Gist & Gossip
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MICROSOFT OFFICE SOFTWARE IN NIGERIAN LANGUAGES |
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The
computer software giant Microsoft recently translated their popular
Office software into a language very few people know exists. It
is called New Norwegian, or Nynorsk, and it is Norway's
second official language. |
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| Now to our dear country at least we too get three 'unofficial languages' i.e. Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo and considering our population and again being the giant albeit 'the sleeping giant' of Africa we too fit fight Microsoft to translate their software to our languages so that our illiterate brothers and sisters no go get excuse for not knowing how to use computers especially those wey dey work for our various state secretariats wey be stark illiterates but still get the job at the expense of graduates becos the governor na the son of their 'brother's uncle mother aunty nephew niece' for village. At least we get BBC Hausa Services so we dey beg oga Bill Gates to please look our side o. | ||
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Also, it will help most of our public office holders most of whom are vulcanizers, carpenters, mechanics and so on before dem become councilors, local government chairmen, house of assembly speakers and senators to know say another world dey wey dem dey call the computer world and that the world is one global village (WWW- World Wide Web) |
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