I was bored. I got tagged for some reason. My ADHD and general personality has made me random as f*ck. Miles McKenna's face was more than necessary as the cover. Enjoy I guess.
Y'all should know this by now, but in case it somehow slipped your mind,
AMMA NIGERIAN
I live in Nigeria.
Was born in Nigeria.
But still acts like an emo-ass white American bitch.
Go figure.
Yeah, I'm from this place
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This place
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This place
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Yeah...
Hehe 😅
What a fascinating culture!
But one side effect that confuses people that I talk to a lot is...
LANGUAGE
Now hold your horses
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Not literally you dumbass.
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I'm not saying that Nigeria has her own general language that everyone speaks
(Cause if we did it would be English)
We actually have three main languages amongst the people: Yoruba Igbo and Hausa
IGBO SQUAD 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
WHERE MY CHI-BABES AT???
Anywho...
It's just that most people all understand a particular group of words or slang that we tend to slip into English and treat as such
It's just normal
Well unless you're not from here
Which in case you're like 'wut'
So to help produce understanding
And assure people I actually do speak correct English
I am giving whoever's reading this a CRASH COURSE on Nigerian slang
Or 'Pidgin English' as some call it.
Damn Nigerians are weird 😂
First up is one I use a lot which is:
ABBA
This basically means 'fake' and can be used to describe something useless or dumb.
E.g: 'This school is so abba.'
I've said that so much in the past few months.
Like you don't even grab.
Next up is 'jesu christi', which is basically Yoruba for Jesus Christ.
It's always appropriate whenever a situation is really freaking funny or weird, and saying the Lord's name in vain just isn't appropriate enough.
I'm getting tired of typing so I'll just be brief here: Ode - idiot/dumbass
Sha - just
Pschew - A written hiss which basically means 'I'm done with your bullshit'
Aya - Cute or 'What am I supposed to do?'
Oyinbo - A name I was called a lot as a kid because of my accent that apparently means 'white man'
😐
DAMN SON
Skin/Skeen - I don't care, commonly answered with 'flesh' that results in a game where you have to name body components as they get smaller and smaller
Fun side note: I once did this with ravenwood12345 and he said 'Electron.' and was like 'What are you going to say? What are you actually going to say?'('Cause there's nothing smaller than an electron) and in my head I was just like 'Your...'
