Wazobia FM, and many other stations like it, has meant a new level of recognition for Pidgin and its many speakers.Īnd for once it is the well-heeled, well-educated community scrambling to catch up. In one of Lagos’ renowned mega clubs, a reveller might be heard to say “she dey kill me wit her mini-skirt o”, meaning they love the garment. The English word “kill is” reserved for a different context setting altogether. When used in a sentence, we have something like ‘the man don delete’, meaning ‘the man has died’.”Īnd to commit a massacre is to “do-badness-to-people”.
“A good example is when the word ‘died’ is replaced with ‘delete’. “I love to listen to the news in Pidgin English - mainly because it makes it less tragic,” added Nigerian blogger Uduak Ubak. Everyone with a minimal level of education understands us, and can be informed,” she said. “But the truth is, not everyone is educated in the country, and we have so many ethnic groups and so many languages.
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