Comments on naijablog: Another beautifully crafted sentence

fire the editor

2007-11-05T15:25:00.000+01:00

fire the editor

I may be wrong, but if Great Britain and the Unite...

2007-10-20T12:28:00.000+01:00

I may be wrong, but if Great Britain and the United States are somehow destroyed (Please, abeg, FBI, this is a hypothetical situation, dont swarm and shut down my computer), wont Nigeria be the last most populous English, ahem "English"-speaking nation on the earth? Frightening stuff, altho really wont we then have the last laugh on colonialism?

Hilarious! I miss having access to Naija papers, t...

2007-10-19T18:18:00.000+01:00

Hilarious! I miss having access to Naija papers, they serve better for an old-fashioned belly laugh than any comedy on TV.

I think someone should create a BBC show focusing on Nigerian Journalism - comedy gold.

I remember reading Chimamanda somewhere saying "My...

2007-10-19T16:52:00.000+01:00

I remember reading Chimamanda somewhere saying "My people never buy when they can purchase" and I thought she hit the nail on the head

HUH!!???!!! 'OBSU-GINI'? I can't get past the firs...

2007-10-19T15:36:00.000+01:00

HUH!!???!!! 'OBSU-GINI'? I can't get past the first line. Still trying to figure out what that means. WHERE THE HELL IS MY DICTIONARY WHEN i NEED IT?

...stinkingly rich, international countries. where...

2007-10-18T20:35:00.000+01:00

...stinkingly rich, international countries. where do it all end?

Sorry, what I meant to say was "a whooping N628m"....

2007-10-18T15:44:00.000+01:00

Sorry, what I meant to say was "a whooping N628m"...

Na wa for big, big grammar. A lot of the newspaper...

2007-10-18T15:24:00.000+01:00

Na wa for big, big grammar. A lot of the newspaper output is unreadable. Some repeated misuse of language is puzzling, like "a whooping N200m".
BTW love the blog, the range of content is superb.

Uh, excuse me- this journalist HAS obviously taken...

2007-10-18T12:35:00.000+01:00

Uh, excuse me- this journalist HAS obviously taken a writing course. "Fog", "conjure","obfuscate(?!)", "clarification" ,"insight", even "investigation"? The man found a metaphor and ran with it. So WHAT if it doesnt make sense?Pure poetry. And usually, if its one of our (to borrow a word) erstwhile dailies, pure fiction.

From the sentence, they are two different people, ...

2007-10-17T23:37:00.000+01:00

From the sentence, they are two different people, Dariye is the one "obsufucating" the import of funds, while the person trying to import the funds is the "erstwhile" governor. That is exactly what the sentence implies! hehehehehehehe.

I haven't got a clue

2007-10-17T23:16:00.000+01:00

I haven't got a clue

nah......can't understand it either :(

2007-10-17T20:24:00.000+01:00

nah......can't understand it either :(

You're right, Jeremy. Lots of newspaper editors an...

2007-10-17T20:22:00.000+01:00

You're right, Jeremy. Lots of newspaper editors and reporters really need to be sent off to basic writing courses. Sometimes, I read these dailies and their abuse of grammar is so rampant that I wouldn't be able to go on reading!

Oh my..Obsufucate?? In what world exactly doe this...

2007-10-17T17:25:00.000+01:00

Oh my..Obsufucate?? In what world exactly doe this guy live??