You
guys need to read this hilarious interview grammarian and current Chief
of Staff to the Edo State Governor, Patrick Obahiagbon granted to Punch. Excerpts below...
Why do you always speak ‘big grammar’?I am not really consensus ad idem with those who opine that my idiolect is advertently obfuscative. No no no, it’s just that I am in my elements when the colloquy has to do with the pax nigeriana of our dreams and one necessarily needs to fulminate against the alcibiadian modus vivendi of our prebendal political class.How did you start speaking in this manner?It all happened when my father brought me a teaser which stated that good orators had ruled the world and you must have to be a feisty orator if you must rule the world. As an impressionable young man, I alacritously threw myself into the whirligig of improving my usage of words by amassing new words on a daily basis.
How do you talk to your wife, children and even your friends?
I
relate with my family and friends very warmly and in an atmosphere of
camaraderie, stripped of my confutational habiliment and gladiatorial
homilies. I am a very peaceful, calm, level-headed and celestially
attuned soul personality.
Is this the way you proposed to your wife, speaking high tech grammar?
Of
course, the business of the day when I interfaced with my wife on
matters of the heart had to be in plain Caeser’s language and you can
decipher why that had to be so. The matter in view did not permit itself
of sphinxian conundrum.
It’s a long time ago, so I can’t
remember the exact words I used. We had a relationship for ten years
before we got married. We’re looking at close to 20 years ago.
Did you write exams in school in these big words?
I
used such words very-very freely in my exams both at the secondary
school and in my university and little wonder I had the misfortune of my
English results being seized intermittently in my O’ Levels. WAEC
released my results for the other subjects and withheld my English
result. This happened for about three years. Twice, I passed the
University Matriculation Examination but I could not proceed to the
University because of my English results that were not released. At the
end of the day, it was released after the third attempt.
How many dictionaries do you read a day and how often do you read dictionaries?
I
have read and still do read a vaudeville of dictionaries from Websters
to Funk and Wagnalls, from Cambridge to Oxford dictionaries, from
Black’s Law Dictionary to Encarta and from Encyclopedia Britannica to
Foreignisms, etcetera. I developed my corpus of vocabulary by reading
omnivorously. I have also spent nothing less than an hour daily on my
dictionary for over twenty years. So, whereas the dictionary for most
people is a mere occasional reference point, it is for, me a vade-mecum.
It may also interest you to know that there is much to learn from our
daily newspapers.
Was English your best subject?
My
best subject in secondary school was government and religion and am
sure that I was drawn to religion because, I now know as a student of
Rosicrucian mysticism, that I was a student of divine light in my last
incarnation. As for government, I just fell in love with the subject due
to my early attraction in life to issues of political-economy.
So what did you score in English language?
English
language was of course my hobbyhorse and passion but like I earlier
asseverated, my results were constantly guillotined to my utter chagrin
that I had to lapse into a jeremiad of lachrymoseim for a period of
aeon. I would need to check the result again to be sure of my score.
Do you pray the same way you speak?
God
understands all languages, my brother and I pray to God using any word
that pops up. May I posit that the key points in prayers are your
sincerity, purity of heart, walking within the compass and to what
extent are you ready and worthy of receiving the benediction of the
cosmic and the cosmic masters because as we say in mysticism- “when the
students are ready, the masters would appear.”
Take my words
my brother that more than seventy per cent of humanity don’t know how to
pray but that is a matter for another day.
Do you know that many people don’t take you too seriously when you talk because they think you are not communicating
Why
will I be perturbed from ensconcing myself in the palatable arms of
Morpheus because people have deprived themselves of the cultivation of
the regime of the mental magnitude? I read all the farrago of baloneys
and vacuous bunkum from pepper soup objurgators. The spirit of
animadversion remains their fundamental human right. It also remains an
indubitable fact that I get millions and millions of requests daily from
people all over the world requesting for my verbal mentorship which
positive cosmopolitan reactions have assisted my equipoise and righteous
sense of pachydermatous garb. I cannot put my nose to the grindstone
daily and expect to be understood by those luxuriating in a modus
vivendi, verging on pepper souping, goat heading, suyaing, big stouting and isiewulising.
Has a philosophical wag not once pontificated that things of the spirit
are spiritually discerned and that it takes the deep to call the deep?
We will speak more on this matter of critiques and chichi dodo another day.
Why do you pull your trousers up beyond the waist?
Hahahaha….That trousers style is called Yohji Yamamoto.
It was my own audacious statement to remonstrate against the pervasive
tendency of Nigerians especially our youths that took to the practice of
putting on trousers exposing their lower anatomical contours and I will
do it over and over again.
You guys need to read this hilarious interview grammarian and current
Chief of Staff to the Edo State Governor, Patrick Obahiagbon granted to Punch. Excerpts below...
Why do you always speak ‘big grammar’?I am not really consensus ad idem with those who opine that my idiolect is advertently obfuscative. No no no, it’s just that I am in my elements when the colloquy has to do with the pax nigeriana of our dreams and one necessarily needs to fulminate against the alcibiadian modus vivendi of our prebendal political class.How did you start speaking in this manner?It all happened when my father brought me a teaser which stated that good orators had ruled the world and you must have to be a feisty orator if you must rule the world. As an impressionable young man, I alacritously threw myself into the whirligig of improving my usage of words by amassing new words on a daily basis.
How do you talk to your wife, children and even your friends?
I relate with my family and friends
very warmly and in an atmosphere of camaraderie, stripped of my
confutational habiliment and gladiatorial homilies. I am a very
peaceful, calm, level-headed and celestially attuned soul personality.
Is this the way you proposed to your wife, speaking high tech grammar?
Of course, the business of the day when
I interfaced with my wife on matters of the heart had to be in plain
Caeser’s language and you can decipher why that had to be so. The matter
in view did not permit itself of sphinxian conundrum.
It’s a long time ago, so I can’t
remember the exact words I used. We had a relationship for ten years
before we got married. We’re looking at close to 20 years ago.
Did you write exams in school in these big words?
I used such words very-very freely in
my exams both at the secondary school and in my university and little
wonder I had the misfortune of my English results being seized
intermittently in my O’ Levels. WAEC released my results for the other
subjects and withheld my English result. This happened for about three
years. Twice, I passed the University Matriculation Examination but I
could not proceed to the University because of my English results that
were not released. At the end of the day, it was released after the
third attempt.
How many dictionaries do you read a day and how often do you read dictionaries?
I have read and still do read a
vaudeville of dictionaries from Websters to Funk and Wagnalls, from
Cambridge to Oxford dictionaries, from Black’s Law Dictionary to Encarta
and from Encyclopedia Britannica to Foreignisms, etcetera. I developed
my corpus of vocabulary by reading omnivorously. I have also spent
nothing less than an hour daily on my dictionary for over twenty years.
So, whereas the dictionary for most people is a mere occasional
reference point, it is for, me a vade-mecum. It may also interest you to
know that there is much to learn from our daily newspapers.
Was English your best subject?
My best subject in secondary school was
government and religion and am sure that I was drawn to religion
because, I now know as a student of Rosicrucian mysticism, that I was a
student of divine light in my last incarnation. As for government, I
just fell in love with the subject due to my early attraction in life to
issues of political-economy.
So what did you score in English language?
English language was of course my
hobbyhorse and passion but like I earlier asseverated, my results were
constantly guillotined to my utter chagrin that I had to lapse into a
jeremiad of lachrymoseim for a period of aeon. I would need to check the
result again to be sure of my score.
Do you pray the same way you speak?
God understands all languages, my
brother and I pray to God using any word that pops up. May I posit that
the key points in prayers are your sincerity, purity of heart, walking
within the compass and to what extent are you ready and worthy of
receiving the benediction of the cosmic and the cosmic masters because
as we say in mysticism- “when the students are ready, the masters would
appear.”
Take my words my brother that more than
seventy per cent of humanity don’t know how to pray but that is a matter
for another day.
Do you know that many people don’t take you too seriously when you talk because they think you are not communicating
Why will I be perturbed from ensconcing
myself in the palatable arms of Morpheus because people have deprived
themselves of the cultivation of the regime of the mental magnitude? I
read all the farrago of baloneys and vacuous bunkum from pepper soup
objurgators. The spirit of animadversion remains their fundamental human
right. It also remains an indubitable fact that I get millions and
millions of requests daily from people all over the world requesting for
my verbal mentorship which positive cosmopolitan reactions have
assisted my equipoise and righteous sense of pachydermatous garb. I
cannot put my nose to the grindstone daily and expect to be understood
by those luxuriating in a modus vivendi, verging on pepper souping, goat heading, suyaing, big stouting and isiewulising.
Has a philosophical wag not once pontificated that things of the spirit
are spiritually discerned and that it takes the deep to call the deep?
We will speak more on this matter of critiques and chichi dodo another day.
Why do you pull your trousers up beyond the waist?
Hahahaha….That trousers style is called Yohji Yamamoto.
It was my own audacious statement to remonstrate against the pervasive
tendency of Nigerians especially our youths that took to the practice of
putting on trousers exposing their lower anatomical contours and I will
do it over and over again.
- See more at: http://naijagaga.blogspot.com/2013/09/ive-spent-hour-daily-reading.html#sthash.mtvHicdb.dpuf
You guys need to read this hilarious interview grammarian and current
Chief of Staff to the Edo State Governor, Patrick Obahiagbon granted to Punch. Excerpts below...
Why do you always speak ‘big grammar’?I am not really consensus ad idem with those who opine that my idiolect is advertently obfuscative. No no no, it’s just that I am in my elements when the colloquy has to do with the pax nigeriana of our dreams and one necessarily needs to fulminate against the alcibiadian modus vivendi of our prebendal political class.How did you start speaking in this manner?It all happened when my father brought me a teaser which stated that good orators had ruled the world and you must have to be a feisty orator if you must rule the world. As an impressionable young man, I alacritously threw myself into the whirligig of improving my usage of words by amassing new words on a daily basis.
How do you talk to your wife, children and even your friends?
I relate with my family and friends
very warmly and in an atmosphere of camaraderie, stripped of my
confutational habiliment and gladiatorial homilies. I am a very
peaceful, calm, level-headed and celestially attuned soul personality.
Is this the way you proposed to your wife, speaking high tech grammar?
Of course, the business of the day when
I interfaced with my wife on matters of the heart had to be in plain
Caeser’s language and you can decipher why that had to be so. The matter
in view did not permit itself of sphinxian conundrum.
It’s a long time ago, so I can’t
remember the exact words I used. We had a relationship for ten years
before we got married. We’re looking at close to 20 years ago.
Did you write exams in school in these big words?
I used such words very-very freely in
my exams both at the secondary school and in my university and little
wonder I had the misfortune of my English results being seized
intermittently in my O’ Levels. WAEC released my results for the other
subjects and withheld my English result. This happened for about three
years. Twice, I passed the University Matriculation Examination but I
could not proceed to the University because of my English results that
were not released. At the end of the day, it was released after the
third attempt.
How many dictionaries do you read a day and how often do you read dictionaries?
I have read and still do read a
vaudeville of dictionaries from Websters to Funk and Wagnalls, from
Cambridge to Oxford dictionaries, from Black’s Law Dictionary to Encarta
and from Encyclopedia Britannica to Foreignisms, etcetera. I developed
my corpus of vocabulary by reading omnivorously. I have also spent
nothing less than an hour daily on my dictionary for over twenty years.
So, whereas the dictionary for most people is a mere occasional
reference point, it is for, me a vade-mecum. It may also interest you to
know that there is much to learn from our daily newspapers.
Was English your best subject?
My best subject in secondary school was
government and religion and am sure that I was drawn to religion
because, I now know as a student of Rosicrucian mysticism, that I was a
student of divine light in my last incarnation. As for government, I
just fell in love with the subject due to my early attraction in life to
issues of political-economy.
So what did you score in English language?
English language was of course my
hobbyhorse and passion but like I earlier asseverated, my results were
constantly guillotined to my utter chagrin that I had to lapse into a
jeremiad of lachrymoseim for a period of aeon. I would need to check the
result again to be sure of my score.
Do you pray the same way you speak?
God understands all languages, my
brother and I pray to God using any word that pops up. May I posit that
the key points in prayers are your sincerity, purity of heart, walking
within the compass and to what extent are you ready and worthy of
receiving the benediction of the cosmic and the cosmic masters because
as we say in mysticism- “when the students are ready, the masters would
appear.”
Take my words my brother that more than
seventy per cent of humanity don’t know how to pray but that is a matter
for another day.
Do you know that many people don’t take you too seriously when you talk because they think you are not communicating
Why will I be perturbed from ensconcing
myself in the palatable arms of Morpheus because people have deprived
themselves of the cultivation of the regime of the mental magnitude? I
read all the farrago of baloneys and vacuous bunkum from pepper soup
objurgators. The spirit of animadversion remains their fundamental human
right. It also remains an indubitable fact that I get millions and
millions of requests daily from people all over the world requesting for
my verbal mentorship which positive cosmopolitan reactions have
assisted my equipoise and righteous sense of pachydermatous garb. I
cannot put my nose to the grindstone daily and expect to be understood
by those luxuriating in a modus vivendi, verging on pepper souping, goat heading, suyaing, big stouting and isiewulising.
Has a philosophical wag not once pontificated that things of the spirit
are spiritually discerned and that it takes the deep to call the deep?
We will speak more on this matter of critiques and chichi dodo another day.
Why do you pull your trousers up beyond the waist?
Hahahaha….That trousers style is called Yohji Yamamoto.
It was my own audacious statement to remonstrate against the pervasive
tendency of Nigerians especially our youths that took to the practice of
putting on trousers exposing their lower anatomical contours and I will
do it over and over again.
- See more at: http://naijagaga.blogspot.com/2013/09/ive-spent-hour-daily-reading.html#sthash.mtvHicdb.dpuf
You guys need to read this hilarious interview grammarian and current
Chief of Staff to the Edo State Governor, Patrick Obahiagbon granted to Punch. Excerpts below...
Why do you always speak ‘big grammar’?I am not really consensus ad idem with those who opine that my idiolect is advertently obfuscative. No no no, it’s just that I am in my elements when the colloquy has to do with the pax nigeriana of our dreams and one necessarily needs to fulminate against the alcibiadian modus vivendi of our prebendal political class.How did you start speaking in this manner?It all happened when my father brought me a teaser which stated that good orators had ruled the world and you must have to be a feisty orator if you must rule the world. As an impressionable young man, I alacritously threw myself into the whirligig of improving my usage of words by amassing new words on a daily basis.
How do you talk to your wife, children and even your friends?
I relate with my family and friends
very warmly and in an atmosphere of camaraderie, stripped of my
confutational habiliment and gladiatorial homilies. I am a very
peaceful, calm, level-headed and celestially attuned soul personality.
Is this the way you proposed to your wife, speaking high tech grammar?
Of course, the business of the day when
I interfaced with my wife on matters of the heart had to be in plain
Caeser’s language and you can decipher why that had to be so. The matter
in view did not permit itself of sphinxian conundrum.
It’s a long time ago, so I can’t
remember the exact words I used. We had a relationship for ten years
before we got married. We’re looking at close to 20 years ago.
Did you write exams in school in these big words?
I used such words very-very freely in
my exams both at the secondary school and in my university and little
wonder I had the misfortune of my English results being seized
intermittently in my O’ Levels. WAEC released my results for the other
subjects and withheld my English result. This happened for about three
years. Twice, I passed the University Matriculation Examination but I
could not proceed to the University because of my English results that
were not released. At the end of the day, it was released after the
third attempt.
How many dictionaries do you read a day and how often do you read dictionaries?
I have read and still do read a
vaudeville of dictionaries from Websters to Funk and Wagnalls, from
Cambridge to Oxford dictionaries, from Black’s Law Dictionary to Encarta
and from Encyclopedia Britannica to Foreignisms, etcetera. I developed
my corpus of vocabulary by reading omnivorously. I have also spent
nothing less than an hour daily on my dictionary for over twenty years.
So, whereas the dictionary for most people is a mere occasional
reference point, it is for, me a vade-mecum. It may also interest you to
know that there is much to learn from our daily newspapers.
Was English your best subject?
My best subject in secondary school was
government and religion and am sure that I was drawn to religion
because, I now know as a student of Rosicrucian mysticism, that I was a
student of divine light in my last incarnation. As for government, I
just fell in love with the subject due to my early attraction in life to
issues of political-economy.
So what did you score in English language?
English language was of course my
hobbyhorse and passion but like I earlier asseverated, my results were
constantly guillotined to my utter chagrin that I had to lapse into a
jeremiad of lachrymoseim for a period of aeon. I would need to check the
result again to be sure of my score.
Do you pray the same way you speak?
God understands all languages, my
brother and I pray to God using any word that pops up. May I posit that
the key points in prayers are your sincerity, purity of heart, walking
within the compass and to what extent are you ready and worthy of
receiving the benediction of the cosmic and the cosmic masters because
as we say in mysticism- “when the students are ready, the masters would
appear.”
Take my words my brother that more than
seventy per cent of humanity don’t know how to pray but that is a matter
for another day.
Do you know that many people don’t take you too seriously when you talk because they think you are not communicating
Why will I be perturbed from ensconcing
myself in the palatable arms of Morpheus because people have deprived
themselves of the cultivation of the regime of the mental magnitude? I
read all the farrago of baloneys and vacuous bunkum from pepper soup
objurgators. The spirit of animadversion remains their fundamental human
right. It also remains an indubitable fact that I get millions and
millions of requests daily from people all over the world requesting for
my verbal mentorship which positive cosmopolitan reactions have
assisted my equipoise and righteous sense of pachydermatous garb. I
cannot put my nose to the grindstone daily and expect to be understood
by those luxuriating in a modus vivendi, verging on pepper souping, goat heading, suyaing, big stouting and isiewulising.
Has a philosophical wag not once pontificated that things of the spirit
are spiritually discerned and that it takes the deep to call the deep?
We will speak more on this matter of critiques and chichi dodo another day.
Why do you pull your trousers up beyond the waist?
Hahahaha….That trousers style is called Yohji Yamamoto.
It was my own audacious statement to remonstrate against the pervasive
tendency of Nigerians especially our youths that took to the practice of
putting on trousers exposing their lower anatomical contours and I will
do it over and over again.
- See more at: http://naijagaga.blogspot.com/2013/09/ive-spent-hour-daily-reading.html#sthash.mtvHicdb.dpuf
