O My Gosh! Yoruba Is Two Dangerous. Even Three Dangerous!

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As I was Saying, I am not Agbara Ojo who…

Agbara what?! Agbara who do or does what?

Agbara Ojo. No, I’m not. I’m not agbara ojo who…

Wait again! Are you kidney me?  How do you mean and who is arguing with you over whether you are Agbara Ojo or Agbara Ajayi or Power Mike?

Listen carefully and be very  very careful with Yoruba and any other tonal language where one word may mean or refer to different things at the same time like in this current debacle over OJO which means or refers to different things.

And what are these your things?

Thank you, that’s how we know things by asking. OJO may mean or refer to name of a person (Mr. Ojo), Coward or Cowardice, Day (of the week), name of a place (like in Ojo Cantonment in Lagos) and it may also refer to precipitation, an element of weather…

That should be Rain, now!

Of course, yes.

So which one get power with the name you say is not yours!

When did I mention POWER inside any name?

Ah! But that’s what you said at the beginning that your name no be POWER of wharrrever your OJO means.

That’s exactly what I’m talking about. Yoruba is dangerously difficult to learn just as in any other tonal language where ADA, beautiful Igbo name may refer to CUTLASS in Yoruba. That’s why speech medium is almost 100% best way to study and understand language in context.

So which one is this your “My name is not Agbara Ojo”? How do you mean? What are you? Who are you gan gan gan? Who are you ‘re’ as Abami Eda used before we baled out?

I was actually going to say I’m not rain flood water that sweeps through the town and doesn’t have the courtesy of passing by the king’s palace  and paying homage to the king, kabiyesi, Olu Aiye, the “Second Calabash to Olodumare, Eleni Ateeka, Oba Aterere Kariaiye…” 

Which king? Which Atere? Or King Atare? 

Just “tanda gidigba” there and be asking me “which king?”, which Fatai? Which Atari? Which Atare and whichever. I know say e don tey since you all left your “orile obodo “before you come tear arms and legs to do asaba (seeking refuge) here in OnodoObodo Oyibo. Na you sabi.

TO BE CONCLUDED.