Unfortunately that's how many Nigerians see the how are you question especially when they think they're older.to them how are you is patronizing. You can turn the how are you question to hope you're fine sir? Or hope you're good sir?

Then when you're talking to a married woman you better be careful because they're more sensitive and read unnecessary meanings to every word.just tell them my regards to your family or my love to your family. If you're a lady and you tell a married woman "my love to your husband" even if you don't know her husband from Adam or seen him before, you will explain why you're sleeping with her husband to warrant the statement 'my love to your husband'.so just say my regards to your husband or my love to your children.



And if you're a man and you tell another Mans wife "how are my children doing". (Referring to the woman's kids) even if the man has never slept with the woman or impregnated her and the man says that in the presence of her husband, the husband will carry all the children for DNA because to him 'how are my children' is taken literally. Yoruba's use that line a lot.referring to other people's kids as theirs but it doesn't mean anything.

Wizkhalifa2:
STUDENT : HOW RE U SIR?

LECTURER : I'M FINE MY DEAR, WHAT IS UR MAT-NO?

STUDENT :

this has happened to a friend.

Nigerians and their low mentality, simple question, yes I have experience such before from an elderly man, tther is nothing there at all, a little child can ask him are you and simple I am fine, we they. To are we mate

Oooh Nigeria and our level of understanding... Oyinbo children that will even tell their father "Dad don't be silly..."

You don't ask an elder "how are you". It does sounds childish and derogatory except in western world. "Sir, how is your family" is the right use of words. He's part of the family and it shows ur concern for his family.
In my local dialect "Nnanyiukwu kedu ka ezi n'ulo gi mere."

I ask my dad how are u every single day...

It shows u care nawaa for some people sef

Such happened to me during my NYSC year. But is " weldone ma" and she turned profusely

ivolt:


So you have nothing to do with your time than instigating tribalism ?

Kreme:
Must you display you stupidity??

ivolt:


So you have nothing to do with your time than instigating tribalism ?

hey you two, i'm a yoruba nd like seriously i jst came back from a long term ban for spewing some really ill words... Don't get on my nerves... And do ur family a favour of not disgracing them here

Is a fact. People in naja use it to show superiority. U greet an older hostel mate ''good morning'' & he responds ''how are you?'' without returning yr good-morning first. Its disrespectful!

yvesboss:
Nigerian Mentality.

Reminded me of when i first joined this company and the culture was to call people by first name, even the MD/CEO. Omo mehn..it took time for me to adjust ooo but since thats the culture, i eventually adjusted.

In Nigeria, you will hear stuffs like Mama Brother Afeez because Afeez is way your senior and you cant call Mama Afeez to show respect for Afeez...funny Tradition

lmao.na that one dey pain you.what of big daddy,small mummy,big aunty,small aunty

What other respect does he want after having added "Sir" to the how are you......you put sir, you no put sir, na wahala

Our adults sef are too over-demanding

Even replying with " and you? " after responding to " How are you? " from elders, is equally disrespectful to some folks.

K08:
Even replying with " and you? " after responding to " How are you? " from elders, is equally disrespectful to some folks.

lmao.so true.if you say and you? You'll hear OMA babe ke

Or o goh diye

You can always ask me "How are you?" No Problem at all and my reply is always " I'm very well thank you".

What I hate however, what I detest , what annoys me, what I find offensive, what gets me mad , is the ignorant and illogical silly greeting/question which goes like this - " How was your night?". This question sends me into a rage I often - actually always don't know what to say as a response but my whole day can be ruined by that stupid meaningless and ignorant nonsensical illiterate greeting.

"How are you doing Sir" should just be the right sentence....fakati

What a Backwards country... So glad to be here.

Gkemz:
You don't ask an elder "how are you". It does sounds childish and derogatory except in western world. "Sir, how is your family" is the right use of words. He's part of the family and it shows ur concern for his family.
In my local dialect "Nnanyiukwu kedu ka ezi n'ulo gi mere."

how are you is nothing it's just showing concern for your welfare, that's all.na wa o

In some places if you give an adult something without bending over a little, they won't collect it.if you Even stand too much in their front, they'll say do you want to stand on my head and if you give them something without bending over a little, they'll give you one wicked bad eyes that can make you loose your self esteem in minutes

"how are you doing sir?" or "how do you do sir?" seems ok.

As much as it looks harmless, I think it's more polite saying "How are you doing sir" instead of how are you sir. It's just that we take deeper meaning to words, we are Nigerians.

pure truth!

once on my street two girls were fighting, we stopped to separate them and then asked why. one of the girls said "this is always feeling like big girl" the other one said "this idiot thinks am her mate" after all the talks we asked again, wetin cause the fight?
and one of them said every time this stupid girl is asking me "how re u as if am her mate" i was surprised that asking "how are you' can cause such a big public fight among girls.

smardray:
hey you two, i'm a yoruba nd like seriously i jst came back from a long term ban for spewing some really ill words... Don't get on my nerves... And do ur family a favour of not disgracing them here

No one cares whether you are Yoruba or not.

Instigating tribalism on a neutral thread is gross
foolishness.

Go ahead and show your stupidity if it makes
you happy, but I have to warn, you will neither
be tolerated nor forgiven.

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT IF THE PERSON ASKING THE QUESTION REALLY HAVE YOUR WELFARE IN MIND, BUT IN A SITUATION WHEREBY SOMEONE WHO IS NOT UP TO THE AGE OF YOUR YOUNGEST SIBLING NOW SEE IT AS A TREND, BYE ASKING YOU CHAIRMAN HOW ARE YOU NOW? GUY HOW YOU DEY? THEN IT'S COMPLETELY WRONG.

Hahaaha..thats funny

mredwifeosband:
lmao.na that one dey pain you.what of big daddy,small mummy,big aunty,small aunty

ivolt:

No one cares whether you are Yoruba or not.
Instigating tribalism on a neutral thread is gross foolishness.
Go ahead and show your stupidity if it makes you happy, but I have to warn, you will neither be tolerated nor forgiven.

uhm u ar sighted... Now hop on boy!

nagoma:


You can always ask me "How are you?" No Problem at all and my reply is always " I'm very well thank you".

What I hate however, what I detest , what annoys me, what I find offensive, what gets me mad , is the ignorant and illogical silly greeting/question which goes like this - " How was your night?". This question sends me into a rage I often - actually always don't know what to say as a response but my whole day can be ruined by that stupid meaningless and ignorant nonsensical illiterate greeting.

how was your night?

Kini big deal? Isn't it JUST A SIMPLE QUESTION. JUST SAY I ENJOYED MY SLEEP OR MY NIGHT WAS GREAT IF YOU EXERCISED YOUR WAIST VERY WELL AT NIGHT ON THE BED

If you know what I mean

I feel if d student had rephrased the question like: How is work sir? Maybe the lecturer wouldn't b harsh on him,cos asking how's work sir/ma.....to elders encapsulates you are asking about their welfare as well as dia work......

yvesboss:
Hahaaha..thats funny

big mummy is for your mom's elder sister..so I heard

It's disrespectful to call them aunties even if they're actually your aunties so you call them big mummy because they're older than your mom and they're old enough to give birth to you
Then you call your mom's younger sisters as small mummy because they're younger than your mom.they may not be old enough to give birth to you but they're more or less your mom by virtue of the fact that they're your mom's younger sister

Then big aunty is for your mom's elder sister's kids who are apparently older than you .

Small aunty is used when your mom's kid sister who is your grandmas last born is maybe few years older.maybe like 3-5 years older,you call her small aunty because even though you're still age grades she's still your aunty so you should accord her the respect you give to your mom.occasionally it's allowed to disrespect her or call her directly by her name without putting aunty in front of her name however your relations mustn't know

...

If I greet my woman like dat she will jokingly tell me to rob her head n add 'how s ur daddy did u go to school today'

I go just burst laff

They even prefer to be asked "hw far" than "hw r u".
I remember my frnd's junior brother, after so many years of not seeing each other, i asked him hw r u? He said bros abeg "hw r u" is for small children. I shock o. English has been modified to suit our environment culture sha

i use "how's everything going?", "how's life going?"... these are more understandable.