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Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by nefertiitii: 7:18pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by ajf(m): 7:19pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
MissMeiya:Please educate me. What language is the United State of America's official language?? |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by IYANGBALI: 7:20pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
nefertiitii:who be cynthia? |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by SeverusSnape(m): 7:22pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
Octaves:okay Boss |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by piagetskinner(m): 7:26pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
....And I'm like, this OP has just written a whole load of baloney |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by nefertiitii: 7:27pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by Nobody: 7:27pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
Keenysbojan:well the sentence "i was like ok"....is very correct. It hasn't violated any law of grammar. |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by Nobody: 7:28pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
No offense OP but you are dull. "I have been trying your number since I left Lagos and I WAS LIKE OK LET ME CALL YOUR YOUNGER BROTHER TO CONFIRM.." Its not "I was like OK let me call your younger brother to confirm it" as you put it. RATHER IT'S: I was like, "OK. let me call your younger brother to confirm" And it's not bad English as you wrongly put it. 1 Like |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by IYANGBALI: 7:30pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
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Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by Nobody: 7:30pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
Lilimax:grammatical wise it's very correct,it's yet to violate any grammar law. |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by IYANGBALI: 7:34pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
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Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by IYANGBALI: 7:36pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
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Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by nefertiitii: 7:37pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by IYANGBALI: 7:42pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
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Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by WoodcrestMayor(m): 7:43pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
I tink itz more appropriate/acceptable to put it dis way... ...and I said to myself "why not call his brother?" blah blah blah ![]() |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by Nobody: 7:47pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
They think it is ''swag'' as they call it. What most of them do not know is that this way of talking is actually Street, Low Class and Trashy English. Only illiterates who were brought up in ghettos or the streets talk like that. The moment a lady or man talks this way, I immediately sum you up as Illiterate or semi literate, an uninformed mind and a street trash wannabe. |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by engrsoma(m): 7:48pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
I was like ok, to me is wrong. Even "As in" is wrong. It is not all about communicating with people that understand what you are saying, its about communicating with everyone in General. |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by Nobody: 7:54pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
dabriggs:Have a rest already, Mr Noble Snob. have you been to Buckingham palace? do you know cornwall or anywhere in england? plug the hypercorrect-incorrectness already. 2 Likes |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by adconline(m): 7:55pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
Trying to copy Americana.. 1 Like |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by mctons: 7:59pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
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Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by ThaProphet(m): 8:03pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
Exactly! Some just don't get it! Don't give up yet, though. It's people like you that we need to get out of this mess. milychocs: 1 Like |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by Nobody: 8:04pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
spotit: So, Mr unrefined and servile, one must have been to Buckingham Palace or know somewhere in England to speak properly? Well, I am a noble and there isn't equality on earth. I will keep silent and not comment on this any further as a noble should. It is obvious you want to act your class and pick an e-fight. |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by Enahi(f): 8:10pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
Keenysbojan:Lol no I didn't o,what's the meaning of School? Teach me,teacher. |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by Enahi(f): 8:11pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
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Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by Nobody: 8:15pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
dabriggs:Now, you have spoken as the fool that you are. Tune to BBC country/traditional radio/tv talkshows and listen to sound speech from discussants(they use these phrases even in formal speech). I have studied and lived/worked in England since only-god-knows and I have lived with Americans and Aussies, Mr Iambetter Thanyou. Don't pontificate using your creek grammar as your beacon. Who gave you noble? I bet I can sell you the Brooklyn Bridge if you're pleased by my wicked metaphoricals. You and who to efight? I'll just slap out the gray matter from your skull. Cheeky tool. |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by Nobody: 8:16pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
Cabinbiscuit:God bless you,instead it's the op who is terribly wrong for not putting a comma(,) before the o.k. 1 Like |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by saintneo(m): 8:26pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
Keenysbojan: "I was like ok" is correct in a descriptive sentence. "I was like........", "ok........"description of the action carried out. BTW this is not a Nigerian invention, I think it is American. The first time I heard was in the Avatar: The Last Airbender series, usually used by Sokka the non-bender from the southerrn water tribe. |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by ONYEBALL: 8:29pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
NOTHING DO UNA*lights a big jumbo of marijuana,sits down with a bottle of vodka*just observing 8-) |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by Nobody: 8:34pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
hoyinkansola:LIKE SERIOUSLY is also nigerian english..... |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by Otunbakay(m): 8:34pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
The statement "I was like, okay" is very correct grammatically. But the problem lies in the context in which it is used, mostly by our girls. Now consider the sentence; I was like your father when I was his age. Now if I don't want to complete the statement for reasons best known to me, I could say; I was like, okay let me not go into that, I ..... My submission 1 Like |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by Nobody: 8:36pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
frustratedman: Oboy, madness get level o. Your own na grade A. |
Re: The Use Of 'i Was Like Ok' By Nigerian Students by Nobody: 8:37pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
saintneo: Correct. I wonder why people think its Nigerian. 1 Like |
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