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Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by oah333(m): 3:04pm On Jul 16, 2006
Its not difficult to find a translator on the net
Ok, lets try it out and see if it works.
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English :  It is a good day to be on the beach

Pidgin : na di guud day fo bi on di beach .

Igbo:  ya na mma otu ubochi na na na onu mmiri .
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I ony speak english and use this little translator to understand some of your posts a little better 

How did it do ?

Actuallly, not too good. That reads like Creole, not Nigerian Pidgin.
Many ethnic groups in Nigeria would translate that sentence in different ways, but the way in which you put it is, to me, not the way a Nigrian would put it.

'Today too bam. Make we waka go beach'. Or, with a little science twist: 'Today jus jel. Make we evaporate, come condense for beach.' are some of the ways in which that stuff of yours can be put.

Keep on trying though. It's nice to know someone is interested in it.
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by Teezy(f): 10:54pm On Jul 18, 2006
I try speaking pidgin to my parents as much as i can lolz, sometimes im clueless as to want im tryna say but i really im starting to learn some cheesy cheesy Even my dad can speak some pidgin lol n hes Puerto rican! When we have vistors n my dad is tryna say stuff without letting anyone else know, he speaks spanish n pidgin mixed with like yoruba. It's totally hilarious cheesy i understand almost everything but i just cant speak it! sad
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by MerC2(f): 1:15pm On Jul 21, 2006
OMFG!!! shocked
Who are all these pplz criticizing pidgin?
INFACT!!! I go give una coverface now o!!! angry
AH AHN!! Pidgin na the main lingo now!
YES O! I speak pidgin to ma parents! ALWAYS!
Even ma popsy wey hard pass army general.
Warri pidgin if I like sef. As in, I LOVE PIDGIN ENLGISH!!!
I think aloib and I are alike!!!
No matter how ma accent changes. French o! Spanish o!
British o! American o! I must still yarn pidgin!
Ma kids will learn it o!! They must!! lol

SHUUOO!!! wettin na?! Pidgin shud even become
national lingo jare!! I mean who no dey speak brokin
abeg!! SIDON DIA!!! cheesy cheesy
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by aloib(f): 1:20pm On Jul 21, 2006
bwhahahaha mer.c boku hahahaah that was funny

no mind them jare
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by iice(f): 1:25pm On Jul 21, 2006
I swear no mind them oh, me and aloib don retire lol but we still they rock the pidgin as always,
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by aloib(f): 1:32pm On Jul 21, 2006
lmao sis, i seriously don tire i go dey rock that pidgin till i die, i swear
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by MerC2(f): 1:38pm On Jul 21, 2006
OMO!!! even to ma friends here
if den tell me sontin wey I no like
I go jus tell dem "na una sabi"
Den go dey look me like mumu
but wettin be ma own? if u no undastand
na ma problem? Na ur own cup of kunu be that o!
seriously, witout pidgin I no go fit communicate well.
I need to express maself well well!
se una get?  wink
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by iice(f): 1:42pm On Jul 21, 2006
I get u wella Mer C, pidgin fit get d point across dan english wey na long road 2 explain sunthin wey u jst do one time and shap shap 4 pidgin,
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by MerC2(f): 1:51pm On Jul 21, 2006
U GET AM!!! Baba God bless u!!!
Yes ke!! instead of blowing
all dat grammar and all
dat phoney, blow brokin!
ONE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All these ppl wey dey mescaform sef!
Big boyz and big gals!! OK NOW!!
We go see. . .
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by retro(f): 2:05pm On Jul 21, 2006
Hello. I be a Nigerian o o. Lmfao!
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by MerC2(f): 2:05pm On Jul 21, 2006
LOL! I can teach u if u want retro.
Fo real! It's easy!! I think undecided
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by retro(f): 2:07pm On Jul 21, 2006
Wooot! Thanks. I've been watching Nigerian movies lately and have been catching on a lot of things. It's so odd!
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by MerC2(f): 2:11pm On Jul 21, 2006
Kool. . .
u'll catch it with time.
Interesting lingo I tell ya! cheesy
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by aloib(f): 2:18pm On Jul 21, 2006
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by retro(f): 2:19pm On Jul 21, 2006
Lol. It's really interesting!
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by retro(f): 2:20pm On Jul 21, 2006
Thanks!
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by iice(f): 2:26pm On Jul 21, 2006
Retro, next time u'll be a pro and blasting pidgin like the rest of us lol
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by retro(f): 2:27pm On Jul 21, 2006
I have one; I'm an Agaracha. Woooot!
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by MerC2(f): 3:03pm On Jul 21, 2006
agaracha ke? dis gal no kno wettin
she dey yarn o! ashewo ke?
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by retro(f): 3:04pm On Jul 21, 2006
? Lmao. I saw it from the site Aloib posted.
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by aloib(f): 3:05pm On Jul 21, 2006
hahahahaha merc, na from that link, u know sey diff meanings dey
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by retro(f): 3:08pm On Jul 21, 2006
WOAH! Nooo! I missunderstood! I'm not a prostitute! I just looked up ashewo! LMAOO!
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by MerC2(f): 3:13pm On Jul 21, 2006
LMAO!!! cheesy
retro please u're too funny!!!
CHAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!
I have laughed so much that I
can't laugh no more! phew! cheesy cheesy cheesy
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by retro(f): 3:33pm On Jul 21, 2006
Mer-C:

LMAO!!! cheesy
retro please u're too funny!!!
CHAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!
I have laughed so much that I
can't laugh no more! phew! cheesy cheesy cheesy

embarassed
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by MerC2(f): 3:47pm On Jul 21, 2006
@ retro
kiss kiss kiss kiss GROS BISOUXXXX
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by retro(f): 3:53pm On Jul 21, 2006
Merci!
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by naijadiva2(f): 6:15pm On Jul 21, 2006
i speak pigdin a little to my mom, grandma, uncle, and anut and that's it, nut usually when we are joking or when we are in public and i don't want people to know what i am saying. i never speak pidgin to my dad because he hates pidgin. he only speaks pidgin when he has to, like when every single person in the roomis speaking it. other than that, he hates it.
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by kellorah: 6:25pm On Jul 21, 2006
i like pidgin. i'll speak it with my kids (hopefully).so we can gossip and yab peeps without them knowing!! hehehehehehe(laughs evily!!!!!!!)
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by MerC2(f): 6:28pm On Jul 21, 2006
EXACTLY KELLORAH!!
Good Lingo!!! BLESS!! cheesy
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by kellorah: 6:32pm On Jul 21, 2006
merci! wink
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by MerC2(f): 6:53pm On Jul 21, 2006
De rien Kellorah! smiley


Ma momsy & I, we been dey
yan pidgin jus now sef.
She too been talk say make
wan person raise voice because
time don reach fo to make pidgin
national language fo naija.
Nobody wey dey naija wey no sabi pidgin.
Weda u be hausa abi delta, everybody dey yan
brokin. So why we no suppose make am
national language na? Anyhow sha, I hope
say person get the same idea as us.
Re: How Many Of You Speak Pidgin To Your Parents? by kellorah: 7:23pm On Jul 21, 2006
abi ohhhhhh
which one be 'correct english'?no b the one wey oyibo dem get?
pidgin na our own abeg!!!

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