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Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Nobody: 4:14am On Apr 11, 2012 |
Ghana calls an end to tyrannical reign of the Queen's English |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Nobody: 4:16am On Apr 11, 2012 |
I need to start perfecting my pidgin engrish ohhhh... Wetin dey my padi?? How far na? Omo boy don dey sabi speak pidgin oh, nuttin do you my guy.. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Beaf: 4:22am On Apr 11, 2012 |
shymmex: I need to start perfecting my pidgin engrish ohhhh... You sound as annoying as the Ghanaian example (almost threw up when I read it). There is nothing like "dey" in Pidgin, except you want to pose as a LAFA. The word is "de." You can be excused with "deh." Anyway, good effort. I too believe that we should dump English for Pidgin. I wonder if it is possible to develop while speaking a fake language. We express ourselves much better and much more naturally in Pidgin. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Nobody: 4:24am On Apr 11, 2012 |
No thank you. Anybody with a strong mindset to compete in the GLOBAL economy should not even pay attention to this foolery. I can speak Yoruba and English. That is good enough for me. A lil spanish here and there would have been nice too, but I'm not bothered. Those foo should learn how to speak English. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Beaf: 4:25am On Apr 11, 2012 |
In the next 5 years, the global economy will have little to do with English. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Nobody: 4:27am On Apr 11, 2012 |
^^^ And that assumption is based on what little evidence? |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Beaf: 4:36am On Apr 11, 2012 |
What do you mean little evidence? The World economy has gone East, the craze among big business in Europe is learning Mandarin. English will remain ubiquitous, but increasingly unimportant to the global economy. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Nobody: 4:40am On Apr 11, 2012 |
^^^ Language does not necessarily become more or less important solely on economic shift. Take spanish for example. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Nobody: 4:43am On Apr 11, 2012 |
And 5 years to boot? ehn, I fear Nigerian man's statistics. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Beaf: 4:52am On Apr 11, 2012 |
Ileke-IdI: Spanish is unimportant. It is widely spoken, but of little economic use; its importance has gone South with the diminishing of Spain. Just like in todays World, Queens English is almost a museum piece that has long been overtaken by American English. That dialect of English too will wane with America's dimming economic star. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Nobody: 5:00am On Apr 11, 2012 |
Beaf: Have you recently tried to apply for job? Not talking about NL job. I disagree with your misconception of the spanish language and its importance. The onset of Spanish importance in North America had nothing to do with Spain and its economy. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Nobody: 5:05am On Apr 11, 2012 |
Ok, maybe "had nothing to do with Spain" was over stretching it. But beginning of the 90s, Spanish importance in North America had little to nothing to do with Spain. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Beaf: 5:08am On Apr 11, 2012 |
Ileke-IdI: Its because of Mexico. North America is not the World either. I don't see anywhere else outside of the likes of Mexico where Spanish is of any real economic importance. We are better off speaking languages which are more natural to us, than struggling to keep up with second languages that are waning in importance anyway. It is proven that children learn better in their mother tongue and after that, languages that are similar to their mother tongue. English has nothing to do with us and little to offer us developmentaly. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Nobody: 5:15am On Apr 11, 2012 |
Beaf: |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by ektbear: 6:05am On Apr 11, 2012 |
We have an edge over China and Asian countries in speaking English, the international language of business. India has taken this advantage and turned it into money...nearly every time I speak to a customer service rep for an electronics store i'm talking to some guy/gal in India over the phone. Needlessly throwing away your edge makes absolutely no sense. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by ektbear: 6:07am On Apr 11, 2012 |
And while Mandarin is increasing in value relatively speaking, English is still #1. And will be #1 for the foreseeable future (at least for the next ~100 years.) Even if you don't like the economic prospects of the US, Canada, Australia and Europe who all use it as the language of business, India dey...and will be more populous than China if it isn't already. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by chic2pimp(m): 7:46pm On Apr 11, 2012 |
"Clear and Precise" diction. That to me is key. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by igbo2011(m): 11:08pm On Apr 11, 2012 |
All of Africa should speak one language. I don't really care what the language is but we should speak one. We choose the Pan African language: KiSwahili. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by DuduNegro: 2:24pm On Apr 12, 2012 |
All of Africa should speak one language. I don't really care what the language is but we should speak one. We choose the Pan African language: . . . .watch it dude! ![]() |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by gidiMonsta(m): 11:51am On Apr 13, 2012 |
No serious country can adopt a pseudo-language as its official language, its called pidgin because its a corruption of a language! However, I am of the opinion that we should de-emphasize the importance of English language in our educational system and standardize a few of our local languages to adopt as part of our official languages as practised in SA and India. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by honeric01(m): 12:11pm On Apr 13, 2012 |
una don start to dey argue like small pikin, oya argue in pidgin if dem born una well ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Nobody: 3:55pm On Apr 16, 2012 |
gidiMonsta: No serious country can adopt a pseudo-language as its official language, its called pidgin because its a corruption of a language!That's right. |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by safarigirl(f): 2:39am On Apr 17, 2012 |
Na dem sabi ![]() |
Re: Ghana Urges End To Queen's English! - Naija, It's Time To Adopt Pidgin!!! by Beaf: 3:30am On Apr 17, 2012 |
gidiMonsta: No serious country can adopt a pseudo-language as its official language, its called pidgin because its a corruption of a language! American English is a corruption of Queens English. |
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