How to say I Luv U in Nigeria
- added October 10, 2008
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- TravG73
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It begins: "I swear, I will make sure I give you HIV..."
But it's not an abusive threat, it's a "romantic" text message copied from a book on sale all over Nigeria that professes to give young people the words they need to court the woman or man of their dreams.
"H is for Happiness and joy forever with an I: Incomparable love that will never V: Vanish until death do us part. I love you," the message concludes.
The book, called "Touching the heart through unforgettable text messages (vol.2)" is one of several on sale in markets around the country that give suggestions to tongue-tied young lovers.
Nigerians are compulsive text senders.
Many men complain that women send them "hot" text messages, but all they really want is money, while women say they are pestered by men sending "romantic" texts when all their suitors really want is sex.
But the book's author, 33-year-old entrepreneur Femi Emmanuel, says he writes text messages for people who are too busy, or illiterate, to properly express what is in their hearts.
He is not married but says he send "special" text messages to his girlfriend - original ones, not out of his books.
The sale of all four volumes has been such a success he has bought a car with the proceeds.
"People have really embraced the mobile phone here in Nigeria, but they may not be smart enough to know what to say in these kind of situations, or maybe they're too busy, running an office or whatever," he said.
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"Text messages for people who are too busy, or illiterate, to properly express what is in their hearts"?
I think there's nothing wrong with abbreviations, but something like this is pretty tasteless.
Perhaps it's really just a clash of cultures and I'm missing the point... but if I got one of these texts I'd be really disturbed and put off by the person who sent it.
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Nigerian Yoruba here....havent been in years...I'd know that if I wasn't so broke. Gosh I wish plane tickets weren't so expensive.
As for the text yeah I'd be freaked out like "uh thanks but no thanks" ....
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maybe that nice lady from his country who keeps wanting to give me millions of dollars can give him some.
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What the hell? This reminds me of a certain Monty Python sketch, but I cannot believe someone would actually go ahead and try to make money with something like this! Stupid!
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- JanaPokana
- 1 month ago
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if you think this is weird, I just read there is a web site for this lady to get donations from people to help get her cat a sex change operation. Seems the cat is unhappy in its body and the psychic told the owner it was a male in a female's body.
I did not make that up as I do not have that kind of imagination.
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"I swear, I will make sure I give you HIV..."
hahaha, they use this as a pickup line? No wonder africans are dying of AIDS. Uhm, tasteless really...
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hmm?
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Wowww! I really don't know...
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Of all places, send a whole lot of love to Nigeria.
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That's really obscure. Bringing up the idea of HIV right off the back to someone in your interest doesn't seem like the most romantic thing in the world...
Unless it's seem as some kind of wierd joke? I guess people who aren't in Nigeria won't necessarily ever get an idea of the stigma HIV has there -- if any stigma at all.
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People joke like that where i'm from. I think you're taking it a little too seriously. AIDs is a serious problem here and I guess making light of a situation can make things a little easier to take.
Just my take on it, could be wrong.
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- wierdobeardo
- 1 month ago
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thats creative...
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This is one sided.
If you want to writte about Nigerian authors why didn't you start with Chinua Achebe? That's why Americans get a distorted view of Nigeria and the rest of Africa at large. Sorry! This is not worth my HIV.-
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- Ami_ka_Lanya
- 1 month ago
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