davidif:


I tried reading Naija newspaper and got was it tiresome. First of all, it's as if this guys were not taught how to summarize in journalism school. There reports are waaaaaay too long.
Secondly, the language is not even easy to follow and It looks like some of the writers are F. Scott Fitzgerald wannabe's they make it hard to read at times.
Lastly, there is waaaaaay too much fluff in the papers. If they will cut it down and tge unnecessary interviews with every politician who has ever served Nigeria since 1960 the average newspaper would probably be 10 pages at most.

Ighoga898:

the thing just weak me

Vorigo:
Anyone with a Nokia 1100 charger?

kpaminose:
We speak Nigerian English not Auzy, BrE, or NAE. If you don't like it, go hug transformer.

OneManLegion:
A lot of people claim fluency in English is not a sign of intelligence. While i share in their misery caused by the Patrick Obahiagon's of this world, I choose to disagree with that belief.
It takes a lot of cognitive strength to attain a commendable level of proficiency in a foreign language.

However, grandiloquence or verbosity isn't necessarily a sign of intelligence. In fact, most people who employ verbose verbiages are those who wish to be acknowledged as possessing superior intellect.

Chiefpriest1:
Lol. Pure and undiluted verbosity. These are the little things they teach in regular journalism training sessions.

Unfortunately, not up to three of the hundreds of media houses in Nigeria organise training classes for their reporters/editors.

Simple rules: 1. if you can say it in three words , don't use five.

2. Keep it simple

Yesterday on twitter , somebody fried ordinary puff puff and called it mascourdes esculante or something.

Its just like the SGF cutting ordinary grasses for N250m and calling it 'degrassification of riverine pines '

When dem wan steal, them go dey use big grammar.

tuscani:
Yes, let me go and come and bring it

kpaminose:
We speak Nigerian English not Auzy, BrE, or NAE. If you don't like it, go hug transformer.

DavidEsq:
Nigerians and "am" rather than "I'm"

davidif:
As much as i love Naija and its people there are some things that really irritate me about the country and its the way they communicate with English language. Nigerians think that in other Order for them to express themselves in the English language, they have to uses flowery and superfluous words even when they know that a simple one would do. I came across this hillarious piece from the BBC that described this frustration i have with Nigerians and boy did it feel good to finally run into someone who shared my frustration with the Nigerian people. Enjoy hahahaha.

davidif:


I tried reading Naija newspaper and got was it tiresome. First of all, it's as if thisthese guys were not taught how to summarize in journalism school. There Their reports are waaaaaay too long.
Secondly, the language is not even easy to follow and It looks like some of the writers are F. Scott Fitzgerald wannabe's they make it hard to read at times.
Lastly, there is waaaaaay too much fluff in the papers. If they will cut it down and tge unnecessary interviews with every politician who has ever served Nigeria since 1960 the average newspaper would probably be 10 pages at most.