There is no doubt the American lady is like the pot calling kettle black. Her English is no difference from the poor Nigerian English she critcised in her post.
Examining her post very carefully, one will find a few mistakes which for an American lady are unforgivable. I agree, however, that the Nigerian English to a larger extent is affected by the effect of our mother tongues. This is evident in the transposition (2nd sense of OALD7) of expressions from the local languages into the English language. It still must be said, however, that there exist in Nigeria, the standard Nigerian English, but few people speak it; roughly 10% of the Nigerian population use this English which is similar to the Queen‘s.
What I see as the cause of the bastardised use of English is the “I-DON‘T-CARE“ attitude of Nigerians towards English; afterall, it is not my mother tongue. We fail to make use of good books like “Common Errors by Users of English“ by Dr. Joy Eyisi, which seek to correct the marred English spoken by most Nigerians. What most Nigerian fail to understand is that poor use of the English language reflects how well a person is educated or cultured. The half-baked English in which we express ourselves seems to have become firmly established in its incorrectness that we find it difficult to go back to the standard English.
If the spoken and written English of the present generation is damaged already, care must be taken to make sure that of the coming generation is not. This is the responsibilty of the government but the Nigerian governments have no time for such an ardous but prospective investment; they are engulfed in the flames of corruption ergo, only perhaps, the parents and teachers can help save the situation.

Heartbender:
You that is exposed to demented literature abi? Stop reading people's history from the voices of a rented crowd or looking at it with one eye.

Heartbender:
I am Ijaw...Rivers Ijaw, Eastern Ijaw and you can't wake up from a Sunday slumber, subscribe to free data and type whatever gibberish and then add "I am Ijaw" just to sound cool. Which Yoruba prince found and named an ethnic group whose people are without national borders? Do you think we are just a minority living in liquid quarters of the Niger area? How can you just imagine a vain thing that some originate from Benin? What fever pitch is your malaria and typhoid this sunny day of the Most High?

daveP:
their girls are good to be with.

Blakjewelry:
perhaps op need to do more research

Heartbender:
After number 1 fact, the rest is hocus pocus

Alexgeneration:
A place filled with drunks, lazy youths and a den of promiscuous ladies who take pride in having lots of babies for different men who are equally irresponsible.





There ladies comes first in having children out of wedlock.





Truth is bitter

FisifunKododada:
ogogoro sippers

Solorrman:
we rather stay illitrate than be educated wearing sww through and mini skirt in d name of wise and educated. The incredible,ultimate,tramendous and great failure illitracy is for a man to be holding a masters or doctor degree in science or art but he believe a god,d creator,the abslute,the almighty can be having anus and penix. The only illitrate on earth is some one who failed to reason that god can never possess degrading features human never, can u imaging jesus christ in the toilet? So u think am lying ? Have u ever ponder that its indeed an embarassement for the god 3 in one almighty creator to come with fully functional carry go anus and penix ? This is the father of all illitracy,its not almajiri that got rag all over that supporse to be illitrate but u that worship some one that never even once tell u he was a god that u should worship him by dancing and singing thinking god is just like femi kuti that he can give u ticket to paradise bkos u dance shoki well in the world

Africaman:

I'm not an Ijawman myself, but when I see Ijaws/Bayelsans generally, they are just like other Southern Nigerians, but with a different language and some distinct cultural peculiarities. As they live by the sea, they are excellent fishermen, boatmen and swimmers.


When thinking of prominent people from Ijawland/Bayelsa state, I think of people like:


A) Late Major Isaac Adaka Boro - Ijaw freedom fighter, who declared the Niger Delta Republic in 1966, but later fought on the federal side in the civil war, where he lost his life.

B) J. P. Clark - Playwright and poet and elder statesman of Nigerian literature, who joined Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe to plead for late Gen Mamman Vatsa's life over the alleged coup plate against Gen Ibrahim Babangida in 1986. In 1968 he wrote and published America, Their America, a travelogue based on his experiences
in America, which caused great controversy in the literary world. I would really like to read this book, as I have heard of it many years ago, but unable to locate a copy. J.P. Clark aslso wrote the The Ozidi Saga - an epic of Ijaw oral history in 1966.

C) Prof Tam David-West - Petroleum Minister under General Buhari, Minister of mines, power, and steel under General Babangida's presidency in the 1980s. He was accused of economic crimes and arrested by Babangida's regime, but was later cleared. I believe he was a man of great competence and integrity, though he wasn't really recognised or appreciated.

D) Mujahid Dokubo-Asari - Ijaw freedom fighter who brought Nigeria's operations to a standstill in 2002/2003, after his group NDPVF(Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force) attacked oil installations. It took the intervention of some foreign countries to bring Nigeria's government at the time to negotiate with NDPVF, because their attacks had destabilised world oil prices.

E) Dr. Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan - President of Nigeria 2010 - 2015. A scholar, a fisherman and a politician. The first elected president to peacefully handover to another elected president, without challenging the result. Like him or not, he has earned his place in Nigeria's democratic history.

F) Gabriel Okara - Poet and novelist, another elder statesman of Nigerian literature.

G) DSP Alamieyeseigha - Former Nigerian Air Force officer, later on became a politician and governor of Bayelsa state. Supposedly was the political Godfather of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

I) Alfred Diete-Spiff - The Amayanabo of Twon-Brass, a former military officer and first Military Governor of old Rivers State. Indeed, he was the first ever Rivers State governor, period!


Thats all I can think of right now.

ciao

dollytino4real:
yes or not

ThatIjawBoy:
that's what they think ,not what I think

dollytino4real:
militant and ready to fight people.

1shortblackboy:
my brothers

dominique:
Fishermen/fisherwomen

Asquare84:
People who are lazy and always depending on government because the have oil

ThatIjawBoy:
they see thugs, cultists. that just my opinion sha.

Nowenuse:


Do you know that Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese etc evolved as Pidgin languages of Latin?
Today these languages are standard official world languages, while Latin has has become obsolete?

So many official languages of various countries today evolved as Pidgin languages. Then later become Creoles.

emmyid:


Young man.. You are intelligent. The girl 1sharon girl the provoke me with her comments. She doesn't even know the etymology and evolution of the world major languages. I grew up in a pidgin speaking home, I know my language and will outshine her in English. Because I know the rules of Grammar. Be it prescriptive or descriptive grammar, I've got the English syntax on my finger tips. Yet, I'm a proud speaker of Pidgin.

Efewestern:



lol.. Okon those people get our image, I even surprise when the babe they tell me say she sabi warri.. Na that day I fear our level for the pidgin English matter.

Those part of Cameroon you just hala now suppose they part of Naija..u self you know the story.

erico2k2:

Thank you, very simple.she 4got the black people are English too not just the whites.
if U know,U know!

1Sharon:



Lol get the fvck out of here.
Talking in colloquial and slang is not broken English. And 60% of English? Mainly black British say mandem. White ppl talk a bit more formally.