Sirambassador:

Buhari why

adidison:


Haba mallam! How pidgin language no common for North? Relax baba! Even people from Northern Cameroon, Niger and Chad speak pidgin well. The whole Nigeria just like the warri pidgin english that's why he was a celeb student.

Northern pidgin just still has the northern accent

Fuckingmallam45:

Nigeria 1970

LordOfNaira:


Forget it, pidgin English is what it is, substandard English. No one has an official language that is a corruption of another language.

internationalman:
What are you saying OP?

Pidgin English doesn't have correction that's why we love it. No fear of embarrassment.

It only has two rules...

1 If you claim to speak it better, you are only diverting to pure English.

2 The more badly you speak it the better you are at speaking it.

Nowenuse:


Who told you this wrong fact?

Don't you know that Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French etc were all pidgin language forms of Latin language? They have become world languages today.

In Haiti, Haitian creole (a pidgin form of french) is an official language. There are many countries with creole dialects as official languages. Don't be ignorant.

EsotericMonk:
Its called PIDGIN because it has no rules. Nigerians just like to complicate simple things and sound smarter than they really are.
Even the normal engish language, we would rather use a higher sounding symonym compared to the English man who would use simpler words. Very soon schools and tutorial centres would spring up for learning pidgin.

internationalman:

listen that's not pidgin English..
that's Jennifer trying to speak pure English..

Xda59:


I beg even if e no get rules, e get the way wey some illeterate people go speak am wey no dey make sense.

ortakida:



Let me bust your bubble. Read this:

"If I catch my husband dey sexing with another woman, what I do him?"

That's a combination of Jenifa's English ("What I do him" and pure wrong use of Pidgin English ("sexing".

If you SERIOUSLY dare speak this one outside people go laff you die.

Yyeske:
You are right to an extent but but remember that a creole is different from pidgin.
Pidgin is a language developed by speakers of two or more different languages for simple communication while retaining their original native languages as we have in Nigeria and that is why we still have native speakers of Igbo, Yoruba, Efik, Urhobo, Hausa etc speaking pidgin but they still retain the ability to communicate in their various native languages. This is common among the first and second generation of the pidgin speakers.
A creole develops when the pidgin is now so mixed up and nobody can speak any native language except the pidgin, imagine Nigerians speaking only pidgin at home with their parents at home, place of work, their grandparents and not understanding a word of Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Hausa, Urhobo etc but we only speak pidgin as our local language. This is what is obtainable in Haiti, Sierra Leone and some other countries.
Spanish, French, Italian you sited were first pidgins of Latin before becoming creoles and finally defined different languages as we know today.

Nowenuse:


I very well understand you. The simple reason why most Caribbean countries developed creole languages was simply because they lost their own languages during the slave trade.
Have you heard of TOK PISIN? It is a pidgin language which became a creole not too long ago as it displaced native languages, spoken in New Papua Guinea. It has official status over there, even while it was not yet a creole.

With the way Pidgin is going in the South-south especially, it may displace native languages very soon if frantic efforts are not taken as most of the younger generation are like first language pidgin speakers.

ortakida:



Let me bust your bubble. Read this:

"If I catch my husband dey sexing with another woman, what I do him?"

That's a combination of Jenifa's English ("What I do him" and pure wrong use of Pidgin English ("sexing".

If you SERIOUSLY dare speak this one outside people go laff you die.

LordOfNaira:


Forget it, pidgin English is what it is, substandard English. No one has an official language that is a corruption of another language.

Yyeske:
You are right to an extent but but remember that a creole is different from pidgin.
Pidgin is a language developed by speakers of two or more different languages for simple communication while retaining their original native languages as we have in Nigeria and that is why we still have native speakers of Igbo, Yoruba, Efik, Urhobo, Hausa etc speaking pidgin but they still retain the ability to communicate in their various native languages. This is common among the first and second generation of the pidgin speakers.
A creole develops when the pidgin is now so mixed up and nobody can speak any native language except the pidgin, imagine Nigerians speaking only pidgin at home with their parents at home, place of work, their grandparents and not understanding a word of Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Hausa, Urhobo etc but we only speak pidgin as our local language. This is what is obtainable in Haiti, Sierra Leone and some other countries.
Spanish, French, Italian you sited were first pidgins of Latin before becoming creoles and finally defined different languages as we know today.

kingxsamz:
nice post.