Phut:


You are not black and you definitely are not African. Nobody bought into that so, stop with the facade. Have the cojones to come out cleanly as the white racist and supremacist that you really are

macof:


You've made absolutely no sense man. You don't expect an independent people to abandon their identity for a foreign one
Try as you like if you aren't english you can never be english

pleep:
I want English to be the lingua Franca because i'm practical not sentimental.

Objectively, English is the best language ever created. It has the largest vocabulary, it is capable of the most nuance and complexity and more books are written in English than in all other languages combined.

davidante27:
Communication means :the successful conveying or sharing of ideas ,information and feelings.
Wouldn't it be better if everyone could communicate in one language instead of having interpreters ? What matters most is simply the ease of transfer of the message. Now imagine how difficult it would have been for Africans to understand each other if most Africans nation weren't unified by English or French language.
I'm not implying that people should suddenly abolish their languages and embrace English. Gradually,all of that will eventually happen. As I mentioned earlier,most people in Norway,Sweden,Denmark,Finland,Germany understand English language and speak it fluently as a second language. There are American and Canadian teachers teaching English in Japan,China,Singapore and South Korea, and most people there understand English . English is already the universal lingual Franca,although Chinese language has the largest number of speakers .

davidante27:

May I use this opportunity to inquire about your vociferous support for igbo / Biafra. Is your background Igbo? What makes you convinced that the Igbos can survive as an independent republic at this time ? Why do you vehemently do you support the igbos in particular and not any other group?
Note :My back ground is Oron ( Akwa Cross region) . I think it's a travesty of the highest order for igbos to contemptuously include the Akwa cross and other region in their Biafra agitation. I became recently enlightened about the fact that the igbos are simply linguistic neighbors under the igbo umbrella just as the Oron,Efik,Ibibio and anng are linguistic neighbors in the Akwa Cross region. Each of these groups already have their internal scores to settle and do not need extra baggage.
Based on my new found knowledge ,My suggestion is that every region in that order of linguistic relations should be autonomous Therein,and they should also maintain good relationship with their neighbors .

AAinEqGuinea:


I love all other ethnic groups, and my support of Biafra shouldn't assume contrare. All ethnic groups have demostrated that they are capable of self-governance. No one should be forced to say within some foreign amalgamation, further perpetuating foreign dominance. I don't care for tribalism, we're all black with interesting histories, stories, and languages. But it is terribly sad to see people who claim to be unified with you and your tribe who are also willing to re-live and subject you to similar horrors of 1967-70 if you dare try to secede again.

That's not unity or oneness, it's a forced relationship, more akin to slavery.

Funny how pleep's unwavering critism of Blacks echo similar rhetoric from Radio Biafra-"Biafra, God's perfect black Utopia". Pleep, heres your long awaited invitation to join the Biafran movement join us

pleep:
I am pro Biafra. Ethnic states are vital and evidence suggests that a separate SE Nigeria would be a productive country.

You have got me thinking.....

The existence of such a large high IQ and enterprising expat community from this region would most certainly get things rolling.

For it to be successful we would need to find a way to conflate the Annang, Ibibio, Efik Oron into one group and slowly combine that language/culture with Igbo. If this does not happen Biafra will just trade one problem for another. I also do not feel that the deep Niger Delta (Rivers/Bayelsa) should be included because that is conquest not separatism.

davidante27:
An independent igbo nation/biafra would be competing with south Sudan. It's a shame you support that .You should know better . One of akwa cross policy will be to deport all igbos and expel them out of the akwa cross. I will not like any igbos to live in akwacross . and a tall wall has to be built to b;ock off igbo land .
any plans for igbos to include the akwa cross region in their biafra would be met with hostility. igbo land would be nuked and destroyed .

davidante27:
I just don't like the igbos anymore ,based on my observation. I think their reasoning is primitive and inferior .
The Yoruba people seem to be more civilized in behavioral pattern .they are calm and more trustworthy.

davidante27:
An independent igbo nation/biafra would be competing with south Sudan. It's a shame you support that .You should know better . One of akwa cross policy will be to deport all igbos and expel them out of the akwa cross. I will not like any igbos to live in akwacross . and a tall wall has to be built to block off igbo land .
any plans for igbos to include the akwa cross region in their biafra would be met with hostility. igbo land would be destroyed to the shock of the world.
I was actually rooting for freedom and autonomy for every region ,but I now observe how silly the igbos are. Akwa cross do not wish to have any relationship with igbos at all.

davidante27:
Yes .Now I get why they don't support the igbos . i totally get it . Igbos need to be tamed like pets and not allowed to roam free .

davidante27:
Now you've just proven how dumb you really are . I know that you are igbo. I now get it .I guess that's why the igbo people are hated everywhere because of such inferior reasoning .
what makes you think that igbo has anything more than anyone else ? You should be ashamed that you were sold as cheap slaves .
Igbo people are historical slaves and are some of the most barbaric and backward people . Igbo land has no viable natural resources at all . Igbo soil is infertile. Igboland is landlocked . All igbo people are good at is multiply like rabbits and spread poverty,baby factories ,thieves, homosexuals ,lesbians ,prostitutes ,voodoo rituals , etc. I dare you to prove me wrong.
Igbos should be grateful to The Akwa cross for feeding them through the Nigerian purse . The akwa cross region has the most fertile soil in the entire nigeria. In a sane world and if every region becomes autonomous ,Igboland would be similar to South Sudan and would receive aid from Akwa cross. Igbos would beg for visa to migrate to Akwa cross.
The Akwa cross army would be one of the most advanced in Africa and might invade and occupy igbo land if desired .


Every tribe has intelligent people and innovators. They can achieve great things if given the opportunity . most of the intelligent and succesful igbos,oron,yoruba,efik,hausa,ibibio,etc. were born and raised or live in developed nations and are more enlightened . An average man in an igbo,Oron,Yoruba,Ibibio,Hausa ,Ijaw village is unexposed . What makes you think yours is the best one . You think only you have great ideas for your igbo land? what a delusional slowpoke.

makahlj2:
By the way, why should we stop talking about whites? Whites certainly have accomplishments, Only a fool would disregard these and would not learn from others' successes and failures. Asians learned from whites and that's how they developed their countries.

makahlj2:
I don't think he is white. He is most probably a self-hating Uncle Tom, ashamed of the dark color of his azz.

davidante27:
You written a long novel without saying anything . Igbos are linguistic neigbors and should agitate for their autonomy, the akwa cross are linguistic neigbors and should agitate for their own . the akwa cross lingua franca is Efik language and everyone agrees with that fact. the financial and commercial district with seaport and skyscrapers will be Oron area. The entertainment and recreational district will be iebeno/eket area. The administrative district will be around Uyo area.
what do igbos have?

pleep:
If you were analyzing the accomplishments of whites it would be productive, that is what the Asians did.

What monkeys like you do, however, is analyze the failures of whites and use them as a scapegoat/deflection for black dysfunction.

StarFlux:
Very true o.

If you look at Phyno's song "Connect" - it's actually a great example of what we're discussing.

He says:"dem say i no go go far, dey say am be local".

Now, what does local mean? It's a stereotypical (and often very true) description of the common man in Nigeria. Frowned upon due to poor command of the English language and usage of his/hers mother tongue.
If you don't speak English, you're not a civilized being. This is also why some parents ban their children from speaking their native languages.
Discrediting and down-talking our native languages for the sake of English pains me.

There are plenty of small languages in Europe capable of chemistry, mathematics, physics. There is nothing those languages can't do that English can. The exact same thing can be said about every single language on earth. English is neither grammatically complex or unique in any way. It's actually a pretty butchered language. The only thing it got going, is a huge body of loanwords. Some use that as a reason for it being superior, but in fact, a human can only remember so-and-so many words. A large portion of these words are barely used and more or less useless.

There is no good reason why someone hasn't sat down and said "ok, we need to create and improve the scientific capability of our languages - let's create some new ones". As I've said many times: morphology in our native languages makes it so easy to coin words to create new meanings. English has borrowed for the opposite reason - it's incapable of making new words. A staggering huge percentage of English is pure French/Latin. English borrowed for historical reasons, but also out of outmost necessesity and desperation (note: reason, historical, necessity, desparation - all of foregin origin).

At least to me, English carries very little emotion and expressiveness. It's a stone cold language, and thank goodness it's not my mother tongue. I lose your point of view entirely when you say "the most complexity and nuance". Abeg, u don leave your room? If you really want to use complexity as an arguement and as an "objective" measurement (which it is not), then there are far better candidates than English.

To pessimists saying you can't succeed with our languages - look at Phyno sef, look at Olamide, Wizkid, Flavour. They all succeeded because of their native tongues and they know it very well.

But as my signature says, were, were nikan njele. If you let the termite fester for too long, eventually it will take everything with it. Besides, if history has taught is anything, it's that world languages change rapidly. I see no reason why the next one couldn't be Yoruba, Igbo or Edo.
Je'ka jo.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynCkE3kYI10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS5zBrEZg-A

makahlj2:
Stop trolling. You cannot assume that other people in this forum are unintelligent. You hold some very extreme views and if anyone disagrees, you throw insults, not unlike an ape which throws sh$t at whom it dislikes.

davidante27:
[s]Go preach unity to your igbo people .They are not united and do not love each other . Also tell them to stop multiplying like rabbits . Overpopulation is detrimental to a well functioning society. Akwa cross is slightly larger or same size as Igbo land ,yet has a more sustainable population.
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I don't mind the entire African being one country and have English as Lingua franca. What I dislike is arrogant and primitive behavior . I can only accept English as the lingua franca, not any african language over another . insinuating otherwise is a disrespect to the other tribe's heritage .
Asking the akwa cross to embrace igbo language is akin to asking Germany to abolish their language and embrace Kosovo language .What a travesty.

pleep:
10$ for the first low-IQ African moronn to translate this passage into his native language:


"But the difference of space is essentially a determinate, qualitative difference. As such it is (a) first, the negation of space itself because this is immediate and undifferentiated self-externality, the point. (b) The negation as negation, however, is itself spatial, and the relation of the point to space is the line, the first otherness of the point. (c) The truth of the otherness is, however, the negation of the negation. The line, therefore, passes over into the plane, which on the one hand is a determinacy opposed to line and point, and thus is plane in general, but on the other hand is the suspended negation of space, and thus the re-establishment of spatial totality, which, however, now contains the negative moment within itself an enclosing surface, which splits off an individual, whole space."

makahlj2:
Now read carefully, you fool. English language is an eclectic, grabbag mess that has evolved over centuries to borrow words from other languages, and that's the explanation why it's so "rich and complete". Every other language, including Yoruba, could do this trick. Did you notice that most of the words in your citation that are difficult to translate into Yoruba, for example, are not of English origin either, but have Latin roots?

pleep:


European languages are useful for science because they developed with a writing system.

English was selected (above French and German) as the language of science because it is simply better at expressing certain concepts than other languages. It is also not encumbered by useless rules like word gender (Masculin/Feminin) or different endings found French or the excessively complex grammar of German.

There is no Yoruba way to express the oscillation of a sequence of real numbers. There is no way to describe the ossification of cartilage tissue in underwater invertebrates or to properly explain the amalgamated calcification of mollusk shells. These are things that developed over countless years of work and research in the English language. Trying to translate all of this into an African language is like trying to reinvent the wheel.

The fact that you will argue against such a self evident truth displays the abject and insurmountable stupidity of the average black brain.

And I laughed out loud when you said that English vocabulary is useless and no one can learn it all. That is exactly what a low IQ person would say. I didn't need a dictionary to give the above examples, but i know you will need a dictionary to understand them. English is a language that gives the intelligent a way to express themselves as fully as possible. It sounds cold and dry to you because you are retarded. The complexity of English lies in the amount of nuance that can be conveyed in every idea. Instead of saying cold you could have said; frigid, Icy, frosty, chilly, stiff or dead. All providing a slightly different nuance/meaning to the idea you are trying to convey.

What a colossal fail this argument was, you low IQ people make me sick. Now lets watch the monkey resort to an even more feeble and brain-dead argument against the indisputable truth.

English was selected (above French and German) as the language of science because it is simply better at expressing certain concepts than other languages