gozzlin:


I have exhausted all I could muster to tutor you in the previous post but it's obvious you're completely incorrigible and prefer to stick with your Nigerian English. Do carry on. Gracias.

joyfullyjoyous:
A woman asked if I would marry her husband. She also asked the husband if he would marry me. I felt embarrassed. The woman died few months later and the husband called to remind me of what the woman said. He wanted us to try having lunch,dinner together to make us get to know eachothrr better. She's from Portharcourt while he's from IMO n me from Ila Orangun,Osun state.

gozzlin:




Chai! So damn hilarious!

I bet your temperament is melancholy with a tinge of either sanguine or choleric.

Ishilove:

I don't know what my temperament is. I sha know I prepared all week for the ministration, only for the yeye typo to discombobulate me.

marvelous000:

don't you think I'm vast enough to know everything about communication? or you think i need the opinion of other people to inform me on that?
when I write; it's for me and others who are acclimatize with my writing genre or have predilection for it. any other lexical dilettante is very welcome to ignore and pass accordingly, I mean as many as they come, cos I've got no patience for quibbling over my writing choice.




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Gartol:
I was in the toilet when my freind sent me a short s*x video to me. I played the video it didn't bring out any sound in my mind I was like maybe he no get sound so I didn't bother I continue watching for 10 minutes.

Then I remembered my phone was connected to the Bluetooth in the palour. All my family members were there including my pastor dada and some brothers and sisters in the Lord who look up to me. I no comot toilet for a week infact I still dey shit till now

Ishilove:

Even shame dey catch me as I dey read

midnighter:


It can be either "versed" or "vast", either one fits.

Dont know why everybody wants to finish the guy....the stuff he writes is cool...

Ijawwomaninoyo:
I was greeting a 76 year old man cos I heard he was hospitalized for some health issues.
Not knowing his wife was around the corner(we don't know each other). She started shouting at the top of her voice on why I wanted to snatch her husband.
She embarrassed me seriously, I was too shocked to utter a word.

amaniro:



Shes try to say,when an information is passed and one party didn't get the information, there was no communication thereof, Communication between two party involves understanding of both parties. Simple and short Your Grammar was too much and irrelevant. Especially when you had an option to use Simpler terms, but you chose to show us you're an English scholar. Bravo Amigo.

joyfullyjoyous:
A woman asked if I would marry her husband. She also asked the husband if he would marry me. I felt embarrassed. The woman died few months later and the husband called to remind me of what the woman said. He wanted us to try having lunch,dinner together to make us get to know eachothrr better. She's from Portharcourt while he's from IMO n me from Ila Orangun,Osun state.

gozzlin:


It's 'versed' not 'vast' Mr. Knowitall alias Mr Showboater.

An adage in Igbo language says: If you know this one, do you know the other one? If you think you've deciphered the bird's illness, have you been able to decipher its ability to fly?

Hyerin:


I actually understood what you wrote, I don't know why these people are making such a big deal about it.

AwkaetitiBabe:
Our very own vocab lecturer, I dey feel your writing choice.

gozzlin:


It's 'versed' not 'vast' Mr. Knowitall alias Mr Showboater.

An adage in Igbo language says: If you know this one, do you know the other one? If you think you've deciphered the bird's illness, have you been able to decipher its ability to fly?

amaniro:


He reminds me of those days that it was a battle of who could speak the bigger English. Smh childish act

amaniro:

Yinmu

Raheemzee:

Funny you! Thanks for your post, you've just taught something today. Since I was born I've been thinking the injury "whitlow" was actually pronounced and spelled "wiclo" .thanks for educating me and a large number of Nigerians who did not know the right pronunciation and spelling.

DanDeeBoss:
How you want take snatch 76 Year old man?? is the wife mad ni??

Ishilove:

You for give her back fire for fire. That's what I would have done. By the time I finish with her na she shame go catch. What arrant nonsense.

marvelous000:


Trust me, my dear.

we will write plethora of books if we should do speculate on that. a lot of people like to destroy what they don't understand or it's not within the confine of their mediocrity. it's part of the human psychic. it's akin to a swarm of termites waiting for the wind of their collective sneer to break me like a tree, so they can feed on me and pull me back to the common jungle.


XhosaNostra whom i was having a tete-a-tete with, had no problem, it is people who it isn't their business. anyway, I'm impervious to them, and usually ignore them, but felt oblige to respond when Ishilove whom i like and should've known me better right from my nascent on this fora, seem to join the bandwagon.





you know, I usually ignore this kind of your petty post, but i feel called upon to educate and slough your ignorance, so you don't go brandishing it with reckless chutzpah next time

there are more than one way to express the same thing, just like 'vast' is the most apt word to use in the context i used it.
I know endeavoring you to read up on figurative expression will be tantamount to the worsest carnage of human history, if measured in material quantity, so I'll ask you to check number 4 definition of the pics below, or check this link>>> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vast


Now, fvck off to a well deserved oblivion.

Pascopele:
Konji was killing me slowly after 4 months of staying away and I finally met bae only for bae to start making me beg for staying away for that long and finally, the gate of heaven was open but that stupid gbola of mine just drop dead like 404 Peugeot gear lever.

Oh gosh.. You need to see the expression on bae's face trying to raise the dead

Share yours

midnighter:


As you can see from my last post, I definitely know the difference between "versed" and "vast" and have never pronounced them the same. I took this this up not for the sake of argument, but because I saw something wrong in what you said.

You are taking the statement too literally. The word "vast" can definitely be used in a figurative sense, more akin to the definition you provided in number (4). His meaning can be implied; I am [intellectually] vast enough to know everything about communication. the word "everything" is our context, showing that he could use either "versed" or "vast".

I maintain that there is nothing wrong with what he said. In fact your own construction was a lot clumsier...hardly anybody refers to themselves as being "versed" in something, even if it is technically grammatically correct. A more appropriate wording would be "well-versed".

Language is not just about grammar...there is a balancing of grammar, meaning, intrinsic aesthetic and inference...

Human beings are in fact, extremely vast. In the metaphorical sense of the word...

Isabellah:
The day I fall down in front my neighbors outside my house is as if the ground should open for me to enter cause I hardly greet any of them

Blackivy29:
i cant... Nothing is more embarrassing. The comments here are cracking me up. I've experienced some before. Like falling down in public, in front of my classmates i usually snub...

gozzlin:


Why do you choose to engage in an unnecessary argument just for the sake of argument? For your information 'vast' can never be used in that sense you are alluding to. Because Nigerians use it in their written English does not make it correct. Nigerians are known to commit the most atrocious blunders in their written and spoken English.

It's totally inexcusable. If you read literary works of native English speakers and listen to them speak, you'll never see where they committed the unpardonable of saying 'I'm vast'. That's a wrong English expression.

Here is Dictionary.com's definition of 'vast'.

adjective, vast·er, vast·est.


1. Of very great area or extent; immense: eg. vast reaches of outer space.

2. Of very great size or proportions; huge; enormous: eg. Vast piles of rubble left in the wake of the war.

3. very great in number, quantity, amount, etc.: Eg. Vast sums of money.

4. very great in degree, intensity, etc.:
Eg. An artisan of vast skill.


Now here's the same dictionary's definition of 'versed' as an adjective.

Thoroughly knowledgeable (about), acquainted (with), or skilled (in) something.


I repeat, you cannot be vast. A human being cannot be vast. But you can be versed in something. You can also have vast knowledge or skill but can never be vast.

Nigerians make this mistake mostly because most of them do not pronounce English words correctly. They give the same pronunciation to the two words 'vast' and 'versed' and it's really appalling. You do not use English words as you use the words in your language. It has rules that must be strictly adhered to especially in formal settings. If you're in doubt you can always consult your English dictionary.

I went to great lengths to type out this elaborate explanation so that you should desist from such atrocious errors are in your daily use of English, it leaves a very poor impression.

gozzlin:


No Mr. Knowitall, aka Mr. Showboater, you are the one to _fuck off to oblivion with your infantile grasp of the English language. Yes, it's obvious that you are not yet proficient in the use of English. Employing verbosity and archaic words in your write-up can barely mask it.

There are numerous errors in those posts of yours, but I picked out that one because most Nigerians commit that blunder and it's annoying. Instead of taking corrections from someone who knows more than you in that regard, you've elected to further exhibit your clueless and crass stupidity. Quite nauseating!

You have a long way to go in learning the use of English. The entry you made reference to clearly stated what 'vast' means. It said a great degree or intensity of something. It never suggested you can use it in the sense you used it - 'I am vast'. Referring to yourself as vast instead of whatever knowledge you assume you have. It is a totally wrong English expression. You can have vast knowledge or skill but can never be seen as vast. You can only say 'I am versed'.

Get that into your thick skull full of nothing but conceit, Mr. Knowitall aka Mr. Showboater.

marvelous000:

I didn't know that you elaborately educated him. I wouldn't have gone the bother of affording him a response.
you should know that some people are incorrigibly obdurate in ignorance, and it is inutile trying to inculcate sense into them.

ignore him as he jolly well should, else you will be embroiled in futile back and forth

MiVida:
And who told you that nonsense in between your girlfriend's legs is the gate of heaven?


Are you okay

midnighter:


Lol he's the one who cut the conversation off. Cant handle logic I guess.

Anyway he didnt insult me so I didnt mind continuing the debate even though he obviously didnt read what I wrote or take any of my points into consideration