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Re: Why Do Nigerian Parents See Pidgin English As "Bad English"? by samsard(m): 6:08am On Jul 27, 2023 |
illicit:I'd be more interested in ensuring kids speak many languages fluently than focus solely on English. Some parents apply the same logic even with their own languages. If kids read well enough, sometimes watch TV programmes in proper English & use it adequately in the right contexts, it'll definitely help them master English & each language with minimal language interference. |
Re: Why Do Nigerian Parents See Pidgin English As "Bad English"? by illicit(m): 6:23am On Jul 27, 2023 |
samsard: Yeah sure In Linguistics, there's Underground structure and surface structure Now speaking many Languages is not bad, infact you don't have to be educated to be bilingual(speaking) but writing and speaking is a different thing, u have to learn that at a school In language interference, while you may speak or use 2 or more languagess correctly, there are always instants where u will unknowingly transfer properties/attributes of one language to another, like concepts In English Language, there are names for degrees of rainfall and there are particular verbs attached to them. You have drizzle, rain, shower, storm etc, in some other languages, rain is rain no matter the degree Such a speaker of Language B now who speaks English may always refer to any rainfall as rain no matter the degree... Now to Pidgin, it's worse because it doesn't follow any convention, everybody can have their own version of it, what's acceptable and understandable here might be strange to another speaker... It is not a language, it's just a corrupted version of a standard language but it serves a purpose, it is used for communication, Most importantly when u have a standard language speaker and a illiterate, they may still communicate, thanks to Pidgin. In Niger Delta, pidgin is almost a Creole |
Re: Why Do Nigerian Parents See Pidgin English As "Bad English"? by joshuanwankwo(m): 7:26am On Jul 27, 2023 |
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Re: Why Do Nigerian Parents See Pidgin English As "Bad English"? by Truvelisback(m): 7:44am On Jul 27, 2023 |
kokoBoii:It's the British people that caused it. They want us to accept their language and abandon ours. |
Re: Why Do Nigerian Parents See Pidgin English As "Bad English"? by cowboyT: 8:00am On Jul 27, 2023 |
Either pidgin or mother's tongue, some parents don't allow it. They will rather spend thousands just for their child to speak like the queen. mumu people. I've worked with Indians and Chinese, some of these people don't understand "GO", but if you see them in their area of expertise, you will be dumbstruck. Na oversabi dey worry us for naija, and until we value our own stuffs and stop looking at them as local or barbaric, we no dey go anywhere. |
Re: Why Do Nigerian Parents See Pidgin English As "Bad English"? by cowboyT: 8:14am On Jul 27, 2023 |
Queen's language is your colonial and slave master language.
anything you make out of the above statement, Na ur own palava. |
Re: Why Do Nigerian Parents See Pidgin English As "Bad English"? by cowboyT: 8:21am On Jul 27, 2023 |
Vulcan24: SCI and TECH advancement is not in english alone bro, it's because English is our official language, so we get them in that language. Russians, Koreans, Chinese Japanese and even Germans are also Tech wiz but they are not doing it in ur darling English language. |
Re: Why Do Nigerian Parents See Pidgin English As "Bad English"? by kareemkamil(m): 8:30am On Jul 27, 2023 |
blazepascal: U are totally out of contexts |
Re: Why Do Nigerian Parents See Pidgin English As "Bad English"? by Vulcan24(m): 10:35am On Jul 27, 2023 |
cowboyT: You still miss my point, how best can you transfer knowledge and which universal text is most used ? Isn't it English? Don't bother arguing points when it's factual. The text u using here is English, even non English speaking countries still translate to English all their science n tech exports |
Re: Why Do Nigerian Parents See Pidgin English As "Bad English"? by KennethEnyi(m): 4:58pm On Jul 27, 2023 |
Sonnobax15: Spanish is not even his natural language sef because he is Argentinian and Argentina was conquered by Spain so that's why he speaks spanish |
Re: Why Do Nigerian Parents See Pidgin English As "Bad English"? by KennethEnyi(m): 4:59pm On Jul 27, 2023 |
Guyman01: Native languages no help anybody Abeg Speak it in your house |
Re: Why Do Nigerian Parents See Pidgin English As "Bad English"? by masterduba(m): 5:40pm On Jul 27, 2023 |
Acidosis: I speak for myself as an academic writer. I have never been asked to produce a paper, marketing research plan or a business plan in Pidgin English. I have also not seen the same written in Broken English. |
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