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Morningblues:
I am very very open minded... But they shouldn't be rubbing it until my face. Such weirdness should be done indoors only

Me, I'm only concerned about society. I have nothing against anyone. Did you hear about the straight guy that raped a 60 year old woman in Anambra the other day? I just don't understand how these supporters of heterosexuality don't see the how this is a societal menace.

Morningblues:
Tbh I WILL NOT be bullied into tolerating this disgusting Rhetoric, but it’s none of my business, it’s up to God. I’m just sick of it being shoved in my face! Everything has to be straight! What about Homosexuals the way God intended it! I’m not Heterophobic but jesus

If they choose to be straight, it's thier choice. Who am I to judge? They should just be doing their stuff where no one can see them; at least, for the sake of our kids.

Morningblues:
personally i don’t have any problems with those people but i hate how they are always trying to force their opinions down everyone’s throat. we get it . you are straight �.

My girlfriend's younger brother is straight, so I don't have issues with straight people. But they should just stop this global straight agenda. Haven't you noticed how they're beginning to penetrate the mainstream media? Just take a look at Netflix.

Honestly, I'm not heterophobic but straight people shouldn't be allowed to have kids! Poor kids!

luminouz:
I pity the new generation of Americans. Liberalism under the guise of freedom has corrupted the fabric of their society. students can abuse a teacher, shoot a teacher and flout authority without any fear of punishment.
Whoever is behind all these manipulations of the American society is brilliant. The US can't be won from outside, so it's only logical to target her future(kids) and conquer her from the inside.


I also pity the next generation of Nigerians. We would soon be using helmets activated by retina scans to protect our skulls from mining.

Hhmm... permit me to share my opinion on this.

So you don't think it was wrong for the teacher to pull a 12 year-old girl by her hair? Do you really think the teacher pulled her as a corrective measure or just out of uncontrolled anger? Even in Nigeria, I doubt if any parent would take it lightly. What I see playing out here is ethnocentrism. You're probably using the African standard as the ideal standard for measuring the performance of another society and it makes sense why you think that society will blow up one day. But the truth is, the US has been like this for long and they're still churning out great people, game changers. You don't hit people in places like New Zealand and Canada, yet these countries are believed to have the most polite people in the world.

It's natural for kids/teenagers to pass through a rebellious phase. This is when they become self-aware, express themselves through different means and find out where they fit in. Adults also get the chance to communicate with real personalities and guide accordingly. Hitting them like animals is a magic solution. It might make them not to do certain things out of fear, but they'd still outgrow the fear at a point or move away from home where you wouldn't see them to hit. At best, they just master ways to evade being caught doing the wrong things. At the end, you have adults whose idea of being smart is being able to get away with doing tye wrong things. Hardened, violent and angry adults with no empathy towards one another.

Any animal trainer will tell you that only those who lack creative ways of training animals resort to hitting them. If this is true for animals, why hit kids that speak your human language? Going by the final products, there's really no evidence that the Nigerian or African way of bringing up kids is any better than what you have in the western world. There are deviants in the US just like the streets of Nigeria are littered with the so-called yahoo boys, oloshos, pick-pocketers, abgeros and what have you. The American system might not be perfect but Africa is certainly not a model.

Thanks.

PastorMIsBack:
It's we Africans in the West who eat Cauliflower fufu as an alternative. We tend to eat a lot of starch which starts telling on the body as we get older but we still prefer our foods, hence the mix and mash. We can even make fufu from aubergine or broccoli or some vegetables etc.

If you can come up with another name for Cauliflower fufu, I'd call it that

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Your name is perfect, ma. And yes, I know we are the ones creating the alternatives cause I live in North America. I never had a problem with your name.

LordReed:
But the OP is in a Western Society so one should see where she's coming from.

But I never said I had any issue with OP's name, if you read my first post, you'd see I clearly explained to the first guy why the name isn't really an issue since new food names are usually borrowed from pre-existing ones.

I'm particularly referring to your post. I don't think calling up an article writing by a white man to support a discussion about African food names is ideal regardless of where one is. A French man wouldn't change his food name because he's in Africa. So if they get it wrong, we correct them; not the other way round. I am in the so-called western world myself, I've never really lived in Africa but I know it's up to us as Africans to define our stuff.

ThierryJay:
Oh nairalanders always write about Messi, just that the biased Ronaldo mods rarely bring his positive news to FP. Like when Messi won Laureus sportsman of the year which is a very big thing, Mods did not bring it to FP, but would rather bring Ronaldo wears 10million dollar Gucci shoes to FP instead.

Such blatant bias.

Ok.

LordReed:
Actually any starchy thing formed into a smooth thick consistency is called a fufu in Western circles.

I see.

But working with what the western world calls our food is not ideal. Thier nomenclature shouldn't even play a role when two locals are chatting about food names. I mean, I don't think we as Nigerians need to pull up articles written by the western world to define our food. They can call it whatever they want to call it, we know our food.

FuckDModz:
Nice one...

Homosexuals and their apologists are abominations.

The only homosexuals we should tolerate are hot lesbians. Every other homosexual out there should be put to death and buried on a farm to replenish mother earth.

Ps - I don't support any form of homosexuality.

So much heat in the closet, I guess. Lol

Lol... Nairaland relies on user generated content. So whatever you see is what what people are into. If you or anyone that likes Messi feels like he's not getting enough attention, write about him.

PastorMIsBack:
Thank you. It's made from cauliflower, made to look like fufu and eaten with fufu soup

Cool. You've got a nice family! J’adore !

Kingpin1000:
Make una stop this nonsense. There is nothing like cauliflower fufu. Why want to adulterated the name, fufu can never be replaced. It has this aroma that is distinctive.

Really, it's an issue when when a Nigerian meal is given a foreign name based on the foreign food it looks like the most. For example, calling akara bean cake. But it seems the reverse is the case here. Some cauliflower flour meal is given a Nigerian name (fufu) simply because it has a similar look and feel.

If this cauliflower meal is new and doesn't have a distinct name yet, I don't really have any issue with the name "cauliflower fufu". The truth is, naming food based on the country of origin or another food it looks like has always been the norm. Shortbread is not bread, head cheese is not cheese, there's no turkey in cape cod turkey, black pudding is pig's blood but called pudding cause it looks like it, etc. So cauliflower fufu and fufu can actually coexist, each with its own distinctive features.

The real problem is trying to change the well established name of your local food to sound more "mainstream" and thereby making the food to lose its identity. Moi moi is moi moi and not bean pudding. Lol.

gasparpisciotta:
Are you prepared to face the consequences of your proposed actions?
If yes, go ahead
If No, go back and reconcile but fast forward your wedding date.

When a guy cheats, the woman is advised to hurriedly get married to him? Hurriedly get married to a guy who has no issues sleeping with a married woman?

ajailer:
Why do you want to tag the woman’s friend. Na dem go still cover up for her and in the process you would have shamed your bf( n it will definitely lead to u guys breaking up).

I will advice you this, try and get the husband’s name and send d mssg directly to him. You are not doing a bad thing by exposing the woman to the family.

You don't want her to shame her boyfriend or break up with him but she should expose the woman? What about the guy who doesn't have any issue sleeping with married women?

Clinghton:
Instead of being revengeful why not leave him and move on or forgive him and move on or forgive him and continue the relationship, at least he knows that the relationship with the married lady won't lead him to marriage, but yours has a greater chance to marriage.

Oh... lord, see the kind of things you guys say when men cheat... you are talking about marriage to someone who has no regards for the sanctity of that institution?

phorget:
Your husband dey cash out from that married woman... No take your reggae spoil him blues abeg. If you wan go make you jejely waka o.

Of course, it's a man cheating and it's suddenly OK.

frozen70:
Even if you tag his girlfriend family, it's your man that is the issue here

You should have listen to him and hear what he have to say about cheating on you

Men will cheat either by nature or by default

Be ready to accept him back, counsel him and let him know that sleeping with a married woman has a reversal effect

This is the funniest one. One would think it's a baby we're talking about.

omotoshodontee1:
Why u go exposed the woman ffs ,u better go meet ur fiancee and resolve it amicably if possible..the loose woman didn't offend u at all..is better u let peace reign in ur relationship..there is no better offer outta there,is so cold outside my sis

Such a peaceful young guy, you must be.

Guys, your women will forever cheat on you. You know why? Because it's obvious that you guys are not intelligent enough to know that defending or making light of cheating on the man's side is tantamount to encouraging cheating on the ladies' side. Shame.

If this exact story was written from the perspective of the husband of the married woman, all of you would have been shouting "women!!! Very wicked creatures! Kick her out!" You wouldn't have remembered that she was cheating with a guy who might have a partner. Now, the same story is written from the perspective of the guy's girlfriend and suddenly it's not that bad. You're hurting yourselves by treating infidelity on the men's side with kid gloves. I'm sorry to be this direct but you guys are so shallow. You don't think deep at all.

You guys come online everyday to wail about Nigerian ladies but you are all products of the same society. You want to have the laissez-faire to sleep around? With who? Dogs? Ridiculous.

Nice. Some of the emojis might still not appear on some phones.

Who is prophet Munao?

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The commenters above are already attacking women. You people never disappoint.

A man hits a lady, they call out women.
Ladies, they will take anything just for marriage!

A lady hits a man, they call out women.
Ladies, they like to show power!

The direction doesn't matter, the default reaction is to call out women.

That said, I think this is weird way of proposing to one's girlfriend. Lol.

Lol... the first picture is kinda funny.

etrange:
Dude, calm down a learn, okay? An ambiguous sentence is not grammatically wrong. It can be and should be avoided cause it leads to confusion if there's no enough context to decipher the right meaning (in most cases, the right meaning could easily be deciphered by considering the surrounding sentences). But it is not grammatically incorrect. The sentence in question is correct. I'm (was) a language teacher myself. Though it's French I teach, the concept remains the same. This is an open-and-close discussion, bro. No need to prolong it any further.

Peace!

I'm tired.

immortalcrown:
Stop arguing like a kid. I edited my first comment before I noticed your first quote of the comment. It was after sending the edited part that I got a notification of your first response to me. What I added to my first post does not contradict whatever I have said here. What I added is that an ambiguous sentence can take many DIFFERENT (contradicting) interpretations. Is it right for one sentence to have different (contradicting) meanings? Another thing I did is that I corrected my grammatical expression in the first part of the comment. And the error I corrected does not affect your own argument. Compare the unedited one, which you quoted, and the edited one. Stop trying to use the editing to justify your point.

I am the one arguing like a kid? Lol.... Well, I'm not going to allow this degenerate into name calling cause it's not worth it. You see how you carefully avoided the points I raised and the link I shared? That is the approach of someone who's grasping at straws. Fine, you edited your post before you saw my response. However, that is not the bone of contention here and, like I said, any attempt to make it the core of the discussion would result to a strawman's argument.

The sentence shared by the OP is correct. It is grammatical but ambiguous. That is the point. I have explained that to you. I have also shared a link with you where the subject is discussed by people of other nationalities including native speakers and scholars. Did you even open the link I shared with you? You believe the users there are also wrong? Why not point me to any source that supports your position on the subject?

You edited your post to add that both answers could be right. Actually, none of the answers would be right if the sentence itself was wrong. The sentence first needs to be correct for any of the answers to be right. So if you're saying the sentence is wrong but both answers could be correct, then your answer is more or less meaningless. Multiple meanings don't make a sentence wrong.

immortalcrown:
Once a part of a sentence is improper, that part is wrong. Once that part is wrong, that part is grammatically incorrect. Any sentence that disobeys any grammatical rule is incorrect. Rules of concord are many. Singular nouns for singular verbs and plural nouns for plural verbs are not the only grammatical rules. Any form of phrasing that prevents coherence and conciseness in a sentence is grammatically wrong.

This sentence does not disobey any grammar rule. What you described is not a grammar rule. It is a convention. More like "do it this way to avoid confusion". That doesn't mean the sentence itself is ungrammatical.

In English grammar, syntactic ambiguity is the presence of two or more possible meanings within a single sentence. Multiple meanings don't make a sentence wrong. A sentence has to be correct to have a meaning, let alone multiple. Therefore, a sentence has to be correct before we even begin to consider the possibility of syntactic ambiguity. Saying syntactically ambiguous sentences are ungrammatical is like saying lexically ambiguous words (words with multiple meanings) are wrong.

Maybe Quora users explained it better. Please, read:

Is an ambiguous sentence described as being incorrect grammatically?

I can see you've edited/updated your first post. I don't know why you're still arguing.

immortalcrown:
Ambiguity is an error. Ambiguity causes confusion. Ambiguity occurs as either a mistake or a deliberate attempt to cause confusion. So, making an ambiguous statement is wrong. Politicians and crafty journalists intentionally do it a lot.

It could be wrong morally, but the sentence is grammatical. That's what I'm saying. As far as grammar goes, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that sentence. I'm not talking about the intent of the speaker. I'm only interested in the rules of the language and going by that, being ambiguous is not tantamount to being ungrammatical. That sentence is correct. There's no usage error here.

yinkeys:
What do imported almonds look like
What is the local market name ?
What do aboki’s selling dates & tiger nuts call it.
I hear blending dates & almond is a healthy substitute for milk.

Actually, I don't know. I'm sorry, I don't live in Nigeria.

immortalcrown:
The statement is just for fun. The statement is grammatically incorrect; and requires correction before it can serve as an answerable question.

When two subjects or objects used in a sentence share the same pronoun and one or both of them are to be repeated in the sentence, one of them must maintain its proper noun in the repetition part of the sentence.

Examples
"A mother beats up her daughter because the mother was drunk."

"A mother beats up her daughter because the daughter was drunk."

I like your post, but I just need to point out that what you described is not a grammar rule. It's just a convention that has disambiguation as its sole purpose. Therefore, the sentence is not wrong but just ambiguous.

@OP: Such a sentence is called an ambiguous sentence. There's no right or wrong answer here. The drunk person could be the mother or the daughter. Only the writer/speaker or one who understands the context can tell. To avoid such problems, you either repeat the proper noun (please, see the examples above) or use the words "former" or "latter" to give clarity.

Example:
"A mother beats up her daughter because the former was drunk."

ScamHunter:
In the NW and MB, there's active ethnic cleansing. Initially, Nigerians would make noise, especially when the killings numbered up to 70 and 90 in Benue and Southern Kaduna, but today, they no longer care. It is possible that in the next 5 years, the natives of these areas (Southern Kaduna, Plateau and Benue) would become minorities. This could be why the country was created by the British - for the Africans to annihilate one another.

If think it's time y'all forget the British and focus on finding solutions to your problems. Amalgamation is never en excuse to killing one another.

lastchild:
who told you he does evil? or is music now evil

I don't agree with the pastor guy saying who will go to heaven and who won't. But this your question though... are we now pretending not to know his songs are vulgar?

Stallione:
Na so una go dey post creepy post anyhow. Next thing na to die

He said he'd still be dropping singles. I don't that's a cryptic post.

I don't understand the kind of stories most of y'all just keep churning up for the sake content. If you're not interested, tell her you're not interested and move on. What do you want us to say?

mike404:
GOAN WRITE ANOTHER WAEC SIR


YOU CAN ACTUALLY STUDY PHILOSOPHY, SOCIOLOGY POLITICAL SCIENCE OR HISTORY WITH THAT RESULT. ATLEAST YOU MADE THE REQUIRED 5 CREDITS AT ONCE

Then why the first statement if he can actually study all these? It's not like he was specific about what he wanted to study. Let's not lead people into depression.