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Brandnew2:
Your left Balls...
Wait, which one is bigger?

Brandnew2:
^Dude!
What is it with the copy cat thingy...







What type of accent would you call I.k Osakioduwa...the dude that hosts Big brother Africa? Just asking, I'm getting. somewhere with this.

ronald4lif:
Please can you suggest a link where I can listen to him talk. I see/read him on blogs but never heard him speak. Thanks

ivyT:
Get off my radar
Quote me again make I catch u

Brandnew2:
search his name..I.k Osakioduwa or Big brother Africa on youtube. You'll find him.

ronald4lif:
When it comes to differentiating vowels sound in writing that's not my thing but I am reasonably good at knowing the difference of consonants.

There are many videos on YouTube of Brits whose accent one can never match as same with Soyinka's. Please for starters, take some time out again and listen to Soyinka's videos again on the net and compare with that of Tinie Tempah, Cameron, Boris Johnson etc and see if you can boldly say Soyinka's got Brit's accent. I know you here Brits talk everyday as well in person or you may even have the Brits accent yourself, you really think Soyinka's accent is same with what you here on the streets daily?

Based on the argument on immigrants who migrated to Britain at an adult age with pure British accent that's one fact I won't also want to be engage on. Mixing up words like Jim Iyke did in the past in movies is not American accent but many people thought it was then and still is now. I have had this same argument many times with guys who almost 95% of people in Naija thinks their accent is Brits but admits theirs and the Brits born is largely different.

When you attend an office where a registration is made, and passports or biometric checks is required to run some checks. No matter how British is your accent if you weren't born or spend teenage and relative young years in the UK, the question of where are you originally from will always pops up, if you like have a red passport. But when they here proper Brit accent, such a question hardly surfaces. And it has nothing to do with skin colour, same treatment goes to white (EU citizens) and blacks (African kids but or who spent their youthful age here). Such question comes up because the Brits knows and can differentiate their accent from that of copy-cats. Pardon any typo, busy with other stuffs while typing.

faradexs09:
I guess too much diphthongs in ur language, made u jealous, some do form but cwiously most of us just catch up dt right from the preschool days, by the way English is our official language, if I speak it beta than d brits aint forming, it's just me, dt's wat I learnt to speak...so polishing my accent to make me more presentable aint a crime, cos I know my real value is deep within..so speaking the sexiest accent coupled with a great personality is just a compliment...pple shud just be themselves though..

ronald4lif:
I just did and watched a video of him for 3mins. I don't know what accent he has but definitely not Brit. May be you can help out

dechandel:
I don't understand this post at all
you will soon come and say that Chuka Umunna's accent isn't british or that Chiwetel Ejiofor fakes his accent

I have seen videos of Wole Soyinka a couple of times and yes his words have connections to the british accent..

Copy cats?? I wouldn't say that cause there is no way you would spend much years with people and wouldn't get a hint or rather learn their language, this doesn't apply to the british accent alone..
You were in the east for four years and learnt how to speak their Igbo, so how is this different for someone who has been in the united kingdom for four years and wouldn't grab the accent

Brandnew2:
That's a fine example of a perfect Nigerian accent..That's almost the way Wole Soyinka sounds.
That's pure English devoid of our local languages and to me that sounds way better than the so called fake british accents you're yapping about.

Who wants to start Quacking like a duck... I for one don't fancy that.

Brandnew2:
Just check how Alex Ferguson speaks and compare that to Wole Soyinka. Who do you prefer?

ronald4lif:
I take it that was referred to me. Jealous of people's accent? That's a new one.

True one can brush up their accent to whatever standard, that's fine, their life of course. People can brush up their accent to be even better than the Brits, that's also fine too. But my argument has been that of the British accent. The examples of people given by many of the debaters is in completely difference from the Brit accent I know and hear daily on the streets and at which my colleagues and friends speak.

Please this is a debate, not a brawl, so be civil.

ronald4lif:
Your examples of Chuka Umanna and Chiwetel falls in line with my argument. They were born and/or grew up in the UK. I would never cite such examples as a reference to this debate.

Learning a language is different from having an accent. I said I lived in the East and learnt Igbo, and I also said I don't have the igbotic accent. There's a difference between learning a language and adopting an accent. Or you could correct me if I am wrong.

ronald4lif:
Brilliant. I can't say British accent is better than that of Soyinka's. If he speaks plain english (whatever that means) then I want to believe you're saying his english is not of British accent. To be honest, I like the way he speaks than the way the Brits speaks.

dechandel:
Wole Soyinka speaks plain English yess, and he sometimes infuses the brits, does that mean he is faking it??

Brandnew2:
Now we're getting somewhere.
His type of English is what I'd call Nigerian Queens English. That's the way his generation and that of our fathers were thought in school..
I'd suggest you should adopt that kind of English and don't try to copy the British. Let them discriminate all they want. At some point even the whites around you won't help but notice how fine you speak when you adopt the proper Nigerian Queens English.

dechandel:
Chiwetel Ejiofor came down to Nigeria at the age of 9 and left again at the age of 13, he was in Enugu at that time..
And also during one of his interviews, he said his parents made sure he was being brought up with his language, this was in answer to how he could speak Igbo that much..

Now you stay with some certain peeps with different language and certain differences, biko will there be a change or not?? this is not adopting accents or whatever, but its the natural law and answer my question o

faradexs09:
uhm just my opinion though.. why is it forming if he chooses to sound more foreign to get an attraction, if d magic works for him, then dt's a lucky catch,it should ve nothing to do with whether he is poor or nt, I'll be concerned only if he wants to fit in and the turnout end up being awkward than he been normal.why u may dislike dt, I fink it's just d adaptionist method of doing anything to be socially accepted as long as the reward is fast and pretty impressive.

dechandel:
Haa.. I don't agree with this your post o.. nah.. you got it wrong this time!!
One; I have seen Soyinka talk before and yes he has the brits accent..
Two; I have seen peeps who migrated here in their early 20's and the rest, been here for a very long time. and when they talk you'd think they were born here. do you know background influences a lot??
And please how do you spot a fake brit accent?? teach me, since you know a lot about the fake accent

Brandnew2:
Nobody says Wole Soyinka speaks exactly like the British. What I believe Dechandel is trying to say is that he's got a fusion of british in the way he speaks and she's right. That's why they call it Queens English. They thought us and we blended it with out own natural tongue to produce that unique type of English.

ronald4lif:
Lol! At the age of 9 and 13 one is still a teen, and that was still what I said at the onset, that unless you were born or spent your teen or youthful years in the UK, you can hardly adopt the Brit accent. Only 2 in 10 does so successfully in their early adult years like I also pointed out in my earlier comment.

There are many Nigerian born kids, especially Yorubas, whose parents sent them to Nigeria to live for some years before they come back to Britain. They learnt Yoruba and Nigerian pidgin during their stay in Nigeria. But they never lost touch of their Brit accent, because they were born in the UK and that was the ever first language they adopted in life. I hope this answer the question.

Brandnew2:
Nobody says Wole Soyinka speaks exactly like the British. What I believe Dechandel is trying to say is that he's got a fusion of british in the way he speaks and she's right. That's why they call it Queens English. They thought us and we blended it with out own natural tongue to produce that unique type of English.

dechandel:
I don't agree with your last statement and i am saying so out of experience..

You don't get my point as much as i don't get yours
You are just misquoting my comment(s)

eddysernal:
ok guyz its getting out of hand i mean forming american or british accent for God know who.truth is a girl who loves you for your accent is a fool and you are a bigger fool to think its your accent that should define you. some niggas own to much self their accent strong pass american citizen yet them neva reach cotonu before. after all accent for mouth no money for pocket babes go still leave you. so please stop forming speak like a nigerian....proudly akawibomite/nigerian

ronald4lif:
Sorry, I may have missed your point there. I thought you were trying to say that for the fact that Chiwetel lived in the East and his parents thought them their language while growing up, he should have equally adopted the Igbo accent just like he did adopt that of Britain. Or you may want to rephrase your question again, sorry.

AirborneLacer:
This is only a cheap generalization.

Firstly, Not every one that speaks with a foreign accent is 'forming' as you asserted.

I for one, don't feel too comfortable speaking with the Nigerian accent - this doesn't make me less of a patriot.

I tend to express myself more when I switch to my prefered British accent.

You don't have to blame me for this really. As a lad, I attended a seminary school that had English folks as teachers.

At a very tender age, I was encouraged to speak the British way by the school. It was hardly boring and I so much loved the experience.

Secondly, one doesn't necessarily have to travel out of the country to acquire a foreign accent.

If this is some kind of notion, then it has to be dismissed.

You can learn a foreign accent by mere watching foreign movies, attending a Nigerian school that recognises a foreign curriculum, engaging in conversations with foreigners etc.

It's that simple.

dechandel:
You know i had to check references to back up my point and this accent wahala isn't even british. what the normal Londoner speak is pure english this is what i just saw on an "English website"
They claim the main brits accent is welsh, Scottish and the rest of them.. And they said the most simple accent to adopt is the English accent of which many peeps concurred to this!! Do you get my point??