New naming convention on Facebook

[Village-Boi]

That Arik Air thing taya me sha!

Ok, does that mean that there is NO 'UnNigerianianizing' of 'Ogbonna'? Haba! [by the way, my fb name is still same O, I am just curious to see how anyone go 'Oyibonize' 'gb' in OGBONNA. Oya, helep me! Just for the heck of it!

Lol, I'm sure you can un'Nigerianise it but it won't sound like that o!!... If I try am you go kill me.... 'Ogre-bone-Nar' you can jara it self and say 'Na Ogre bone Narnia' - oyinbo go understand your yarn!

Or you can East Europiawn it (drop 1st 3 letters) and call yaself 'Onna'.

 

[ssergit]

Lol, I'm sure you can un'Nigerianise it but it won't sound like that o!!... If I try am you go kill me.... 'Ogre-bone-Nar' you can jara it self and say 'Na Ogre bone Narnia' - oyinbo go understand your yarn!

Or you can East Europiawn it (drop 1st 3 letters) and call yaself 'Onna'.

:roll :roll

Chai! My great grand father shall get you!!!! na my family name u dey link to Narnia? hah!!!!

Ogre? Na Shrek?????

 

[Pete]

Such trendy spellings may help foreigners know how to pronounce our name o. I mean, they're spelled so phonetic dem no go fit butcher them. Come to think of it, we've been doing this for a while with names like Ijay, Iyke (=IK=Ikechukwu=Ikechi=Ikenna) and so on.

 

[Village-Boi]

:roll :roll

Chai! My great grand father shall get you!!!! na my family name u dey link to Narnia? hah!!!!

Ogre? Na Shrek?????

Hahaha epele my sista... yes Ogre na Shrek family but Shrek na the good kain of it... the promper ogbonge one... you really didn't want to know that kaind.

Such trendy spellings may help foreigners know how to pronounce our name o. I mean, they're spelled so phonetic dem no go fit butcher them. Come to think of it, we've been doing this for a while with names like Ijay, Iyke (=IK=Ikechukwu=Ikechi=Ikenna) and so on.

Pete, how now? It could be... but I bet 101+1% that has NEVER been the reason anyone Naija persin has done such. If they want oyinbo to sabi call their name... they must proudly teach him how to. Even me as a Nigerian cannot pronounce that inferior nonzenze they are writing... plus e dey make eye pain me!

 

[rudeboy]

so somebody named ebere will now be ay-bay-ray?
*sigh*

Or Air-Bay-Ray?

 

[rudeboy]

Do you know how many reporters Kanye West had to physically beat up to make that "ny" sound in his first name? But we? Haba, one Edwin Muofunanya sharp-sharp turned his name to Eddy Muffy! Nathaniel Eze Okoli became Nathy O'King, Benneth Ugwu is now Benny Hill! Nkiru Oku is Nikky Fires! Lewis Akaike is Louis Armstrong! And our poor Kenechukwu Stephen Nwatu sharpned up as Ken Stewart!

I live at Awkunanaw Enugu which is a colonial manipulation of Oku-na-ano, Enu Ugwu. Even Oka citizens proudly beat their chests screaming: I come from AWKA! No be small thing o! Facebook only borrowed a hoe to finally bury the already killed "effizzyy".

 

[rudeboy]

Ok, does that mean that there is NO 'UnNigerianianizing' of 'Ogbonna'?

I think you should blame your ancestors for acquiring a family name that has no potentials, whatsoever, to be unNigerianized!
Village Boy has already tushed out something but you are still screaming "blood of Jesus" all over his kind effort?
Well, let's see: How about "Oh Gbuo Now"? And oyibo version of this oyibo version, something like, "Oh Bow Now!" meaning you are from a royal lineage which I know it's true!

 

[Village-Boi]

Rudie! Rudie!! Rudie!!! How many times I'm talking ya name? I dey coffee shop dey spit coffee all over the floor - now dem wan ban Africans. No find mine tromble with this laugh you dey cause.

Holy Cow; them don call ponlice! No problem, if it reach court, name wey ponlice go call no go be the same as name me go tell Judge. It's so good to get off skotsfree on a plonouciation techinikality. I love mine name!!

 

[rudeboy]

I hear you, my brother, Village-Boi! Be careful with all dem coffee now! Follow dem ponlice go meet Oga Judge. None of dem mother-four-cars can say your "jigga" name correctly. So e go be one-one still on that your "plonouciation techinikality". Nothing spoin sha!

 

[Village-Boi]

I hear you, my brother, Village-Boi! Be careful with all dem coffee now! Follow dem ponlice go meet Oga Judge. None of dem mother-four-cars can say your "jigga" name correctly. So e go be one-one still on that your "plonouciation techinikality". Nothing spoin sha!

Yawa don pass. Ponlice ask what I am did for a living - I'm said I'm a living at sixty-tarteen Okokomaiko Str. Dem scratch head come waka pass! No Judge, no padded cell... nothing!!

 

[Thickmadam]

OMG OMG OMG!!
Rudie and VBoi, what did i do to you this morning?
i am crying, absolutely crying in laughter and its a good thing i haven't made my cup of tea/coffee yet. it would definitely have been a spit all over the place moment.

Oh Abasi, these people on this site will not kill me o. lai lai.

 

[noone]

hmmmmmm...... I can twist my middle name to Eejayohmah.......but, pray, who can help, how would ogbonna be twisted?

Eejayawma Awg-bawnaah, pleased to meet you. My name is M-g-bae-kae M-g-baw-for. Have you met my friend Awlaryaemee Aakeentoondae? We were class mates in Aek-pawma University in Aedo State.

 

[Village-Boi]

Eejayawma Awg-bawnaah, pleased to meet you. My name is M-g-bae-kae M-g-baw-for. Have you met my friend Awlaryaemee Aakeentoondae? We were class mates in Aek-pawma University in Aedo State.

Kai, I don dey lost for NR lol

 

[Aust_nne]

Tufiakwa!!!! Ogbonna wu aha nnam o. biko, nwere nu ya nwayo before nnannam enwe ezigbo iwe o

 

[Thickmadam]

that's it!
i'm done! absolutely done. i thought it was safe but thanks Aust_nne and Tam-tam
*mopping up coffee spat on my shirt and keyboard*

it's so funny when people pronounce uk's name and they make the "you" for the U and uk is quick to say, it's not You-kyu-kyu.
the first time he did that, he must have been 3 or 4. chei...

Tufiakwa!!!! Ogbonna wu aha nnam o. biko, nwere nu ya nwayo before nnannam enwe ezigbo iwe o

 

[noone]

Tufiakwa!!!! Ogbonna wu aha nnam o. biko, nwere nu ya nwayo before nnannam enwe ezigbo iwe o

Austie baby,

Okwesi ka nna gi wee iwe! Ifuro ife ndia ji af'anyi emegasi (You're father is supposed to get angry; can't you see what these people are doing to our names)

Tchynwe/ Tcheenwae = Chinwe
Awbeeagirlie = Obiageli
Eephaeyeenwar = Ifeyinwa

Aarbeeawla = Abiola
Aarkeentoonde = Akintunde and so on

So your father's ire is justified; matter of fact so is every one of us on this thread!

 

[noone]

that's it!
i'm done! absolutely done. i thought it was safe but thanks Anne and Tam-tam
*mopping up coffee spat on my shirt and keyboard*

it's so funny when people pronounce uk's name and they make the "you" for the U and uk is quick to say, it's not You-kyu-kyu.
the first time he did that, he must have been 3 or 4. chei...

Oh, hello You-Rae, nice to meet you. Did you say you spat coffe on your keyboard? My friend, Awyeendaamawlar did the same thing? It was her brother, Aardeiwaalei, that took it to their cousin's laundromat, I think his name is Aarzoobooeekay...anyway, he did a good job of getting the stains out.

My name is Chooqumaaeefae and I reside in London with my cousin, Enkaycheenyaeray.

 

[rudeboy]

Oh, hello You-Rae, nice to meet you. Did you say you spat coffe on your keyboard? My friend, Awyeendaamawlar did the same thing? It was her brother, Aardeiwaalei, that took it to their cousin's laundromat, I think his name is Aarzoobooeekay...anyway, he did a good job of getting the stains out.

My name is Chooqumaaeefae and I reside in London with my cousin, Enkaycheenyaeray.

Okay, this is going ballistic! Could you, please, translate those "abracadabra" names?

At least I know You-Rae is URE.
What in the world is Awyeendaamawlar?
Is Aardeiwaalei same as Adewale?
And I am hoping Aarzoobooeekay is not Azubuike?
Is Chooqumaaeefae Chukwuma-what?
And, of course, Enkaycheenyaeray sounds like Nkechinyere?

Oya, you brainy babe, score me abeg!

 

[noone]

Okay, this is going ballistic! Could you, please, translate those "abracadabra" names?

At least I know You-Rae is URE.
What in the world is Awyeendaamawlar?
Is Aardeiwaalei same as Adewale?
And I am hoping Aarzoobooeekay is not Azubuike?
Is Chooqumaaeefae Chukwuma-what?
And, of course, Enkaycheenyaeray sounds like Nkechinyere?

Oya, you brainy babe, score me abeg!

Awyeendaamawlar - Oyindamola

Chooqumaaeefae - Chukwumaife

All the others = all correct

 

[Abike]

Rudie you don craze!!!!!!!!!!!! :roll