Are We Still Speaking The Same English?

Good Morning Dear Readers of OTTH, I hope you had a nice weekend because mine was uggghh! I was going to write this yesterday but due to one reason and the other I couldn’t. There’s something that has been bugging me for a while now and since I was thinking of what to write, I decided to write about it. It might sound funny but its something serious oooo, hits me like a bullet every time it happens. Enough of the intro ba? You people like gist ehnnn but let me sha continue.

Last week Sunday, just this last week ooo, I went to church and the choir presented a very beautiful song which was very perfect except for the person who led the song who is the one that inspired this write-up. Before I continue, biko let me ask, is it by force to form an accent you don’t have? Because I don’t understand, well I’ll come back to that. So, he was pronouncing worship as “wrorsrip”, and believe me it sounded very funny and annoying at the same time. That wasn’t the only one he pronounced like that, that’s just the one that kept ringing in my head even hours after the choir ministration was over.

Asides the church thing, I hear people pronounce “talk” as “thalk” and “take” as “thake” and others like that. It makes me wonder if its by force to fake whatever country’s accent when you’re clearly built for “Nigerian english”. Incase you’re reading this and you’re still on your fake accent project, I have two advices for you; its either you fake it really well to the extent that it begins to sound original OR you back off on this mission because it only makes you sound ridiculous. There’s nothing wrong with speaking your normal English wherever you are as long as you’re using the right tenses. Not using him for her, was for is and the likes, if your tenses are correct, you’re fine. Infact, people would love your original English better than your fake English. Imagine speaking the wrong English in the name of forming God-knows-what in public or among your “tush” friends, if they don’t laugh at you right there and then (that’s if they even noticed), they’d laugh at you in your absence.

If you speak like that naturally, this is not for you because I am not here to criticize who God has made you but if you are faking it, please change or do it well so we won’t notice at all. I’d rest my case here before I offend somebody. Enjoy the rest of your day.

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