Comments on naijablog: Interesting photo in today's paper

perhaps its not quite 'gaydian' i hear - more like...

2006-08-20T20:11:00.000+01:00

perhaps its not quite 'gaydian' i hear - more like "gee-ah-dian"..there's an inflection in the first vowel sound which 'ay' doesnt capture. The typical British pronunciation would surely by "gaadian".. Whenever I ask for it with my usual back-home formulation the street vendors often don't know what I'm asking for.

Ayoke, how is it cynical to try to record what one hears? If I comment that Caribbeans/Africans often say 'peer' when pronouncing the word 'pear', and white Anglo Saxons more commonly pronounce it 'pare' am I also being cynical? Isn't it more like a poetical exercise, trying to write down phonetically what one hears? One could do this for any dialect of English. I recall a poem that is written phonetically in Geordie dialect which is extraodinary..I'm not sure the poet was trying to be cynical.

Give it a rest Ayoke, Who are you to say its not a...

2006-08-20T14:53:00.000+01:00

Give it a rest Ayoke,
Who are you to say its not a fact just because YOU haven't heard it before.

Typical Nigerian arrogance.

"I haven't seen/heard of this before and so therefore it doesn't exist".

pronounced 'Gaydian'Jeremy, please. I second Olami...

2006-08-19T21:22:00.000+01:00

pronounced 'Gaydian'

Jeremy, please. I second Olamide. Who pronounces it that way? Temper your cynicism with some facts.

She's frowning because the sun's in her face. Som...

2006-08-19T19:58:00.000+01:00

She's frowning because the sun's in her face. Sometimes a cigar's just a cigar.

Gah-dian, more like.Excellent photo, I agree.

2006-08-19T15:50:00.000+01:00

Gah-dian, more like.

Excellent photo, I agree.

I dont know who you speak to but i know the guardi...

2006-08-19T15:24:00.000+01:00

I dont know who you speak to but i know the guardian is not pronounced that way!