₦airaland Forum

Dear Englishman,
I have haboured this grudge against you for as long as ‘ever’ but I guess this is just the time when I get the right amount of energy to put pen to paper to communicate my feelings of hatred for you to you.
You deprive me of the joy and freedom I get from expressing myself in Pidgin English by insisting I speak your language. And you even force my own people - oblivious of the deficiencies of your language – to reject me or refer to me as illiterate until I can speak your obviously incongruous language.
Otherwise, how do you explain this situation where these pairs of seemingly opposite words mean the same thing? 'flammable’ and ‘INflammable’
‘valuable’ and ‘INvaluable’
And then you go on to tell me the opposite of
consistent is INconsistent, complete is INcomplete, elastic is INelastic, edible is INedible.
You go on to further confuse yourself (& me) by saying the opposite of …..
normal is ABnormal,
possible is IMpossible,
intentional is UNintentional
social is ANTIsocial,
appear is DISappear
value is DEvalue
curriculum is EXTRAcurricular
responsible is IRresponsible
Achieve is UNDERachieve
camp is DEcamp.
And for words like this, for reasons best known to you, you felt giving them one opposite would just be insufficient and decided to give them two instead.… the opposite of . . .
edited is unedited and inedited
moral is immoral and amoral.
How much easier would it have been, had you chosen one (JUST ONE) prefix to mean the opposite of words? Take for instance, “in"
then …
normal would have been INnormal
possible – INpossible
intentional – INintentional
social – INsocial
appear – INappear
value – INvalue
responsible – INresponsible
legal – INlegal
e.t.c…
The worst part is, up till now, I realize I have ‘hated’ you since I was a kid ’cos you consistently made my parents think I was q dullard all becos of your deficiencies {N.B: I always failed dictation and spellings becos of you}
Why put the ‘p’ in Psychology when you know perfectly that you don’t need it?
When there’s a letter ‘f’, why spell phone with a ‘PH’ and then call if Fone?
PHysics – fisix
PHilosoPHy - filosofi
When there’s ‘k’, why spell school with ‘CH’ and call it sKool – the worst part, you later tell me to pronounce CH in a different way when I use it in the word, CHurCH? You are such a jerk!
aving shown you a very little fraction of the inconsistencies of your language, I guess I’d have to stop here for now because I detest you so much and don’t think you even deserve this much of my time.
But then, had you invented your language with a few of my suggestions, maybe, JUST MAYBE, my parents would have realized very early how much of a genius they have for a son. . . . At least, I would never have failed English Language!
And so, my final words to you – I HATE YOUR LANGUAGE.