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Everybody focusing on tone/accent (OP didn't mention that) when the issue are the w o r d s being used.
Pull up a 1973 street interview and one from today and see the difference.
Very trueππ
One of my Senior Consultant friend was gisting me of how he had to go from Jos to Abuja with other of his colleagues just to plead for forgiveness.
He had disrespected a βgod of medicineβ years ago amidst NMA politics π
There is another level you forgot "the gods of medicine"
Each field has their own peculiar ones. You probably won't even hear about or see them, because they are so old and don't make any appearances.
I once met one, My Emeritus Professor prostrated to greet him.
It was that day I heard of him.
And one thing about them, if you find favour in their sight. You are like an anointed one. Your career growth will be exponential, you become their poster son and doors just open.
But if you offend them or you are in their bad books, your career will take a downturn, you'd just have countless woes & failures.
especially if you are in their field.
If they blacklist you, others will blacklist you in solidarity.
They don't forgive easily, if you will have a revived career. It will take the kneeling and plea of the 24 elders of medicine for you to move.
Don't let media deceive you, Medicine is a Cult.
A Hipprocratic cult with rules for its members.
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Unrelated to this poster, it's silly when people try to mock accents in a country that has over 500 dialects. It pisses me off & I often remind them that even in foreign countries they glorify so much, accents exist so why should Nigerians speak like the British or Americans?
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Deep sigh. Again, the people you watch from these old videos were not ordinary Nigerians but middle and upper class Nigerians who had good education home and ABROAD.
Iβm begging yβll to do a little bit of reading into your histories π
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we simply stopped speaking english with the british accent because our english teachers weren't british colonialists/missionary teachers neither did they attend tertiary institutions in the UK like it was in the colonial era.
bin this adulterated talk.
We did it simultaneously and I honestly think thatβs the best. I got to see conditions spoken about in class on the ward. It made better sense.
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Languages change and adapt, and there's really nothing wrong with that. Why should we preserve the English that was forced upon us?
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Okay, I'm not dunking on you and I'm just spitballing here but the sociolinguistic contexts are quite disparate. The word "adulteration" is load-bearing because it presupposes that there exists a pure form of oral English and βgiven its Germanic origins βthat is patently not true
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The way you say this things like you're so smart
We were speaking that way because of colonisation the fact we don't speak that way anymore is beautiful not alduterated
