babymama7:

a girl looks sexy not pregnant, do you think makosi would have a nigerian child, the woman is royal, she will go for royalty

The girl doesn't look sexy to me and besides what's wrong with a nigerian child?

Whitney

that woman's voice is simply amazing

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if only we can surround the leaders who loot our money and disgrace them like this too.

WORD!

'Damn! honey girl, i suppose u can repeat all that in english. But if what you expressed out there is english to u, then i suggest the Naija Government should start closing down some schools" [quote][/quote]


Hilarious but so true.

@poster
We accept issues like this by faith. Only the dead knows for sure. Wait till you die to find out because until then you will never know.

hey does anyone know if there is any end of the year party going down in NYC, MD, VA or Jersey?

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conscience

dakmanzero:

. Even worse is the fact that it is difficult to teach someone written Yoruba without teaching them English first, since the written form of the language is used next to nowhere outside of academia and modern literature.

I'll have to disagree with you on these. Not just because I think it's not the truth, but because I know people who don't understand English but read the Yoruba language fluently.

I stepped out of this thread b'because I really do not have a flair for arguments. But with what you just said I need to ask a question- does speaking yoruba make you tribalistic?. If were are trying to argue this way that the Yoruba language makes people tribalistic then in order to stop tribalism we have to get rid of the 250 languages spoken in Nigeria - this includes Igbo and yes Hausa which is not only spoken in Nigeria.
"By the way Yoruba is not only spoken in Nigeria though it is synonymous with southwestern Nigeria. Yoruba is spoken by about 35 million speakers, primarily in Nigeria, Benin and Togo. Many Yoruba speakers today also live in such countries as Ghana and Ivory Coast. Yoruba language elements survive among many descendants of former African slave populations in the Americas in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, North Carolina, and elsewhere in the Caribbean basin."
If Nigerians are not divided  by tribes we will be divided by religion or by lands. Our problem is beyond the native languages we speak.

Why do you consider the Yoruba language unwritten?. French and Spanish alphabets resemble the English alphabets as well. I doubt you can call those unwritten languages.

would you quit arguing on who is sensible or not?

changed the game?
that's the name of the game
you can join the game
or leave the game
u must know how to play the game
so you don't sound lame

olabowale:



What you need my dear sister, in nationhood and humankind is to read, Qur'an, hadith and seerah, yes study islam so that you may receive the mercy of the true and only God that is capable of it. If you read the surah called fatihah,  compare it to christian's lords prayer.
Come to Islam and be benefitted. There is no life except true and sincere effoert to seek the path of forgiveness from God. For we are all prone to sinning.

What makes you think the "mercy" can't be found in the Bible or in christianity?

dating?
quit  playing
cos I ain't got time to keep waiting

The beauty of a culture lies in its language and the heart of a culture is it's language. You lose the language you might as well consider the culture lost.  It's bad enough most of us speak broken Yoruba. We are fast losing our poetry, our incantations and our arts.


By the way I never said English should not be the first language. My point is that it doesn't have to be the only language.

theopops:

And having a Yoruba accent, while speaking English is bad? Hmmm, Dak. don't forget that we all have an accent. In the US, peeps from the North go to the South and they complain about the way the southerners talk and vice versa. Mind you, all they speak is English.

That's right. And there are Americans who claim they can't understand when someone with a British accent is talking. They all still speak English but with different accents due to the region in  which they grew up in.[quote][/quote]

Ok the kids that grew up not speaking Yoruba. but grew up in Nigeria do they  not end up developing regional accents?. I grew up speaking Yourba and Engliish, the guy who called me ajepaki only knows 2 yrouba words - oriope and bawoni. In the US, people who listen to both of us, to them we sound alike. We both speak with "an accent". (by the way we both pronounce the "H" something yorubas do not usually pronouce). Conscious effort on your part can reduce your regional accent or being around people that speak differently can have an effect on your accent.  Your child not speaking Yoruba won't do anything for the child in as much as people around him still speak with "accent".

Hey what's up
I can't keep up
everytime I try to spice it up
I keep messing up

why don't you tell us?

Does it look like we are getting along?

Stopping your child from learning Yoruba won't stop the child from having an accent, The type of accent you develop depends on the enviroment you grow up in?.

who do you think I am asking?

I remember sometimes grinding up chalks and rolling them up in a paper and pretending to smoke. Once in a while my brothers and I would roll up papers and lit them up and pretended to smoke. My mom caught us once and bit the 'devil' out of us.

Really?

what do you mean what questions?