten as maggot and see how thunder will strike u b4 night fall.

Smartestelvis:
yes jst like aw ur brain couldn't help u understand dat u r jst a blind follower loyal 2 a clueless dog dat cant even feed himself

2undexy:
Oga Jona, i dey fear u oo walahi. Coming from the horses mouth himself, it shows the absurdity and unquestionable like act of the presido.

Kick out Jonathan and Kick in Buhari.

Akinz0126:
. So the transformation that has taken place in Nigeria is not enough abi?Electricity transformation,Educational transformation,Corruption transformation,Health sector too is transformed already Thanks for the indefinite strike embarked upon by our hospitals.As if that is not enough, Poverty also experienced transformation During Jonah administration high rate of unemployment is another transformation the worst of it all,is terrorism chai Jonah you never taya?abeg enough of all the transformation already Jonah start assembling your bags and baggages.Enough of all the holistic transformation ojare...

Sanchez01:
Funny! We've had this man preaching transformation with us for how many years He keeps preaching transformation when the only obvious thing being transformed is their local and foreign bank accounts. Transformation ko, transformer ni.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Corruption is not only stealing, forging of certificate is corruption, lying under oath is also corruption. So stop fooling yaselves and ask d president if he had fufill those oath he made

Smartestelvis:
lol, well said, bt i prefer d word push in gmb,coz only a dog like gej deserves d kick

Ngwakwe:
Some so-called intellectuals are becoming mentally redundant.

1. The comment was a direct quote by the President in reference to a speech made by the Chief Justice of the federation.

2. Where I come from, a thief and a corrupt person is not the same so also is it in many parts of Nigeria.

We assume that Abomination is higher degree of Sin hence the Abominable needs to be ostracised.

3. In communication (syntax and semantics), the understanding of the recipient is/should be the target of the speaker to avoid defeating the purpose of the information delivered.

Let's stop flogging the dead horse. There is no mis-communication in the explanation of the President rather what we have are bunch of hate mongers who not only show their stupidity in attacking everything the President represents as a manifestations of the absolute resentment and antagonism.

Sanchez01:
Funny! We've had this man preaching transformation with us for how many years He keeps preaching transformation when the only obvious thing being transformed is their local and foreign bank accounts. Transformation ko, transformer ni.

kennyjodeci:
Siddon your lazy a ss for your house dey wait Jonathan make him bring job come meet you for house, lazy man, nor go hustle to make a good living......see as una dey talk about this power thing as if na Jonathan regime e start....until una show me previous Nigeria Head of state who is better than gej then I will start listening to you guys, then I may even follow una dey shout CHANGE

Segeggs:
you sit in front of a laptop to call brilliant lawyers like fred agbaje a redundant fellow just cos he exposed the clueless one's lies. Are you anyway near them in brilliance? Men, they took your boss to the cleaners.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Corruption is not only stealing, forging of certificate is corruption, lying under oath is also corruption. So stop fooling yaselves.

amakufrancis:
abeg go sleep

2undexy:
see this olodo, y did we elected him in the first place? To provide 4 the welfare of the society abi, which he did none.

If we are to apply logical reasoning to it, A president suppose to be at the beck and call of its citizens. Jonathan should even be at our doorsteps calling us 4 job, not the other way round. Ogbeni comot 4 dier jarwe, u no nothing.

Make i sip my kpami before sum1 go kill me with ignorance

dre11:
Stealing is a subset of corruption...... Because corruption is a universal set that encompass all (dishonesty, unscrupulousness, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, crime, criminality, wrongdoing; bribery, venality, extortion, profiteering, payola; informalgraft, stealing, grift, crookedness, sleaze)


So trying to separate the two is just like trying to cover for ones goof at a point in time

Sanchez01:
[b]Ngwakwe, I beg to disagree with your assertion. I wouldn't have responded to your post if the syntax/semantic ish never came up.

What is Synatx: In a layman's definition, it refers to a branch of linguistics which governs the rule of language language

What is Semantics: It's also a branch of linguistics which refers to meaning in respect to symbols, words, phrases and what they mean.

Having clarified these two branches of linguistics, it would therefore be right to say your inclusion of Syntax in the discourse is flawed since the utterance of the President does not beg for linguistic analysis.

Therefore, a thief in EVERY part of the world is as a result of corrupt/soiled/perverted upbringing/personal conviction. Hence, your assertion of where you come from is again not accepted.

That someone sins in Christendom is the same as committing an abomination before God. And that would imply that for you to do something abominable means that you have flouted (sinned or gone contrary to) the set rules of the land, which again makes the two the same.

In your quest to defend the President, it would also be right to say that the President lacks the will to communicate effectively. Hence, the infamous quote you're trying to defend is 'Pragmatically' and 'Stylistics' interpreted, rather than depend on other part of the text/discourse for meaning.

What then is Pragmatics: This is a branch of linguistics which studies how CONTEXTS contribute to meaning or how a language is used in a CONTEXT.

And Stylistics? This deals with the study of texts/speech/utterance in regard to their tonal style


The concept of communication in this regard is well established and one would not need to put bits and pieces together to understand what the President means. While we're trying to create further argument between bad and evil, please note that another infamous phrase of the President; "How much did Jim Nwobodo stole?" is also to further expatiate that the President is a man of corrupt values, morals and would still go on to defend this shameful claim of his at the international scene if given a chance. I spent 4 years studying the branches of linguistics and would gladly analyze every speech of the President to prove my claim.

Abeg, let's enjoy politics [/b]

dre11:
Stealing is a subset of corruption...... Because corruption is a universal set that encompass all (dishonesty, unscrupulousness, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, crime, criminality, wrongdoing; bribery, venality, extortion, profiteering, payola; informalgraft, stealing, grift, crookedness, sleaze)


So trying to separate the two is just like trying to cover for ones goof at a point in time

amakufrancis:
Bomb day your Head.

Sanchez01:
[b]Ngwakwe, I beg to disagree with your assertion. I wouldn't have responded to your post if the syntax/semantic ish never came up.

What is Synatx: In a layman's definition, it refers to a branch of linguistics which governs the rule of language language

What is Semantics: It's also a branch of linguistics which refers to meaning in respect to symbols, words, phrases and what they mean.

Having clarified these two branches of linguistics, it would therefore be right to say your inclusion of Syntax in the discourse is flawed since the utterance of the President does not beg for linguistic analysis.

Therefore, a thief in EVERY part of the world is as a result of corrupt/soiled/perverted upbringing/personal conviction. Hence, your assertion of where you come from is again not accepted.

That someone sins in Christendom is the same as committing an abomination before God. And that would imply that for you to do something abominable means that you have flouted (sinned or gone contrary to) the set rules of the land, which again makes the two the same.

In your quest to defend the President, it would also be right to say that the President lacks the will to communicate effectively. Hence, the infamous quote you're trying to defend is 'Pragmatically' and 'Stylistics' interpreted, rather than depend on other part of the text/discourse for meaning.

What then is Pragmatics: This is a branch of linguistics which studies how CONTEXTS contribute to meaning or how a language is used in a CONTEXT.

And Stylistics? This deals with the study of texts/speech/utterance in regard to their tonal style


The concept of communication in this regard is well established and one would not need to put bits and pieces together to understand what the President means. While we're trying to create further argument between bad and evil, please note that another infamous phrase of the President; "How much did Jim Nwobodo stole?" is also to further expatiate that the President is a man of corrupt values, morals and would still go on to defend this shameful claim of his at the international scene if given a chance. I spent 4 years studying the branches of linguistics and would gladly analyze every speech of the President to prove my claim.

Abeg, let's enjoy politics [/b]

amakufrancis:
guy you like it or not, Gej will win coming march

We need TRANSFORMATION

shaqhead:
Guy chop double knuckle...u too much! Their semantic gymnastics wont confuse us-atlist we have u in d house...u r smiling shey..i will gladly analyze to prove that ur I.Q is somwia close to mine...lol

Bright2:
[s]Can you categorically tell me that some one who use your memory card with your consent & got it corrupt is the same thing with some one who stole your memory storage card without your consent?

English is English world wide,

My memory card got corrupted is different from my memory card got stolen! I don't need any lawyer to interpret that to me.[/s]

babyfaceafrica:
lol...nicely put...am a linguist, graduated from unilag last year...you are so on point...God bless you

ayindejimmy:
I beg to defer a bit. the comment was not a direct quote of Justice Mustapha. the comment was in in reference to what the Judge told Gej. that most cases of corruption brought before him were stealing. Gej never quoted the judge saying ...'stealing is not corruption. ' Gej said that himself.
Be that as it may, how I now understand is comment is that corruption is as been seen as a mild form of stealing in Nigeria. so its better we say someone that stole is a thief rather than say is corrupt. cos saying he's corrupt will only make it seems less grieve.
well, Gej should have previously say...Not all corrupt is stealing. with that we would have known that not all cases of corruption is stealing.
but by saying. ..stealing is not corruption the interpretation it gave was ..not all cases of stealing is corruption. which is absolutely not true.
All stealing is corruption bit all corruption is not stealing. Gbam!

kennyjodeci:
Why did we elected him? See as you dey disgrace yourself. Are you a graduate Mr man? Nor go learn mechanic or any trade to help yourself out.......mumu man......I guess na Jonathan open nairaland for seun? Lazy Fool........nor food for a lazy man, go hustle

2undexy:
lol, accepted. That's a slip of the QWERTY keyboard. And mind u, av u ever heard of the phrases, White collar job and self employ job?

The instance u gave about seun establishin Nairaland, it means he's self employed, and as a matter of fact, he's not a grauduate and he is doing well for himself.

80% of our graduates are seeking for jobs but all to no avail.

The president even said in one news that he's the first president in Nigeria to ever create 54,000 jobs. Imagine, 54,000 jobs in 6 years. So it means 54,000 was given a job out of over 160 million Nigerians. What of the remaining 159.46 million Nigerians? Jobless or what.

Pls bro, get your fact right and support those who will CHANGE Nigeria