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Messi is about crying ooooo

Barça just scored



Beside the net

Atletico has no joy. They just lynched their former team mate, Arda Turan

Suarez, MTN

Oh my!!!!


Barça almost scored ... Unfortunately, almost does not kill a bird

Torres be jumping around like a bush rat. As if he'll score if given the ball

That wasn't needed nau

I smell goal...

I'm so loving this evening...

Barça fans, where are you guys?

Zedoo:
Chai....which kind rough athletic be dis Messi dun get injury again!!!

Atletico is a physical team. Go and ask Chelsea


Mukina!!!

seunny4lif:

Mach

Show me your number

Barça players are so useless.

franugo:
Sanchez01 shey u seeing this?

Atletico scores! 1-1

zzzzy:
First time I'm seeing laliga on fp

Major LA liga matches make FP.


Messi is injured

franugo:
Sanchez01 shey u seeing this?

Mtchewwww The match is far from over

Efewestern:
Lolz . can't stop laughing .. @ bolded.. oh really.. believe me sometimes a little slap will solve so many issue.. go ask ur granddad.. Ladies need strong hands.. our Urhobo men of these generation are not like our forefathers.

Slap kwa No ooo... That our forbears towed that path does not mean it's right.

ammyluv2002:
Lolz! I'm not watching. ..i don't want to spoil my good night rest

Lolz

It's 1-1 for now. Hopefully, United would win

Unlimited22:
You are losing to Villarreal and are here talking crap about Barca.

It's 1-1 now... Keep calm. The attack is heavy. We're walking away with the win.

Northampton have never beaten Manchester United.

It will happen tonight. Man United is like a home video right now. Every team is grabbing their copy

Ammyluv2002, please tell me you'll watch the match

I'm here to see Barcelona fall

Where are my fellow Madridstas

Sexina851:
Most of them are more uncultured, insulting and rude Infact they have succeeded in painting the language negative with their attitude, especially where I stay most people don't relate with em at all.

My dear, you and Chiwude should ignore that cretin, lest he forces you guys to let out things you ought not to.

Efewestern:
Lolz.. Also they see Urhobo men to be strict and harsh.. me for example i don't take nonsense from any woman... dare cross my part.. u gonna receive a beating of your life.

Also the Alcohol issue is not limited to Urhobo men alone.. d ijaw , Itsekiri e.tc also love alcohol..

As for the polygamy, Its in our blood.. In the olden Days our forefathers married alot of women.. my granddad married 3 Wives.. Lolz.. Reason our girls don't want to marry us.

Urhobo men are actually strict and harsh. I for one am. The beating part though. I'm not sure I can raise my hand against a woman, let alone bring it down on her. My orientation in that regard is very far from the typical Urhobo man.

I think we need to dispel the polygamous attitude from our lifestyle. Times are fast evolving. Just like Frank AIG Imokhuede's poem, it should be one man, one woman.

Efewestern:
Lolz.. we are over 5million , i see no reason why they can't teach atlease 5 Local languages in our school.. atleast we re the 5th largest ethnic group in Nigeria

Also i think our men re lazy, Reason y our ladies don't love getting married to us.. don't know if its cous of Oil money. whats ur view on that

A lady asked me recently where I'm from and I told her I'm Urhobo. Guess what she said? 'No no no no, I'm sorry, Urhobo men are very lazy and I know this to be true'

In my mind I was like 'so it has gotten to the point where everyone now knows us (Urhobo men)'

I think beyond laziness, our ladies believe we all have this polygamy tendency, which is not entirely true. Most Urhobo men love polygamy though.

On why we are lazy, I think it all stems from the fact that we believe we have a lot (Oil). Also, it stems from the very many peer groups a typical Urhobo man belongs to, which largely involves gisting unnecessarily while they drink and say nonsense. Urhobo men love conversations. The women get busy during this time while the man is unaware that he is wasting time over nothing. Blame the alcohol too.

While our ladies don't have problems with the alcohol, their fear is that we'll just sit at home and do nothing, yet, brag as the man. An Urhobo man who loses his job is even worse. Those ones don't bother to get busy again.

I really admire Urhobo ladies. They're indeed exceptional

Efewestern:
Urhobo ladies av dere own problem.. But i love them for something.. They are strong and hardworking.. The reason i said we need to Marry ourselves is because marrying each other will go a long way in preserving our culture... i hope u know hw our land was taken in Warri ?. if we married ourselves those problem wouldn't av originated.

As for me. Urhobo Wife or i remain single.. And y is our language not taught in Secondary schools ?.. wats wrong with this state self

You made a whole lot of sense. Our women are indeed very hardworking. And the stereotype about our women being more hardworking than their male counterpart is true to an extent.

Cultural preservation is key, but it would be a whole lot of disaster for a man who understands just little or no aspect of the culture and then embarks on a journey of upholding cultural values in the home. Unfortunately, inter marriages cannot stop among Urhobos. We've been groomed to be liberal from the outset, which is good, but not all too good.

@the bolded, I find it very funny ... We can't do a thing because we are a minority tribe like other minority tribes. Only the three major ethnic groups are given prominence in schools. I filled an international form recently at my workplace and I was asked to list the languages I speak. Wetin concern me? I added Urhobo as a language. If dem like, make dem check for Google.

Efewestern:
Lolz.. Don't know why we love getting married to outsiders, To me thats the no. 1 problem, We love getting married to Yoruba , Edo e.tc and at d end those tribe subdue ours .. Take for example Fatia balogun, that Yoruba actress, She is from Urhobo But can't speak her language fluently

I already made up my mind to get married to an Urhobo lady.. so i go preserve our identity.. I can't speak Urhobo, Imagine me getting married to an Itsekiri, Yoruba, ijaw or an Igbo lady.. I won't b able to Urhobonize my kids..

I think You should come up with Ideas on how to promote our language online.. many of us might contribute to the success of such program. please think about it.

Lolz... Not necessarily true. I believe it all depends on how deeply rooted YOU are and not about who you marry. True, Urhobos are very liberal people when it comes to marriage. Perhaps, one of the most liberal sef. However, losing or retaining your root after marriage depends on you. You could choose a wife from wherever and still assert your root in the home, spell out what is expected of an Urhobo woman in marriage and also teach your children to love everything about the Urhobos, particularly the foods, stories, dress sense, mostly for the males and many others.

I for one used to have a wicked stereotype about our girls. I used to think they are all too loud and dramatic and uncouth. I'm changing this already because I keep meeting Urhobo ladies now who keep changing my mentality on this. Gold help us.

blues20:
Do you have a dictionary/bible on your language? That could be a starting point of for those you who cannot speak the language

There are dictionaries in Urhobo and Bibles as well, but they are not properly circulated. Besides, it would be very difficult for beginners to read without understanding the Urhobo orthography, the syntactic structure and special characters. Urhobo as a language, is somewhat difficult to read or write down, due to the heavy consonant clusters for in almost every word.

fratermathy:
Jesuovie
Jite

Jite is an incomplete name and the short form of 'Onajite'. Urhobo names are largely compound names and a few are compound complex, with prefixes. I doubt if the poster would be able to get a name starting with 'J' without a prefix. Most prefixes attached to these names rarely start from 'J'.

fratermathy:
Some people are trying to fix the problem. If you goto YouTube, you can search for Urhobo Cartoons and learn Urhobo from the basics very well. After that, you can proceed to watch Urhobo films (with English subtitles). The films are on YouTube too and they are quite good. Then we should befriend ourselves and enforce Urhobo as the only means of communication except on official terms. Someone even mailed me that he wants to develop an application for PCs, Android, etc, to learn Urhobo. Our children should be made to learn Urhobo as well. If we do this, we can complement the efforts of Urhobo Historical Society and Urhobo Progress Union so that Urhobo will not go extinct.

Quite true, I saw some Urhobo movies as a teen and even though I didn't really know what was fully going on at the time, I somewhat loved it and would watch with other members of the family. Not sure if they still make them.

I'm sure you missed one; listening to Urhobo songs. They help a lot in learning new words, particularly when they grease proverbs effortlessly. I'd recommend Jerry Ekpekuro anytime, anyday.

bigfrancis21:
Hey guys, it is enough. Let us not turn this thread into an Urhobo vs Igbo thread. This is a thread for Urhobos and their language revival. Everyone is welcome to post here but let us limit it to Urhobo matters please. cc Igboid, Enuguboy4nsk, blues20 etc.

Urhobo guys, please keep mentions of anything Igbo to the barest minimum, as it attracts unwanted attention. cc frathermarthy, CEOMYN

I will begin to hide any unrelated posts after this post.

This should have been done from the very start. It shouldn't have escalated to this point before coming in.

Efewestern:
Just look at the way they derailed this thread.. all in the name of annexing minority... I don't just get it...

This isn't their first and won't certainly be their last. I guess the motivation for their senseless cause isn't enough, not until they lump every minority tribes to themselves.

Enuguboy4nsk:
how is asaba responsible for your woes

It seems they're frying biscuits on your head. I'm the last person you'd want to engage on tribal issues, trust me. If you are looking for your kinsmen in Delta state while in Enugu, I'd suggest you journey yourself down there to meet with them. The thread says Urhobo, yet you and your ilks would self-service and die just because you're all out looking for your lost relatives over your senseless struggle.

fratermathy:
While Asaba is contributory, it is not so much the problem.

The problem is even from Warri, the oil factor and the confluence of Urhobo, Ijaw and Itsekiri. The Itsekiri, especially, made Urhobos feel inferior in many ways due to their influence in those days. The inferiority complex evolved to a negative disposition towards Urhobo language.

I believe that those of us who really want to learn should engage Urhobo teachers, maids, or elderly ones. I learnt the Urhobo I know now by active efforts. I had to go to my village to converse with kinsmen in Urhobo. I was initially speaking what they call "cut-and-paste" Urhobo but through corrections and errors, I improved.

I meant to mention Warri and not Asaba. My mistake. We actually don't need to engage teachers. Blame this on parents who try to act all civil and enlightened.