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Obododimma Oha

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Jul 21, 2019, 7:20:02 AM7/21/19
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To begin the week, I am writing about WhatsApp interaction on one of
my blogs. To read the full essay, please, click on this link:

https://obododimma-oha.blogspot.com/2019/07/whatsapping-in-tongues.html


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Gbemi Tijani

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Jul 21, 2019, 12:16:48 PM7/21/19
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Good write-up.l love creative people in town,writers and intellectuals that can build castles out of empty package of the then star lager beer or stout.You re known for this and they are nonetheless raw material for current knowledge review and the inevitable impact of tech revolution.Too bad you re missed at the recent nbcyemisonde 6th
 broadcast media stakeholders forum held at the UI  last week.Sure you would ve contributed some thing new from the past as UNESCO experts would say.However your colleagues did justice to their assignments. Frankly speaking despite  Steve Job s indelible exit I don't think the birds of the same feather flying majorly in the West have reached dead-ends  of any device upgrade nor are we consumers assuaged enough to declare the next model and iconography as superfluous.
If we don't yield to learn the latest relevant to you or your  career practice  you will most likely get lost or get drowned and atimes the consequences of neglect at the micro level might be that of 'fish out of water's..At the continental level it'll be more expansively  pedestrian than what  our elder novelist ,Mongo Beti tagged linguistic feudalism a decade before his passage.

 Any blogger or internet user not yet browsing in their own language or dialect is still nakedly swimming in that large pool of No Privacy 'hot soup'--
unlike  his own bathtub.
So in Africa who's  the next 'Mark Zukerberg?'
Or more candidly in the absence of serendipity who has been failing in any field of human endeavor - positively creative or eccentric - wise ? Remember the Facebook giant s most strategic strength was not only his boosting dental surgeon dad  but his own psycho- environmental affirmative
The ,'freedom to fail'.
Time didn't permit me at  last Thursday NBC-YSE LTD to ask if there are still 50 yr - o unpaid journalists working with Uncle Sam,they should sack their boss as network marketers would do and partner with like-minds and get creatively or uniquely productive.
One of Oprah Winfrey ' s best friends,resigned and few years back Gayle King opened her new house worth $7m .
Dispassionately speaking the CEO of Yemi Sonde and two other veterans coupled with those editors that found their ways out after The Concord Staple was put in its death knell alive are local examples of independently creative professionals. 
Few examples of ANTI - Uncle Sam perennial employment mindset abound all over the geopolitical zones  in NIGERIA inclusive of talented individuals or exceptionally fantastic journalists or doctors/specialists who   work all their lives retired without plan B as i retire!  No matter how slow they rise up - it's the society that will be more impoverished.Imagine the likes of Sigmund Freud,Past PDGs -medical specialists K.Owoka & K.Mustapha founders of HMO at the earliest time!They never settled in their comfort zones.T.Oderinde is another <50 engr,banker and successful networker who never want 'his house to become a warehouse of any product' 
Others in the medical field - all other titles
Awards unattached  are Drs Afilaka,Finih,Falomo Okupe,Marinho,Obembe, Griffin Olabisi,Bello,Periola,Momoh Kupolati and Late Agbaje,Toun ,Bashorun & Elebute.

Google s Larry page and Amazon s Jeff Bezos stories are not just inspiring but unbelievable. Yet  their fortunes are not unconnected  with writings and books.If you know  what the latter's wife donated to a fund coordinated by Warren Buffet & Bill Gates  to make the world better- you will say Wow in this same planet.

Who could have known these music stars?
Michael Jackson,Fela Anikulapo kuti  and incredibly few of the friends they invited  if they ve not meditated their real potentials and gifts beyond  reheazing their excellence away for Uncle Sam?.I can't list all  here yet not neglected.You could ve added more in your own horizon of achievers who couldn't have been significant nor  Networthy if  they had stayed on with salary job.

Friends ought to be like  living organisms.

gbemi tijani mst 210719


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Obododimma Oha

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Jul 21, 2019, 3:43:19 PM7/21/19
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Thanks, Tijani. Sad that I missed that intellectual feast. A synergy for further action and learning experience, please.
Sincerely,
Oha.

Ezinwanyi Adam

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Jul 22, 2019, 4:19:58 AM7/22/19
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Hmmmmmm... Prof., I couldn't hold myself from laughing hard after going through the chat between Mike and Dora. Both made use of the available internet linguistic modes to communicate to each other.  However, Dora's deficiency in the use of the English language is lucid. For such a person, the use of smileys and emoticons becomes a compelling way of sailing through the tides of digital communication.

It's indeed a digital world and everyone can survive in it, whether 'you sabi write' 'correct' English or not, 'there is room enough for all'. Dora's shortcomings remained unnoticed until Mike's prompting... I'm sure he realised it was best to let her be. With the emoticons and all, we can communicate in the best modes possible. More like 'I biri ka m biri' - 'Live make I live' worldview.
Thank you for the essay.

'Everything good will come' - Sefi Atta 

Warmest regards,
Ezinwanyi

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Obododimma Oha

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Jul 22, 2019, 6:18:02 AM7/22/19
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So you also noticed Dora's incipient bilingualism (or is transcoding) (code-switching) typicality, which is also part of the code-based humour? Is it shithole expression? I left that side so as not to end up being prescriptive and normative!

Na wa a for Dorastic encoding of shithole depreciation!

Thanks. Really inspiring!
Obododimma.
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Emeagwali, Gloria (History)

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Jul 22, 2019, 9:42:19 AM7/22/19
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Well I just stumbled on Rosalind  Thomas. (1999). Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece.Cambridge UP-
where a  point is made that Plato
deeply distrusted the written word as a means of true education and elaborates on this in his ”Phaedrus”.Greek borrowing of the Phoenician  alphabet
may have had something to do with this
but the view that “knowledge should  be in the soul not on paper” was apparently common.  Anyway talking about WhatsApp etc,  I wonder how other civilizations across time and space  would have viewed this mode of communication- assuming they could envisage it!




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Gbemi Tijani

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Not to worry Prof Obodooha many opportunities pending to synergize for the good of all.gbemi tijani MST

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