tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2625710219374323467.post3078468471758476040..comments2024-03-23T10:47:39.662-04:00Comments on Notes From Atlanta: In Defense of “Flashing” and Other NigerianismsFarooq A. Kperogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13257188893371334162noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2625710219374323467.post-61313171928149910432010-10-04T21:10:02.242-04:002010-10-04T21:10:02.242-04:00Hello arouk,
As I once commented, your posts are ...Hello arouk,<br /><br />As I once commented, your posts are helpful and will continue to enlighten your readers. keep up the strength and zeal for more.<br /><br />Generally, language is made and remade to suit situations. Where speakers and non-speakers have issues to talk about but lack a specific word or phraze, communication demands for the necessity to invent one - to convey the sense or idea or concern, including news. Is that not why we say modern language instead of saying "pure language" of a population group?<br /><br />Could you write something about what is modern language in a global sense of a global community - taking note that immigrants insert new terms and ethnic idioms and metaphors into a dominant community language? Example, English language in an Athlantan city being used by a community of diverse immigrants.<br /><br />Thank you.<br />Patrick IroegbuIgbo Medicine and Culturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11910120041601892509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2625710219374323467.post-27858946582160442862010-01-06T23:51:15.871-05:002010-01-06T23:51:15.871-05:00Hello (for some reason I'm uncomfortable calli...Hello (for some reason I'm uncomfortable calling you by your handle),<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughtful and insightful comments on my post. You said it well. <br /><br />Although I like to think of myself as a grammar buff, I'm not a prescriptivist grammarian. I believe, like you, that language is not "some rarefied concept that should be 'preserved' in one concrete form."Farooq A. Kperogihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13257188893371334162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2625710219374323467.post-47633498952784816852010-01-06T23:25:05.033-05:002010-01-06T23:25:05.033-05:00The most exciting thing about language is how it c...The most exciting thing about language is how it changes and evolves. I laugh at people who want to preserve a "pure" English language or "pure" French, Spanish or any other language because it simply won't happen. People will invent words, misuse words until they have another meaning, or make words that once had positive meanings turn negative and vice versa. And that's how language evolves! Language is a tool for people to use to express themselves and communicate, not some rarefied concept that should be "preserved" in one concrete form. <br /><br />For example, a friend of mine thought there should be a word for transferring the laundry between the washing machine and the dryer, so she calls it "flip flopping" the laundry. That hasn't caught on outside her house, but hey, for them, it works perfectly.<br /><br />Thanks, Farooq. Your posts always make me think.Crackerhttp://www.arepasandgravy.comnoreply@blogger.com