Funke Akindele And The Bastardisation Of The English Language (Page 2)

writer what u said shouldn't have effect on who ever chose to speak either good or bad grammar,"am a typical naija v been in philladelphia U.S for the past 4yrs " Musicians , comedian here does same thing too. even the street language here is worst. despite all grammar in d street and on d tv , my 2 kids speaks good english. pls re address that issue funke, wizzy, olamide are hustling to earn daily. if u want to hurstle pls hestle and don't bullshit them.

Posted: at 3-11-2013 02:38 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie

Well said! I wish the government adopts the language that people speak most to teach all the science subjects like China and Philippine.

Posted: at 3-11-2013 05:19 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie

Dear poster, u feel u r grammatically grounded n u stil use d word "A UNCLAD". U r even worse dan d person u r writing abt. Pls, if u dnt knw wat 2 do, shut up n read oda ppl's meaningful posts.

Posted: at 3-11-2013 06:13 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie

Mr poster or writer. Do you watch american movies? Sometimes the black use street language which is not correct english. Funke speaks very good english. If you watch the soap 'I kneed to know", she was still very young there and she spoke very good english. Her acting is pure comedy and she has created _ _̅ _̅̅ _̅̅̅α niche for herself there, so leave her for us, we love her. And moreover the british have their own english, the americans have theirs, so we nigerians also have ours, it must not be the same.
Nigeria: this couple love themselves
British: this couple love one another

Posted: at 3-11-2013 09:26 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming

Mr poster or writer. Do you watch american movies? Sometimes the black use street language which is not correct english. Funke speaks very good english. If you watch the soap 'I kneed to know", she was still very young there and she spoke very good english. Her acting is pure comedy and she has created _ _̅ _̅̅ _̅̅̅α niche for herself there, so leave her for us, we love her. And moreover the british have their own english, the americans have theirs, so we nigerians also have ours, it must not be the same.
Nigeria: this couple love themselves
British: this couple love one another

Posted: at 3-11-2013 09:50 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming

 

Posted: at 3-11-2013 11:51 PM (10 years ago) | Hero

This poster is so daft! Pidgin (diluted english/ mother tongue) is the best way to send a message across to the four corners of Nigeria. Listen, not all british people speaks good english, same for the french people. It's people with slavery-mentality like you that will tell parents not to communicates with their children in their mother tongue so that they can speak good english. Whatever happens to multi-lingua? If you don't have any meaningful thing to post, why not try ameliorating your grammar first ("The entertainment industry is dulling our intelligence"), imagine!!! Abeg i no fot laugh

Posted: at 4-11-2013 12:42 AM (10 years ago) | Upcoming

Posted: at 4-11-2013 02:24 AM (10 years ago) | Upcoming

Mr English Police.

I cannot understand why we as black people are always so afraid, afraid of our own shadow, Pidkin/ dialect is a broken English spoken by many Africans on the continent and many other countries and Continents of this world, even some Caribbean Islands have their own. Ghana got theirs Nigeria got theirs and so does Gambia and so on, what is the big deal? some children speak & write very good English, and in their homes they speak their country's dialect with their parents. I think the onust is on the parents to deal with this as they deem fit, because this so called rule will certainly change from home to home, in some cases culture demands it.  Society should definitely stay out of it.  Asia has thousands of different dialects, spoken they use their dialect in their movies if necessary, and everyone enjoys it including your truly, sometimes with sub titles sometimes without.

As for Funkie Akindile, she is well versed in the English language, she is an Actress, and a comedian, an entertainer, she is very good at it, she plays her part very well. I totally believe that every part of the world should have their own dialect it can sometimes save a life. There was a time when we did beat the drum which spoke a language that no one understood but us, and it worked for the reason in which it was intended. Our children who really want to master the English language certainly will without force, so relax and take a chill pill.

Posted: at 4-11-2013 04:51 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie

Leave the girl alone she is fine, Actor, Entertainer, one of the best, she can act the part of anyone from Captain to cook.  Her English is very good. Those who want to speak real good English will, and those who do not wish to won't Funkie has nothing to do with it.

Posted: at 4-11-2013 05:01 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie