₦airaland Forum

Sunsets:
One of the tacharistics of language is that it is dynamic. It evolves. 'They gave us English.' That's a prehistoric assertion. The world is developing the English language we speak today. Go to Encarta; search Nigerian English.

I live in Nigeria. I don't have to go to any encyclopaedia.
I was taught English right here in Nigeria.
I spoke it and passed my exams
I went over to UK. Spoke the English very well without ANY MISUNDERSTANDING. They spoke back without any misunderstanding. I cracked English Joke, they laughed. They cracked English Joke Iaughed.

If you can't speak English learn it.
Tune in to BBC.
Download BBC iPlayer app, hear English and learn it
Or buy a shortwave radio and tune BBC.

Bahddo:
Whoever wrote this is not very intelligent. When you say something is 'wrong English', you are saying it is grammatically (or perhaps syntactically) incorrect.

Just say it is misused over here and doesn't truly mean what we think it means.

That said, it high time people realized that African/Nigerian English is actually a thing. It should be rightly recognized as a valid context in which expression usage can differ from BrE or AmE and still be correct.

No it is not

Jamaicans speak own creole. A pigin English.
It is different from their English.
We also speak various dialects of Pidgin English. That is also a thing well recognised. It has always existed.
Pidgin English is a separate language with English and language words a mixed up by people trying to communicate in English straight from their native tounge

English is another language. Learn it and pass your exams. There's no excuse

Sunsets:
How many local languages do you know? I hear as often as it is said, "iralukwalu ofuma?' That is Igbo for how was your night?

Before asking your question, make sure the person is from your exact village
We are Nigerians from different tribes. Consider that you are speaking to someone NOT from your village
To assist in this process, the white people gave us English, with its own rules. This is what me and you are currently using right now to communicate.
I cannot spesk your native language. You cannot speak mine
But we can both speak English
Speak it with English rules. Let us equally face the challenge.

If you keep speaking your version of English that offends me, I will reciprocate by speaking my version of English that will offend you
Final result, we bothoffend each other and there is no communication anymore

safindakas:
so u can't lose ur job to save a soul?

The ones that lost their jobz, did you employ them back?
The ones that are being owed months and years of salary, you didn't hear about them?
The ones that are not paid there pension, you didn't hear about those one either?
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We all hate teachers
People may claim, " My teacher was the best" but still forget about his well being. The teacher will die alone in poverty while we are all here flexing iPhone X

[quote author=lawrenzooo post=81293558][/quote]Perhaps if teachers are Guaranteed their salaries, and pension they will stop compromising and speak truth 100% with full confidence.

Chithauri:
This so saddens me.

See it now
Everybody went to school and benefited from teachers
Ok now, pay the teachers well, you will not pay them
Remember your old teachers. No body gives a f***. Enter aeroplane and fly out of Nigeria.

Alright
You, Form a good school. Make it better than the one you attended.
No way. No one wants to do such task.

Now, one hat-wearing proprietress will come and fence one plot of land and with wooden bench and call it school. Una go send Pikin go there
Then now complain that the service is poor.

How the g**** f*** will the service not be poor? All the smart book people did not contribute anything to the school.

Sunsets:
You missed an opportunity to teach them Nigerian English instead your inferiority complex turned you to an emergency English lecturer - a failed one at that.
Please, how was your night? Deal with it.

OP has told you, that non of your local languages ever translates to "How was your night".
Nigerian English is the English we speak speak when we translate word for word from our native tounge into English. It's a funny English.

Yoruba will say, "Ejo, E ba mi sun" (inside the bus).
Translated to Nigerian English, it means, "Please help me shift"
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What it funny there is, I cannot HELP you shift. You have to shift with your own nyash, one by one
British English will say, "Please could you shift" or "Please could you shift FOR me.
(Shift your nyash by yourself, but do so because of me. I shall not HELP you push your GIGANTIC nyash.. You push your nyash by yourself)

So, "How was your night ?" is not anybody's language. It is not Nigerian English either.
As OP said, it intrudes upon one privacy .
And the answer is still, NONE OF YOUR GADDEM BUSINESSES.

IKennaGabriel:
If how was ur night is about sex. So what about how was ur day?

"How was your day?" is about WORK, the normal social activity that everyone sees each other doing with open, happy mind.
Every morning you wake up, is to enjoy the day and do some positive work, give some service, contribute to society.

Only a thief/criminal that did not succeed in stealing during the day will be angry when you ask him ," how was your day?". In that case, what are you even doing with such a person?

SeedofDavid:
This is not the first time I'm having this discussion. It gets worst worse that most sources use the same 'lie' to propagate this falsehood. I don't really have strength for this argument. You can stop asking people "How was your day/night/weekend etc".

Dude, learn English
How was your day? Fine (correct)
How was your night? (Wrong)

adetem:
Ok o, how was ur day? Is it for people that sick too or is not our business ... English people

My day was good.

One is expected to go about doing good things during the day. Doing social activities. That is a normal thing.
So one will answer you in a positive way.
My day was good.
I did good social activities.

Night is when one wishes to be alone, to sleep, to be with his wife...., To pray, to rest.
For those who are enduring suffering/hardship/sickness that they have been keeping secret from public view. They suffer/endure everything in the night.

It is non of your business what a person does in their house in the night.
If he wants to tell you, he can tell you.
But if not, it is none of your business.
Stop asking the question.

SeedofDavid:
This is a bigoted assertion. The people you claim to get this from still enquire of themselves, 'How was your night?'.

Don't just accept anything you see on the internet blindly. It was a person (probably more flawed than you are) that put it there.

If both parties are sex-sex people, they can ask each other how was your night, knowing 100% that it is sex they are discussing.

Ask me how was my night, I will slap you.

It is not your business how my night was.
I'm in your front looking at you. Stop asking me what I did in my house. It is not your business.

amnwa:
I pray nobody is hurt. Properties can always be replaced

Everything in this country is just a timebomb.
Being alive in Nigeria is really a miracle.

I keep saying it. If you have chance to leave this country. Don't think twice. It's for you own good and your children

Learn safety tips and be a survivalist.

odiereke:
God bless you two. It is a rare feat. Very very commendable.

Student doesn't have job.
Return the money to the owner.
In future, when you need job, go and meet owner of that money.

princeking2:
She caused it

Exactly
If she didn't dance such type to erotic dance in public, the man would have stayed.

People just be doing Shakara as if they don't know others are in serious deprivation and hardship around them.

Symphony007:
Nigeria is confused.
This is a Nigerian prison
And that is a correctional facility.

I really wish I could sit down with youth and we formulate a mini society/estate, where we handle everything A~Z.
From construction, to education, to morals to industry, production... Economy...
Everything.

Then use that model to formulate the rest of Nigeria.
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Many of our development problems are affected by tradition.

Pavore9:
Many leaves there hardened!

Many leaves

Rubbiish:
Anger everywhere in this country
Everybody just dey vex

When I was a kid back in the 80's, I could not imagine the future.
I used to ask my brother and sister what "Future" would be like. They'd just laugh and dodge the question.
There was program on TV then called "Space 1999". Spaceship flying up and down, people using TV wrist watch....

Na 1999 don pass 20years ago.

AND THERE'S STILL NO NEPA in my house.

Ah

money121:
Machine

This bike

This one

phkka1:
Madam you are using high level language to educate a less educated being.

So why is he a leader if he can't speak bug English?
Every time he has been going to London to meet Teresa May, are you not fearing that the Oyibo woman will speak one English Bubu will not understand, tomorrow UK will come and pursue you from your village to Guinea Bissau.

Hanks0000:
Black mentality

You are the type of fly that will follow a dead body into the grave.
Not everything western world does is correct.
Learn to tell right from wrong.
Am I to sit down and hear that my daughter went to beg a man to marry?
I mean, don't you have any sense of decency at all?

Only a prostitute lady does such kind of things.
Someone with NO family, NO morals.

Sterope:
Now, what is wrong with MSG? Is every living thing not made up of chemical?

Ok, next time you enter a chemistry lab, collect the chemicals and mix them anyhow you feel.

juman:
As you described it, its addiction.
He is addicted to the Ewa like some people are addicted to cigarette or alcohol.
He needs to grow up. Discuss with him your feeling about it.
Be reminding him about his addiction and need to grow over it.

By the way roadside food is not so good.

Roadside woman probably put this in the food, to hook customers
Afterall she must sell market as well.

Adewunmibaba:
Madam, don’t get ur husband wrong o, I , I mean myself can testify to that magodo Ewa, d bean too sweet , Eva since my colleague carry the beans come work ave loved it .sometime I do beg my colleague to help me buy when coming to work.

You People and over-sweat beans
Are you sure it it's not chemical that you are just eating?
Coca-Cola was once rumoured to put cocaine in their Coke. This was back in the 50s/60s.

sassysure:
And the ediot is proud of herself posting this on social media.
That cleaner should be sacked immediately.

I will say that the hospital should be sued but if she has an ss child, it probably may be that she has been coming to the hospital with such child so it's not reveal of confidential info from the hospital as the cleaner must have seen the ss child of the woman

But for making fun of her with such, she should be sacked immediately.
Even as a cleaner, there must be professionalism and respect to those that pay ur bill and that madam even with her harshness is among those who pay her bill.

What do you expect from a cleaner? She isn't educated and she hit the woman hard and perfect without holding back.
The Phd woman should know better to be humble.
Don't come to Nigeria and talk down to anyone.
Ordinary agbero can hold one to randsom.

Pacesetter123:
Said by who?

The law of nature.
The same law that makes the WOMAN bear the child.

It is NEVER her duty to propose.
Go against nature and face your destruction
Only whores RUN after a man.

donbachi:
Dat was why he refused...she's a man beater.

lady is not meant to propose to man.
It is TOTALLY wrong. That's why the man didn't answer.

Stingman:
Dey there...when some West African countries are already accepting the IDs

You mean all the atrocities committed by Yorubas will be transferred there? Will there be JANKARA human part market when Biafra comes?

Is it Biafra mobile network your phone is using?
Or your are still stealing our Nigerian mobile network space and infrastructure?
Una think say na to just print card? Any idiot can print card in a business center.

Stingman:
Some ladies saw huge Biafran notes sometimes ago...The notes have quality!

What about value?
That paper is of no value. All of it cannot buy you N50 meat for your soup.

GeoAfrikana:
I was in Lagos last week. It is indeed a splendid structure.

Is it being used?

tobtap:
...we need more of dis edifice...

But is it functional?

Emotionss:
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Please how much did it (dentures ) cost you ?

Nigerian dentures cost me N7000-N8000