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Why you dey flash me ?
Everybody understands dat in Nigeria.
It's a good English here then.
Nor be person form d rest English wey una say e correct?

So Ukamaka Wey dey form oyinbo dey speak nonsense? I'm waiting for the day she go yarn dust again. I go use style tell am say make she find pepperish for dictionary.

I know of all these rules but i use them depending on whom i am speaking to

na still borrowed language e be 4 here.

Kanu use tha word "oppurtuned" in peak milk advert and he got his cash after words so what the point.

ngoremeka:

Many people speak English as their first language. It is one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world.
Nigerians are very good at a number of things and one of them is inventing their own version of English which has become popular overtime.
Some of the words and phrases we use often cannot be found in the dictionary. Some are words you picked up from others and they have become quite a norm.
It is not only the uneducated folks that are guilty of using these wrong words as the very educated Nigerians also use the English language inappropriately.
Below are words Nigerians use that don’t exist in the English dictionary.
1. Go-slow: When Nigerians say go-slow, they mean congested traffic, which is wrong. The meaning of go-slow in the English dictionary is, a form of industrial action in which work or progress is deliberately delayed or slowed down.
2. Disvirgin: This word is used on a daily basis by many Nigerians when they intend to say a woman has lost her virginity. There is no word like disvirgin. The correct word to use is deflower. Disvirgin simply does not exist.
3. Trafficate: Nigerians use the word to describe a situation where a driver indicates to other drivers that he/she wants to take a turn. It is used so often, that it has started to sound like proper English.
4. Flashing: Every Nigerian knows “flashing” to mean when someone calls your mobile phone and cuts off before you answer. The word ‘flash’ is so common among Nigerians and its used at least once daily by many. Flash has different meanings but none has anything to do with a phone call. The word doesn’t exist in that sense in English.
5. Installmentally: Don’t be tempted to use the word ‘installmentally’. Though it sounds correct, it isn’t. There is no such word in the English dictionary as it exists only in the Nigerian edition of English language. The correct thing to say is ‘in installments’.
6. Opportuned: What exists in English dictionaries is ‘opportune,’ without ‘d’ at the end. Opportune means ‘timely’ or ‘well-time, especially convenient or appropriate for a particular action or event. Opportuned is only common in Nigerian English.
7. Cunny: This is a word which Nigerians use to describe someone that is being deceitful or crafty. The right word is cunning not cunny.
8. Next tomorrow: Most Nigerians generally use “next tomorrow” but there is not such word as next tomorrow. Instead you should say, “a day after tomorrow."
9. Packer: Nigerians probably got the word from pack. The right word is dustpan. Since dustpan packs dirt, Nigerians like to call it packer.
10. Pepperish: It is common to hear Nigerians describe a meal that has too much pepper in it as pepperish. The proper word should be ‘peppery’. No native English speaker uses the word pepperish” to describe the burning sensation we feel from eating pepper.
Which of these words are you guilty of?
Not too late to learn something new,I learnt too.. you can add other mistakes below

Atleast you could have given credit to the original writer.

https://www.nairaland.com/3250594/10-common-words-nigerians-use

ExAngel007

GloriaNinja:
AND ALSO THE WORD "EPP"

u no well walai

Nice 1 op but I still maintain we ain't English ppl it's just an additional language to ease communication with other 4rm different places so far the next person understand where we are heading no p....

The ones I'm guilty of are Trafficate and Packer



Meanwhile, what about "Turner garri". What's the real name?

Nice one OP... but for the words that do not exist, tell us the right word which is correct, so that we can substitute the wrong ones.
For example you gave the correct word for DISVIRGIN as DEFLOWER. But no correct word for GO-SLOW etc.

Doesn't matter,language is arbitrary, as long as the person you communicate with understand you, you are good to go.THe only problem your may face is when you commune with foreigners .

isholafisayo:


Nice one....., but i feel it will be better if you can tell us the right words to use in each context since you are educating us...
for example the right word to use for no 10(pepperish) is peppery e.g The food is peppery

Did you read the opening post at all?

borednhorny:
I was opportuned to meet the lady selling packers and other plastic items beside the canteen where the soup is always pepperish. She told me i would be the one to disvirgin her

if i left my cunny ways behind. On my way to her place there was go slow and her incessant flashing on my phone made me hit the van in front of me when the driver did not trafficate before turning. I promised to pay for the repair of the van installmentally and i shifted my appointment with the lady to next tomorrow.

.....mehn you just a clown...lol

One day people will understand that English is a language and not a MEASURE OF INTELLIGENCE.

lonelydora:
The ones I'm guilty of are Trafficate and Packer



Meanwhile, what about "Turner garri". What's the real name?

Spatula

etibaba:
Spatula

Yes Yes Yes Yes. Thanks.

Luizkid:

it's obvious u're Bored

You are obviously a dream killer....

Pikkin means a child.

Well said.. we can't throw these beautiful words away, it has meaning, therefore I urge the Oxford dictionary to review and put it/add into English words after all most of her words are borrowed from other languages

First sensible post on Nairaland .

OP is wrong.

'Packer' is a dictionary word that means 'a Machine or someone that packs items'.

Don't teach me nonsense

Luizkid:

it's obvious u're Bored

Learn to appreciate pple, it'll also mk u appreciated one day. Wht can u do?

Um, disvirgin is actually an English word and is found in the dictionary

Other countries over time include these unusual words that are now considered mainstream in their dictionary eg bootylicious. But here we are trying to correct ourselves albeit subtly. I have since realized that as long as the majority understands the words that come out of my mouth and it is spoken by many then I don't care who is offended by it. If it hurts that much, then pls relocate to a different country

The language na our own? Shebi wen we express am them dey understand. So live am like that.

borednhorny:
I was opportuned to meet the lady selling packers and other plastic items beside the canteen where the soup is always pepperish. She told me i would be the one to disvirgin her if i left my cunny ways behind. On my way to her place there was go slow and her incessant flashing on my phone made me hit the van in front of me when the driver did not trafficate before turning. I promised to pay for the repair of the van installmentally and i shifted my appointment with the lady to next tomorrow.

I like the way you have used the words.

I want to believe you know what native English means. There is nothing wrong in Nigerians coining English words for itself.

Lobatan.........in dat case, I move the motion for some of these words be included into the dictionary o, especially dat "trafficate". Even English professors in Nigeria makes use of that word.

Luizkid:

it's obvious u're Bored

.Hmm na true say u be comfarm naijaa guy.abeg tank u

Those are native English, which were coined by Nigerians. Every country has it own style of English different from the standard English language. So I see nothing wrong in using it amongst ourselves in as much those spoken to understand it.