Topic: We all know the rules - page 2. (Read 603 times)

English is our official language in the country since there are over 500 languages in the country it will be difficult to understand it all. Pidgin English is just like an unofficial (official) language spoken in the country so it wouldn’t be right to make it the only language spoken here because it is not everyone that understands it properly, it was just added to be the language spoken here to differentiate the local board from the main board because we all have our different native languages and pidgin is the only language we all can understand aside English.

I don’t see how having English and pidgin as our local board language is a problem the most important thing is to understand the message passed.

English and Pidgin are spoken everywhere in Nigeria which makes us to have the freedom to use any of the two languages to post on this forum. You can even have part of your post in English and the other part in Pidgin. You can have all in English or have all in Pidgin.

There are some discussion you just have to leave for the old members. You registered in January of this year and you do not know the history because the Nigeria local board history is older than that.

Did you read this which is enough for you not to post what you posted:


Obari knows the rules and we have discussed about this before times without number. What should posting against the rules called? Is it not spamming. Also what is posting what you have posted before called and which you are not winning but repeating the post? Is it not called spamming. He is also trolling.

 Most times, I get confused over choosing between posting in Pidgin or English in this local board, but then I chose anyone I feel is very suitable or which one I'll freestyle very well in certain posts but then that doesn't mean that anyone is wrong in using either, the only thing I think is wrong as stated by our able moderator is using any of our indigenous language.

 Well, from what I've discovered everyone is right to Air their opinions like Obari just did in the deleted thread and also anyone could disagree with your opinion and try to correct you like Charles-Tim did, but then correcting someone by calling them a spammer is unfair. like Obari said no one is above mistakes in this forum and I believe he's taken his corrections.

 Well you guys are gentlemen and older people in this forum, I see you both as people I could learn from based on your experience here, and If there's any issues among you both, you could settle it maturely as gentle men that you both are, that's my opinion.

Imo, language is just a medium for communication that ensures that the people participating in a discourse can understand each other. Like Charles-Tim and Igebotz have confirmed, it doesn't matter if the post is written in English or in pidgin. I personally write in both and choose to use whichever one I'm comfortable with at any given time. I go implore people that still see this as an issue to overlook it because in life, as much as we all want something, we can't always get what we want. If dealing in a public setting, not everyone will follow same pattern.

If there is ever a time that I am happy that we got a moderator then I think it is this time. Your swift intervention was a good one.

Now to everyone if will be unique that the Board uses a language that others in the general Board do not understand but it would be a great mess if also us here in the Board do not get a thing that is discussed here. Pidgin has you have pointed it out Dey very robust he mean say if you no Dey use to am you fit either mistake the spellings or you fit Dey talk the wrong thing entirely which mean say the whole post no get head. So wouldn’t it be better that such post is done in English? I think we all agree it will.

So not that I am supporting a side here we put out a straight order that only pidgin is allowed, we might be witnessing some spams by people who do not speak it well or write it well but wishes to air their opinions too. Or better still be missing out on some valuable contributions from those members as they will definitely stay away. So the idea to embrace both is good. If you understand pidgin properly please make use of it here to make it board unique if otherwise use the English language

But you no say this place we dey accept both pidgin and main English language and we have be using it since, if many people dey use English pass pidgin English na wetin you go just address generally so that our brothers wey dey come join us go take such correction because as you dey talk am I believe so people go they think you dey observe only one person why na wetin most people dey use, you can not differentiate that much between English and pidgin English because e get person we go talk pidgin you go think say the person dey talk English, so na so e dey, make no talk like this ooh so people no go dey carry akpor for us

Well that's true and before now I was also skeptical on this issue but I later found out that it's really doesn't matter that much as we ourselves are not bound to one particular language and since everyone understands and go with the pidgin and English setting, I think there is no extra reasons to deliberate on the issue and yes there are so many local that also do communicate with English as well and they are all okay so why must ours be an issue.

I honestly thought we had moved on from the language barrier issue for a long time; I'm shocked some members still find it uncomfortable, but it doesn't matter and doesn't affect anything. When we first started pushing for a local board, some members stated we wouldn't get one because we wrote in English and so on, but we did get one with the stated English and Pidgin rules, so I understand why it's a problem now.

India The local board speaks English, and just a few members speaks Hindi, but that hasn't stopped them from attaining what they have now. Theymos doesn't care about any of that; just give him the number.

I agree with Charles and Igeh and every other person who has opined that English and Pidgin are the accepted languages here. I don't see any issue with it. I remember exactly when the language issues was debated and agreed upon. It shouldn't be any issues.

Well I am happy that Charles brought this up. It isn't even for the person mentioned, it is going to serve as a reference for the uninformed in the present and future who may want to bring it up again.

This shouldn't be a thing we discuss with an aggressively manner. When I saw this thread I took my time to check other local boards and I found that most of their discussion were English but many of the is are written with their local language both replies and threads. So this is not a thing we should fight with. We are Nigerians and we don't speak any specific languages if not pidgin language and simple English, so we should also use the both languages, the important thing is always write with the one you are comfortable with so that you don't end up making mistakes. However it's not everyone that can perfectly write with pidgin language and no body have to blame them because we do not learn them in college.

like I said earlier, it's best to moderate our activities and not take things that shouldn't generate into a full blown argument seriously. I'm still new in the forum and might not have understood if there is anything personal that's going on here or that has happened prior to my actively on the board that has made this matter looked more serious than a simple correction that should not have been a big problem but like it happened here, I had created a thread on this board and it was deleted by the moderator before I even knew about it, I had to recreate it because I felt my network had issues while I was creating the thread but from the first reply I saw, I noticed that it  had been deleted the first time I created it.

I didn't take it personal because I knew that no one is above mistake and that I still have a lot to learn from this space. It's not possible to have the numbers of users that are on this space who will work as a united family and that's not what I'm suggesting when I made the statement that we are a family. I'm just suggesting that in the midst of our differences and flaws, we should find a neutral ground to co exist so if we're requesting something from the overall moderators, we wouldn't go out there as a divided family.

Let peace reign👍

Our capable moderator, I hail your decision to delete dat @Obari, thread, based on wetin I hear about am for dis thread. Evendo say I no get di opportunity to read am, e don become bygone unto say you don do di right thing. Wen I join dis local board as a newbie, I reason am say we suppose to de make posts with pidgin English alone, so dat wen  foreigners wey de visit di board, dem go de see say we get unique Nigerian styled English, I even start topic about di matter. But as @Charles-Tim, talk am, me sef I don observe say di matter of pidgin versus English don de debated for different threads inside dis our board and di resolutions na say make English and pidgin de acceptable for dis board and I don accept am like dat.

Me sef I observe say some of our pidgin English for dis board de hard to understand, so if any of our people wan type for pidgin English, make dem try to de use words and spellings wey others go fit to de comprehend easily.

Nigeria is a nation with diverses of cultures so also their traditions and languages far differs. In my LGA alone, we've more then 30 different languages then we can about the entire state before looking at it in a nation wide. That's to say we do not have a particular language but are unified with the English language which adulterated and reformed by us  in the way that lower classes of citizens in terms of educational levels can as well for in to flow with others. That's how this pigin language became convenient for the nation as a whole but yet English remains the general language.
Before anyone should've joined this forum, the member should have the aid of communicating with the rightful English even if it's not fluently.
However, even in our governances, there's a freedom of speech so, both English and the pidgin language in our local board should be respected. I actually don't know about the repetition of the said Obari being fond of this as Charles -Tim may have expressed but the factor that if an Op should delete other members comments on his thread just because it doesn't follow his order or pidgin language, then it feels self centered and concentrating to get the best out of the context of the thread unless the thread doesn't have a quality rate for discussion but probably an off topic best suitable by the Ops expectations.

Are we United?
I think you should take your time to answer this question and you shouldn’t necessarily answer it and one thing I Dey assure you be say, the day dem go hold you then you go understand say we no Dey in United at all.
I’m less than two years in the forum and as such I never big pass mistake chief because even legendary Dey lose guard some times and personally I don learn say maturity no be by rank.

Baba I’m well chilled and thanks for all your response but I think generally in life, e get some things wey no fit Dey over emphasized and typical example na the case and talks about addiction in gambling and regardless of how much people talk about addiction, I don’t think it can be actually over emphasized and relating that with pidgin and the local board, the major reason why I created my topic was hijacked by Charles-Tim and him coke Dey make am seem I’m doing something wrong and he was typically the major reason I been Dey delete replies not written in pidgin because e been Dey d thread.

Normally I no Dey fight anybody because I no get that time as I personally get other important things doing especially getting better rather than acting like God at the expense of your fellow countryman.

Chill out Obari, this issue doesn't have to go too far, make all of us just understand one another and embrace the two accepted languages in this local board. Look at it this way, if so many users adopt the policy of deleting posts written in English in their threads, i can only imagine how unwelcoming the local board would be to a lot of users, let us all move on from this bro.

I was even surprised to see that before the thread was deleted, all the comment that weren't in line with the OPs point of view had been deleted. For me, that's not the right way to do things most expecially when it's coming from one of the old men in the local board that's supposed to live an exemplary lifestyle for newbies and those that aren't old in the forum to learn from.

I understand that the reason for reiterating the point on posting more with pidgin could be that because we've hard lots of new faces that has joined the forum recently and might not have seen that a topic like that has been created, he might want to see people's view on the subject matter but when you're creating a thread first of all with an angry tune and then deleting people's opinions, it means you're not considering how the person you deleted his reply will feel. Thanks to the sheriff that intervened and I guess it's just best we learn how to moderate our activities knowing fully well that we have lots of new persons that are joining the local board and it wouldn't be good for them to start with a wrong orientation that we aren't united as a family.

You’re very funny
Very funny man
I hope you grow real well
And let me correct you that I’m not spamming, I will never spam and I see that your post is coming from a point of a bitter soul and I pray you heal from your bitterness man

You should be a perfect definition of a person who doesn’t see good in what others do.
There is a life after forum man and you shouldn’t be in the position of not wanting another grow and learn especially your fellow countryman.

@charlse-Tim, I’ve long seen and respected you as one of the elders of the local board but frankly I must tell you that you’re no God and you should learn how to be in others shoes especially knowing how the country has been already harsh on its citizens and you shouldn’t try to make it harder.
You might be doing the Right thing but the truth is that, you should learn to know that, no one is above mistake and no one is a saint not even you

I’m sure you already know that we all got stains on our whites as humans because there isn’t perfection in humans.

Peace and respect.

Thank you moderator and sherif for your great works and I’m sure you’ll do better.

Creating self-moderated threads is fine, but it becomes a problem when you start removing other people's comments only because they are written in English; this sends a wrong message and causes discrimination among us. If someone decides to remove Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, and other local languages from their thread, I have no problem with that; however, removing the English language, which has been adopted by the community, is problematic.

There are Nigerians who understand both languages but only write in English, which is why we adopted both languages in the first place. Most of the Pidgin language I've read on this local board is horribly written and difficult to read. Sorry to say.

I deleted that thread for breaking the language rules and for discrimination.

I don't know why some users keep making this thing an issue, something that has been discussed time and again, it is fine to use both English and Pidgin, and you fit even mix the two of dem for one post, as i dey do now. I don't get what the problem is, live and let live; if you do not want to use English, then don't do so, but do not dictate to others what they should do.

If we have any need to review some of our rules, we go do am, but for now, me i no see any reason to do it. If you make your thread self moderated and you are deleting posts only because they are written in English, then e no make sense at all and you'll basically make users start avoiding your threads.

The action has been taken place i noticed the topic has been deleted or restricted, you know it's very hard for everyone to know post that has been overly discussed here except they used the search option to find post before creating another one.