₦airaland Forum

AllNaijaBlogger:
I know. Seems Nigerian languages wont last the next century

Marc9:
U may as well hold ur TV and start twisting till the volume is down.

when it comes to TV or radio, u tune! U don't turn! U tune to a station, u tune the volume, u tune its menu, u tune! U don't turn!

U turn ur tap open, u turn ur table upside down! U don't turn down the volume of a TV set. U tune down!

The word tune means set! When u tune the volume, u set the volume down!

AllNaijaBlogger:
They just want to feel good that they can speak English

I blame Nigerian secondary schools for not teaching many Nigerian languages seriously. I would have had A1 in Itsekiri and not F9 in Yoruba

tolugar:
What about

"Perpetrators will be brought to book"

radiance26:
Centuries to came,we are still imitating english language wrongly,cos its not ours.We need to encourage ourselves by appreciating our own languages.I know an igbo girl who understands her language very well,but so ashamed to speak the language outside.Its a shame to us,we are loosing our own languages.

AllNaijaBlogger:
Another example of "oversabi" and "smartass" gramarian grammar Nazi.



"tune down" is actually logically inconsistent.


You "tune" to a station but you don't "tune" down the volume. Tune applies to frequency and not volume


It actually makes more sense to "turn" the volume down. One actually has to "turn" the volume knob down to reduce the volume

jojomario:
I cant kill myself because of another mans tongue. can oyinbo man speak yoruba?.anyways, good job.

frankyychiji:
I have noticed some of these things myself. Nice job for the enlightenment Op. Kudos!

tobechi74:
We are not from england yet we find delight in over speaking english.

How many of us can write in our native language?

Codedboy95:
they pay about N2, 911, 300.00/year (day student) N4, 000,300.00/year (boarding) does it worth it ??..

Htown64:
same boat with you..... I dare not use it else i will scratch till I bleed.

ddooskie:
If bathing with a sponge makes u clean then how does the towel get dirty? I use sponge too

Diffdeef:
As much as there're lots of people that bathe with sponges,have also come across people who don't bathe with sponges.

Quite a close friend of mine recently told me he doesn't bathe with sponge and I never knew all this while,he just gently rubs his preferred soap on his body and then washes it off with water,I was like I can never bathe without using a sponge,guess everybody's used to what they tend to always do.

But bathing with a sponge & without a sponge,which is better? Some say bathing with a sponge is better because it kind of removes more dirts by its scrubbing technique,but most foreign movies I watch,in scenes of an individual taking a bath I hardly see the individual using a sponge,it's like some use soap and some don't even use it at all,just showering,however the case may be,I will always go for sponges,how do you take your own bath?

mesoade:
Tchai see nigerians
they are so so impatient,
was it keshi that told musa to lose the 3chances?
If musa had scored them,una go dey hail keshi

tuffgongjo:
bros,Lippi retired in 2006,but was shamefully dismissed after the 2010 WC disaster,Sabella also wasn't sacked he took the honorable way out.
Keshi should have quit after that WC in my own opinion.

warrior01:
This will affect some Nairalanders presently in jail. So expect some monikers to stop commenting soon.

Phonon:
What happened to promoting the non-commissioned officers carrying their rusted AK-47 (provided by the military) on the front line? Those guys should be promoted too because they are the ones actually fighting and not the commissioned officers.

hotice01:
They only promoted officers,what about the service men who take the heat directly,die and they give their families a miserable some of money.they would never celebrate ordinary soldiers.pls if you doubt my claim do an indebt research on the way the ordinary soldier is been treated.they are ill-equiped,poorly paid and made to suffer hardship.their allowances are most times not paid under flimsy excuses.they cannot complain or protest because they will be charged fpor mutiny and killed.Nigerians don't really know the true state of the military.only the Nigerian Airforce show a little bit of care for it low ranking soldiers in terms of facilities and infrastructure.

Note: I'm not a Soldier,but I happen to be part of the family.

hotice01:
They only promoted officers,what about the service men who take the heat directly,die and they give their families a miserable some of money.they would never celebrate ordinary soldiers.pls if you doubt my claim do an indebt research on the way the ordinary soldier is been treated.they are ill-equiped,poorly paid and made to suffer hardship.their allowances are most times not paid under flimsy excuses.they cannot complain or protest because they will be charged fpor mutiny and killed.Nigerians don't really know the true state of the military.only the Nigerian Airforce show a little bit of care for it low ranking soldiers in terms of facilities and infrastructure.

Note: I'm not a Soldier,but I happen to be part of the family.

iyisco2001:
this will be a good news if the insurgency has stopped, how can u honour someone for the fight that hasn't ended. clueless nation.