Errors People Make While Speaking Or Writing English - Nigerian Journalist & Poet, Akeem Lasisi

Date: 01-09-2019 12:48 am (5 years ago) | Author: success Xenab
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Many Nigerians who speak or write English often display the disease of malapropism or simply mangle the language, without recourse to the rules.

Many Nigerians, for instance, will fail a simple test of spelling out what the abbreviation MC means. Master of ceremony? No. It means Master of Ceremonies.

Akeem Lasisi, a Nigerian journalist and poet has begun a language clinic on You Tube, Phenomenal English, in which he seeks to cure us Nigerians of linguistic ignorance. In series of video clips, he diagnoses the errors people make and spells out the appropriate phrases or words.

We bring you five idioms that are so often misused. We bet you may have committed one of the highlighted grammatical infractions at least once or twice, in your lifetime.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjIEhwrzMV8" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjIEhwrzMV8</a>

Posted: at 1-09-2019 12:48 AM (5 years ago) | Hero
- maxzy277 at 1-09-2019 03:44 AM (5 years ago)
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Good Cool
Posted: at 1-09-2019 03:44 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Baye77 at 1-09-2019 07:14 AM (5 years ago)
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 Cool Cool
Posted: at 1-09-2019 07:14 AM (5 years ago) | Hero
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- Slimchery at 1-09-2019 10:10 AM (5 years ago)
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Green snake under the green grass is correct because it's not visible but sname under the grass is visible and also correct
Posted: at 1-09-2019 10:10 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Slimchery at 1-09-2019 10:15 AM (5 years ago)
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When you use the word a green snake under the green grass simply means a bad friend that u cannot notice but the snake under the grass is the one you already know and can avoided the both statement is correct 
Posted: at 1-09-2019 10:15 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Slimchery at 1-09-2019 10:17 AM (5 years ago)
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When you use the word a green snake under the green grass simply means a bad friend that u cannot notice but the snake under the grass is the one you already know and can be avoided, the both statement is correct.
Posted: at 1-09-2019 10:17 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- fineboy77 at 1-09-2019 11:22 AM (5 years ago)
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I have my reservations
Posted: at 1-09-2019 11:22 AM (5 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- onyioben at 1-09-2019 01:28 PM (5 years ago)
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The time Nigerians understood that English language is someone's language and never a test of knowledge the better for them,,, what are you correcting Mr man,, something u learned from school,, 95% of Asian countries don't even know what English means but they are the masters of technology,,all this brainwashed of speaking good or bad English have to stop.
Posted: at 1-09-2019 01:28 PM (5 years ago) | Upcoming
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- olowoinlionsden at 1-09-2019 06:47 PM (5 years ago)
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Master of Ceremony should stand in a situation where in AN Occasion, a single person in charge of Affairs is being sorted. I still can't farthom a situation where a fellow can be a perpetual Master of Ceremonies.
Posted: at 1-09-2019 06:47 PM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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