Nigerians say burgeoning.
We say Discombobulated, which is the state seeing tweets about this have left me. I am discombobulated because it means so many educated Nigerians are being denied jobs, grades & other things in life by illiterate gatekeepers, just because we love words.
We say Discombobulated, which is the state seeing tweets about this have left me. I am discombobulated because it means so many educated Nigerians are being denied jobs, grades & other things in life by illiterate gatekeepers, just because we love words.
Nigerians love flowery, musical, emotive, dramatic words because our local languages are flowery, musical and dramatic.
As an Ibadan girl, the drama of language is the point. My brain wants to say "batuabatua" in my language, and the only English word close enough is "Enormous"
As an Ibadan girl, the drama of language is the point. My brain wants to say "batuabatua" in my language, and the only English word close enough is "Enormous"
And enormous doesn't cut really. I must say Gargantuan. It is not enough for me to say Confusion. That is boring. I must say Conundrum. Because I am a Yoruba girl. And my language is many things, boring is not one of them. And this applies to most Nigerian languages.
It is distressing (wild, to our American friends) that if I were in college in America in 2024, I would possibly be accused of cheating, or denied an interview for a job I qualified for, or denied funding, because my essay or cover letter was not written in grade 3 English.
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