Comments on: English

By: olderwhiteamericangf(aka gonagetmedisowned)

olderwhiteamericangf(aka gonagetmedisowned) — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:52:54 +0000

I love the way Nigerians text. Everytime I read a text from my Nigerian boyfriend I can hear his voice, because the text message is written exactly the way he pronounces things. Other people will shorten words to make them fit, but a Nigerian will alter the word to make the pronunciation Naija-fied.

By: Emeka

Emeka — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:43:40 +0000

Ok. it’s called pidgin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin). I hope u feel the same way when you hear an American say “Twenny” instead of “TWENTY”, or when they say crap like “Imma let you finish” instead of “I’m going to let you finish” or “Gonna” instead of “Going to”… I could go on for miles,.. bad english isn’t just a Nigerian thing. Everybody partakes and just ‘cos u think it sounds ‘cool’ doesn’t make it any more correct than Sillpass or trafficate! They are all the same,.. MADE UP WORDS spoken with BAD ACCENTS!

By: Kola

Kola — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:35:18 +0000

LOLLL yeah. I’d have to say that the top three names that get a whooping are Kingsley (KEE-n-Z–i-lee), Florence (floor-hence), and Fatimah (far-tee-mah-too)

http://www.betamotivation.com

By: Kola

Kola — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:31:35 +0000

wait. wait. wait. so trafficate is not a real word? LOOLLLL dang. i wonder what other crap i’ve been saying with so much confidence.

Cheers,
Kola
http://www.betamotivation.com

By: abi

abi — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:20:54 +0000

How about how we like to use two-worded insults: “stupid fool” “bloody fool” “stupid idiot” “compound fool”, etc. I think insults “enter well well” when they contain more than one word!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:19:24 +0000

haha I remember a time when I was little & I asked my aunt if we could go to the zoo. She asked me why & I said I wanted to see the hippopotamus. Then she looked at me like “whaaat?” Then she asked me to repeat what I said & I said “hippopotamus?” Then she said, “You mean HEE-POE-POE-TAH-MUSS?” Mannn, me & my sister was rollinn’ !

And I was talking to my mom one day, & I said “Hyperbole” & she said, “That is not how you pro-nouse it. It is ‘Hii-Pahh-Bowl’ ” Haha. Good Times.

By: Amenta

Amenta — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:28:23 +0000

This so interesting. I suppose making English over gives it a bit more flavor…LOL. I know growing up in the U.S,. we invented words that just makes sense to us or double up on words as well. Something that is really good is the good good. Very “spicey” is hot hot. While playing ball and we needed cleats with better grip and traction we needed more gription…LOL! And, my father’s favorite subjects were Maff, Anglish and Helt, and he is from Mississippi!

By: Lucid Lilith

Lucid Lilith — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:22:03 +0000

LMAO!!!
I remember primary school. That was the high point of my Eeengiri and Eeengiri-Igbo.
“I wii te teeesha and teeesha wii beetyuu”

OR this chant:

Onwele otu mbosi
N fu nwa snake agwo
N chuo ya run oso
Ogbapulu house uno
N tuuta knife nnma
N cutuo head isi
Ogba wa blood nmmiri
O die ya dead onwu

By: madame

madame — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:53:47 +0000

LOL!!!
jump up mehn.. aka “i fear ground”
talk about creativity…lol

By: madame

madame — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:52:23 +0000

lmao…additional assignments BEYOND your scope? your dad is my hero!

By: madame

madame — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:50:34 +0000

-”madame d madame”
-”pure water tutu re”
-”breadiii agege”
-passenger: “conductor, abeg my change!, driver, OWA o!”

i miss lagos

a friend’s friend is called RUZZEH…
his name is really RUSSEL.

we need to legalize “trafficate”, it cannot NOT be a word

I <3 my nigerianNESS

By: yinkuslolo

yinkuslolo — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:39:30 +0000

yo!!!!!!!!!!!

i have asked so many yankee folks about that word to and no one knows it. just cant stop using it.

By: Oddie M

Oddie M — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:44:42 +0000

Oh my, you have that problem too??
if I want to refer to some of my aunts and uncles, i just cant say the right thing.. I have to shorten it or use the accent they use..my dad’s name is George but his mum kept calling him Gerog-EY… growing up I actually thought his name was Georgey….went to school one day talking about my dad Georgey and my mum ESTA(Esther)..SMH

By: Oddie M

Oddie M — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:40:37 +0000

You always have a way of having the funniest comments…dad took everything in school from his-TORY to Mass(maths) to phycis(physics)…BOY!

Had this teacher in high school when I was in Nigeria who just could not get along with English.. she always had to murder something….and mischievous me made a book of all the English errors my teachers use to make…almost got myself expelled….LOL

By: Oddie M

Oddie M — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:31:38 +0000

ROTFLMAO!!!…..hahahahahaha….

reminds me of how I always thought my aunt Maureen as aunt Moree-in..take note of the hyphen cos that’s actually how they kept pronouncing it.. and my mum who happens to be Esther is called ESTA! and aunt Veronica is aunt VERO.

By: Oddie M

Oddie M — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:23:29 +0000

HAHAHAHAHA! too funny…

By: Oddie M

Oddie M — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:19:58 +0000

cos we call the blinker “trafficator” in England it just made more sense when my parents use 2 say trafficate. little did i know that Nigerians however found a way to add that one to the dictionary…

and growing up, i assumed every SUV was a JEEP..Thanks to mum and dad that called SUV Jeeps regardless if it is a Toyota, Chevy or other SUV….it was simply ” A JEEP”

By: Chinwe

Chinwe — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:40:58 +0000

went to Naija last summer.. and in Abuja they had some housing developments by a construction company “Berger”… took me the whole 2 months to realize this because everyone was saying “Beh-gga” lol

By: P.A.

P.A. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:07:17 +0000

CALSHUM!!
Nigerian parents always think that they know what is good for our health….if anything is wrong with you, let you have a simple headache, “have you POOHED?” Not having a bowel movement will cause cancer, headaches, colds, sleep deprivation, back pain, etc. to them lol
But it’s ok for them to pour a whole bottle of palm oil in soup or stew?!?!

General rule of thumb:
If a word has -ER at the end…it is now “AH”…Bittah leaf (bitter leaf), watah (water), daughtah (daughter), etc.
And my Igbo name is Ihuoma, but I get called Ifeoma, Ijeoma, etc. all the time by ANties and ONcles (aunties and uncles). And I know everyone has a relative with an English name that you can’t say “normally” because it just doesn’t sound right? Like you HAVE to say it in the accented way your parents say it or else nobody will know who you are talking about.

And about MATHS, I remember asking my dad for help on some fractions homework (way before Algebra), and he bust out with X=this and y=that…I was like wth is this?

By: P.A.

P.A. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:44:28 +0000

LMAO…