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Lagos, Nigeria Katılım Eylül 2010
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Heidi Matthews
Heidi Matthews@Heidi__Matthews·
Flotilla participants are arriving at Istanbul airport. This is what Israel military and prison personnel did to them.
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So first every religion wants to convert everyone else (because they think they're the best). Then when you're proven wrong you just say that's because they think they're better than everyone else, which contradicts what you just said. And "the Jews" have supposedly got all the power, but they choose not to "subject us to worse treatment than the Atlantic slave trades". Or do they not have all the power? Which one is it?
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𝓔𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓪
𝓔𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓪@elioralux·
A woman on my flight yesterday switched seats with her husband because their toddler wouldn’t stop crying. The second she sat down alone, she closed her eyes for maybe 30 seconds. Just resting. Not sleeping. When the husband walked past with the kid later, he laughed and said loudly, “Must be nice to finally get a break from doing nothing.” A few people chuckled. She laughed too. But something about it felt off because for the entire flight she had been: holding the baby, packing snacks, cleaning spills, walking him down the aisle, missing her own meal trying to calm him down… while the husband watched a movie with headphones on. And honestly I think that’s why so many women are exhausted. Not because they’re doing everything alone. But because they’re doing everything while someone else calls it “nothing.”
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Mirror Mirror@deleayuba·
@elonmusk Why have you never said anything about Ben gvir acting like a devil in his hideout
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Mirror Mirror@deleayuba·
@MaiandGCP The original poster has clearly not been around Nigeria by road. It is a big place. Before the advent of modern transportation people lived their lives with a 5 mile radius. Hills, rivers, gorges or thick forests were enough cut a community off and a totally new language spawns.
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This is actually a brilliant observation that deserves a proper answer. You are not wrong about what you are seeing. But what you are describing is exactly how languages disappear without anyone noticing. Adamawa alone has over 40 documented languages. Bura, Vere, Chamba, Gaanda, Lala, Bacchama, Bata, Marghi and more and no they are not variations as you pointed out. But most of them are slowly being swallowed by Hausa and Fulani because those are the languages of trade, mobility and survival. So yes, your Borno security guard speaks Shuwa Arabic and your Sokoto okada man speaks Hausa and they understand each other perfectly. That does not mean only one language exists. It means one language won the economic argument. This is what linguists call language assimilation. The dominant language does not erase the others overnight. It just makes them less useful for daily survival until the younger generation stops learning them entirely. Now here are the facts. Ethnologue, which is the world's most authoritative database on languages, currently documents 520 living indigenous languages in Nigeria alone. Not dialects. Languages. Nigeria has also already lost 12 indigenous languages or more to extinction. Gone forever. The Middle Belt is where this becomes undeniable. Plateau State alone has over 50 distinct languages. Keyword "Dinstinct". Benue has Tiv, Idoma, Igede and more. Taraba has communities that cannot understand their neighbours two villages away without a translator. Your Yoruba example actually proves the point perfectly. The fact that a Yoruba person can move across the Southwest and be understood is evidence of one dominant language absorbing regional variations over centuries. That process happened. It is still happening everywhere else in Nigeria right now. Now I am willing to bet you have never heard of Hyam, Ngas, Mwaghavul, Berom, Amo, Buji, Sura, Anaguta, or Irigwe from Plateau State. Or Kilba, Huba, Bura-Pabir, and Chibok from Borno. Or Mumuye, Jenjo, Yukuben, and Wurkum from Taraba. Or Tur, Nyandang, Kugama and Taram further into the riverine communities nobody talks about. Or what about Igala, Ebira, Bassange, Bassa-Nge, Kakanda and Oworo from Kogi alone. I have not even touched Rivers, Cross River, Bayelsa, Edo, Ondo, or Nasarawa yet. You want to know exactly where each of these is spoken? You will have to tour Nigeria for that. And I promise you, this country will humble you in ways no map ever could. The 500 languages are not cap. Most of them are just quietly dying (Bura has an estimated 11,000 speakers with most young Bura people now not able to speak the language) while we debate whether they exist. And that is the real conversation Nigeria should be having.
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I don’t believe we speak up to 500 languages in Nigeria. Different dialects ?, yes. But over 500 languages is total cap. All the South western states speak Yoruba, diffferent variations ,yh but I doubt there’s no where a Yoruba person will go in southwest and not be able to communicate asides some parts of ondo that speak ijaw or the egun speaking communities in ogun state and Lagos & I’m sure this probably applies to people from the south east too. My former security guy in abk is from borno (north east), he said they speak a language called “shuwa Arabic” but he communicates well with another bikeman from sokoto. (North west) so where did the over 500 languages come from.

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Mirror Mirror@deleayuba·
@tyewoolove please what's the part 2 of the proverb àdán sorí kodò ó'n wòshe eye... Then when is it used?
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Ada
Ada@adanonso_·
If live in Nigeria, the UK, USA and Canada, you will quickly realize these countries train you in completely different survival skills. Nigeria teaches you resilience. You can survive bad roads, no light, no network, fuel scarcity and still show up looking fresh at owambe. The UK teaches you structure. Everything has a system. Buses arrive on time. Processes make sense. But the weather will humble you emotionally for 8 business months. Then Canada enters the chat. Canada teaches you patience and financial discipline. You will earn in dollars and still calculate whether buying strawberries this week is part of God’s plan. Then there is the USA America teaches you hustle culture and fear. Everybody is chasing money, opportunities and “the dream” at high speed. Your friend earning $150k is still stressed. Healthcare bills are moving like armed robbery. People are productive but permanently tired. And somehow every Nigerian abroad eventually develops the same hobbies. Comparing grocery prices Checking house listings for fun Converting everything to naira Discussing immigration policies like assistant ministers. In America we start talking about “multiple streams of income” after 2 weeks. The diaspora experience is one long group project in survival 😭
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SokoAnalyst
SokoAnalyst@SokoAnalyst·
DSTV laughed until Netflix arrived. Taxis slept until Uber moved. Shops ignored Shein and Temu. Newspapers mocked social media. Celebrities dismissed influencers. Every giant thinks disruption is noise, until it becomes the market. The real question is: who is sleeping now?
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Mirror Mirror@deleayuba·
@Ajairei Baba I pass you. I got 11k5.. all the money was spent on transport and paying for MCSE exams which cost 7k5 back then. Pupsie used to subsidise my feeding.
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Mirror Mirror@deleayuba·
@BlakeSNeff Data centers should just come pre-planned with a nuclear reactor and closed loop water cooling system. All these complainers can go and rest.
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Blake Neff
Blake Neff@BlakeSNeff·
One can have mixed opinions about AI itself, but the revolt against data centers is a very ugly sign for the U.S. It shows America headed in the direction of Europe, developing the moral sense that any kind of development or economic activity is somehow immoral, so it’s better to just not have such things. The proper response to worries about water is to point out that it is a hysterical lie (data center water use is minuscule compared to agriculture or other industries); the proper response to worries about electricity is to build more power plants as quickly as possible. The end result of this panic will be economic stagnation and domination by foreign powers that choose growth. wsj.com/tech/ai/the-am…
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Nairametrics
Nairametrics@Nairametrics·
Name a business that was everywhere in Nigeria 10 years ago and has completely disappeared today.
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Trending Explained
Trending Explained@TrendingEx·
Trending: South Africans are crashing out badly after Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, listed promising African countries to invest in and didn’t mention South Africa 🇿🇦 🇳🇬
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