QUESTION OF THE DAY????

WHAT WORD BEGINS WITH THE LETTER  'D' AND ENDS WITH 'O' APART FROM 'DO'????????????

Question of the day:

What is a "phone" called in your native language?  is it possible that when your ancestors were composing your native language there was no such word as a"phone" then so therefore there was no provision for the word. If u missed my article on languages  check here

Question of the day:

Is it okay to fall in love with your friend's ex?, even though the said friend has  moved on

QUESTION OF THE DAY

talking about the death penalty
   Is killing a man the best way of telling him killing someone else is not good ???????????

opinion poll;who is really to blame, FG OR ASUU ???

Except you have been living under a rock and u don't know about  the more than 100 days old industrial strike action embarked upon by the academic staff union of universities (ASUU)


we are tempted to ask who is really to blame for the lingering strike action ASUU or the FG

who is really to blame?

 The FG for not fulfilling their end of the 2009 deal or ASUU for not accepting to shift grounds and negotiate the agreement and unnecessarily keeping Nigerian students at home and refusing to dialogue with the government

brain teaser: How smart are you?

today is kind of a slow day, gist wise...so i just thought why not make you all crack ur brain and lets see how smart you really are ........l

F**K SCHOOL........LETS ALL INVENT SHIT!!!!!!

   Aliko Dangote -notably the richest black man in the world

  Steve Jobs - the genius behind "apple inc" which is now the world's most valuable brand

 Mark zuckerberg creator and founder of facebook the worlds largest online social networking site

 Bill Gates - the founder of microsoft and one time richest man in the world

Albert Einstein - the world's smartest man and founder of the theory of relativity

Thomas Edison - the man who perfected electricity held a world record of 1093 patents for inventions such as the light bulb and phonograph

John D. Rockefeller - the world's first billionaire

Richard Branson - founder and ceo of virgin atlantic owner of virgin airways and the virgin galactic space shuttle the first space commercial airline

Tu face "Innocent" idibia - a living legend as he has left his mark on the music scene home and abroad with over 500 tunes credited to him

     U know what they all have in common apart from fame and wealth?

They were all high school or college drop outs

all of them gave up on formal education at one point in their lives and still managed to greatly impact the world and their generation in their own way. They and many more like them.

 So then does this Contradict the popularly saying   "EDUCATION IS THE KEY" as it wasn't the key to this distinguished set of people

  All this distinguished personalities although lived in different times and circumstances all have one thing in common they stumbled upon the key without any form of formal education, does these then mean that this KEY is not hidden somewhere in BIO 101, PHY202, ACC101or BAF401

Or rather did we all get it wrong and misunderstood the point, if so what type of education is really the key?

Formal education?

Informal education? Or

Non-formal education?

 

 What type education was actually being referred  to in this popular saying "EDUCATION IS THE KEY"

Will this generation of Nigerian youths have ASUU or the FG to blame for not getting their 'key'?

 Is it possible that our university education really has nothing to do with getting the key to unlocking life's mysteries?

  
   Gov. Rotimi ameachi recently advised NYSC corp members during their POP (pass out parade) to get self employment rather than depend on white collar or government jobs, so then blog visitors is after NYSC the best time to start being self employed?

Can it be said that the University is just a well-tailored environment for professional pursuit?

It has been argued that to succeed in life What you need are mostly social skills to get along with people, enthusiasm, or adherence to the success aimed at.

  
  It is then nonsense to narrow our eyes focusing on university education lamentably for our future. Success means not all the same for different people, and always leaves us different ways to achieve it. Life is just like a maze and as such Where there is a will, there is always a way out for success.

  

So why shouldn't we all just drop out and start inventing stuff?

  
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Question of the day: What Lanuguage do you think in????

Most people would readily say this is easy "English language of course" or any other local dialect they speak, but stop and think about it for a while what language would a deaf man think in as

he would probably not understand any actual language

If u had super powers and u were to speak to someone through your thoughts in what language would you  converse?

 How do u explain yourself in your head?

 It is probably a bit more confusing for those who speaks more than one language than for those who re monodialetic and speak only one language

how does our brains shuffle between languages in order to pick the right language for a particular line of thought

But how do we make the distinction between which language to think in why,when and how?

 Rhetorical huh?

  In my opinion though I think there is a universal language which all being, animals and humans alike speak and it is a language we all understand a language made up of pictures,

for the purpose of this post we can term it "THE PICTORIAL LANGUAGE".

  This is why it is possible for two people who speak completely different languages lets say Chinese and Spanish to actually think about the same thing or have the same idea accurately.

Think about your first house and tell me what you see

Do u see the words F I R S T  H O U S E or do u actually have an image in your head of an actual house or think about your C A R or your first car and tell me if u see the letters C A R or an actual car..your dream car although not necessarily accurate but it goes to show that we all think with pictures we create images in our head and put them in motion

  So in that vein is it actually correct to say people don't think in words or any particular language rather we all think with pictures or PICTORIAL LANGUAGE as we have termed it

This post is thereby argumentative as I do not really have answers to this question and am merely laying out my opinions which are within my own sphere of reasoning...

   This post is also open to constructive criticism as I would love to understand what language you think in 

"VANITY UPON VANITY"...ALL IS VANITY..

I got a very interesting message from a friend yesterday and decided to share it with my blog visitors

 "I vividly Recall My MUM telling me about a man in my Neighborhood who became popular for engaging in money rituals just to buy the 80's edition of the Honda Prelude. U wouldn't buy that car for 50k today. Some other guy brutally murdered his brother ( whom their father gave cash 2 travel 4 the purpose of re- stocking their warehouse), just 'cos he wanted 2 acquire the rave of the moment - Pathfinder Jeep. That same vehicle is now better described as a coffin. I Remember as a kid, my whole street gathered to watch a truck deliver a very large satellite dish to my neighbor's house. Today a dish one tenth that size delivers 5 times the value and is in almost every student's room. What about the Volkswagen Santana, Mercedes Benz V boot, 505 Evolution, Toyota Crown, all overtaken by latest models of Camry, Honda, Bugatti, Bentley, X6, Acura and Infinity.... Vanity! Some ladies left their true loves cos some rich guy then persuaded them with a Benz 190, which turned out 2 be the only car they ever owned till date. They found out too late that true love is invaluable. A friend declared drinks because he launched the Nokia Communicator for over hundred grand in 2002. Today that phone would embarrass the owner and is a joke compared to the low cost and everyday phone. What about d MTN sim card that many people went extra miles b4 dey bought for over 30k, today u will not buy it at N100 because all networks are begging people to even take it for free. People are still making the most horrific sacrifices over 'vanity' and make enemies over worthless material things. What can I Say? Look back at that one thing you want to kill or die for today and see what becomes of it tomorrow. There is absolutely nothing u can't achieve, all u need is a little time and PATIENCE and u would thank God without regrets".... Be Wise! Friends,do have a lovely day

THE MYSTERY BEHIND THE LANGUAGES U SPEAK...........

I  recently watched a christian tv show where I saw a pastor perform a miracle on a deaf and dumb man and when he was asked to speak, he could speak..but then it hit me, how?

  How could he master the complexity of the english language within seconds of hearing it for the first time

Language can be defined as the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way

So how does a deaf man who can't hear the pronounciation of the letter A as 'hay' capitulate within seconds the pronounciation of the word 'ABLE'

Why does 'to', 'two', 'too' all sound alike but have different meanings?

Hence I wonder what language the child of a dumb woman who was raised lets say on a desserted island would grow up to speak. assuming the child wasn't dumb could they create there own language as The need for communication has always been a basic need for the human race. Then how did we come about sounds and consonants and vowels and phonetics.......

I often wonder why as babies we can master the complexities in language and be able able to attach sounds to words and give those words meaning to form the bases of an understanding

U can Try to form an alphabet by jst drawing a random sign but try pronouncing it without using any of the known alphabets for instance try pronouncing   אֶת-הָעִי

So How did we distinguish the english language from  french

Aw did we attach meaning to these words.

What makes the letters  'T', 'H', 'I', 'N', 'K' mean think?

I know some would refer to the bible in the city of babel when God scattered the people while trying to create the tower with different tongues but the issue here is how the languages evolved and how our forefather's gibberish turned into yourba, hausa or igbo  and how we were able to synchronize every yoruba, igbo or hausa statements with actual meaning in english

 

How does the brain capitulate words?

 The smae ltteers anraged difrneftly maens a difrneft tihng and as cmopelx as it is u smeohow uesdnatnrd waht am aulaclty wrnitig rhigt now

 Why weren't we just speaking when we were born and why did we have to speak gibberish for a couple of year before growing to learn....

   What if babies gibberish  is actually a language and maybe the original language we are supposed to be speaking cos it was what we were born with.

  think about it all babies makes the same sound no matter the tribe or country they are from

What if its a universal language?

If so imagine what was going on in your head as a baby when people couldn't understand you.

   Why was it easy for you to  learn and understand a new language as a 3 year old and harder for you to learn a new language as an adult(u might try learning chinese now and let's see how that goes)

    what do u think

NIGERIA IS OURS NOT THEIR'S.......If you re a well meaning Nigerian pls read this

  Hurray Nigeria is 53....and the most popular greeting for the day is "HAPPY INDEPENCE"

But what re we really happy about ? Are we really independent? 

 

  We live in a country where Aso Rock is voting N300,000,000 to buy dinning sets; over N1 billion for food; N375,000,000 for refreshments and N37, 277,825 for publicity and advertisement while according to world bodies majority of the masses live on below $1 per day

   

   We live in a country where the minister for heath travel out of the country regularly for medical checkups, and we have ministers of education who have their kids studying in private universities or abroad as well as ministers for transport who has probably never stepped foot in a public vehicle as norms 

   

  We live in a country where the political structure and component has not evolved since independence 53 years ago, a country where change which is the only constant in life has had no effect in the set of names and families that has graced the desks and doors of our country's highest political offices

  

  We live in a country where the higher education system has been shut down for 90days still with no solution in view and while the president in his recent media chat rather than to take necessary affirmative action to put an end to the continuing threats of the indefinite industrial strike action is appealing to the emotions of the striking lecturers 

We live in a country where when the president was asked about the incessant terror attacks in the nation and whether or not the most wanted man in Nigeria who has caused terror and hardship particularly to the northern part of the country is dead or alive he says "I don't know if shekau is alive or dead even sef you journalist know more than me"

  

  We live in a country where the saying that youths are the leaders of tomorrow is a popular one and yet the youngest democratically elected president we've ever had is 54 years old 

So blog visitors and Nigerian youths it begs the question 'when is the future'?, when is tomorrow ?

 

 And we are all asked to imbibe the spirit of celebration, I laugh in spanish as I ask what is really there to celebrate? 

I crave to celebrate for a country where leaders are being mandated to believe in the system they are appointed to administer  

 

A system where ministers of health are being mandated to have all their medical emergencies and checkups in Nigeria hence giving them reason to improve the medical sector 

  A system in which the Minister of education is educated in a nigerian university, federal or state owned so as to ensure that she/he understands the standard or level of education and knows where the problems are and what to do since he/she has gone through the system and who in turn should have their children schooled in Nigeria thereby allowing for transparency in the sector

    Or a system where the Minister of transport travels publicly in a public transportation system rather than with a convoy of exotic cars and helicopters while the masses are being asked to ride tricycles and endure the hardship of bad roads and the likes

How do we have a better tomorrow without young internally educated Nigerians who has passed through the system and understands it 

I have come to understand that nigeria does not need a perfect leader but rather a consistent set of leaders

But how do you manage to get a set of consistent leaders When young nigerians are not even entitled to free flowing quality education without consistent strike actions to disrupt the education process 

We might be too young to be politicians or not influential enough to lobby for political appointments but we have a voice and it must be heard as we are the future of this country  

And if continue to convince ourselves that we can't do anything and remain quiet, as silent leaders of tomorrow what would be left to lead when both foreign and domestic debts makes the country ungovernable in the future or when our sole dependence on oil has led to the dwindling diminishing of the natural resource 

 but when we believe in the power of togetherness, unity and youthful vigor and on this independence day rather than dance gallivant and jubilate we all unite and use the power of social media at our disposal to make a statement and let our voices echo through to the highest echelons of government. So rather than overlook this post and go about smiling in sorrow, rather than celebrating independence in penury. Let's speak out for ourselves by re-broadcasting this link on any and every social media at our disposal, let's stand up for what we believe in as 

 NIGERIA IS OURS NOT THEIR'S

#save9ja