#6 Do you speak Kmtyw? How to say Òrìṣà!-gctid232153

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sI_zCNB2v0

[Kwadwo Tòkunbọ̀]

Appreciate it.  The language will not be anglicized...

------------------------------------------
Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own. - Dr. Wade Nobles

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Kò tọ́pẹ́

Sent from my Uhuru Note using Abibitumi Kasa mobile app

[Nataki]

Meda ase. This video is awesome!

Sent from my SM-J700T using Abibitumi Kasa mobile app

[Kwadwo Tòkunbọ̀]

Ok I have a request for the next segment.  My son's girlfriend 1st generation from Ghana here in amerikkka. Her name in Nana. As s matter of fact all of her siblings have Nana as their name.  Every time some one says her name they pronounce it low/low instead of low/high.  Then he says that it's pronounced low/low for females and low/high for her brothers.  I tried to explain that is inaccurate. That the language is tonal and if you pronounce a word wrong it may change the meaning.   lol they don't believe a brotha.  "They are from Ghana. Her mom gave her that name (I explained even that is strange. Mother named all her children and not the elder?).  

I said well even if they say that is her name the pronunciation is wrong and it may mean some else.

So hence my request.  Lol

------------------------------------------
Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own. - Dr. Wade Nobles

[Kwadwo Tòkunbọ̀]

kevlew;232224 wrote: Ok I have a request for the next segment.  My son's girlfriend 1st generation from Ghana here in amerikkka. Her name in Nana. As s matter of fact all of her siblings have Nana as their name.  Every time some one says her name they pronounce it low/low instead of high/low.   Then he says that it's pronounced low/low for females and high/low for her brothers.  I tried to explain that is inaccurate. That the language is tonal and if you pronounce a word wrong it may change the meaning.   lol they don't believe a brotha.  "They are from Ghana. Her mom gave her that name (I explained even that is strange. Mother named all her children and not the elder?).  

I said well even if they say that is her name the pronunciation is wrong and it may mean some else.

So hence my request.  Lol

------------------------------------------
Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own. - Dr. Wade Nobles

Please disregard I found the episode with nana explained.

------------------------------------------
Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own. - Dr. Wade Nobles

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Listen to the tones here: Nàná Yàá
Obviously a female: https://youtu.be/B9h1s5Qwvgk?t=41
and here: https://youtu.be/lwLzMIH8hCU?t=9
You'll never win that argument because they will refuse to acknowledge or admit that they are alienated Kmtyws because that would mean that they would have to do something about it.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taZe3H720qY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

More low to high for female names.

[Kwadwo Tòkunbọ̀]

Obadele Kambon;232233 wrote: Listen to the tones here: Nàná Yàá
Obviously a female: https://youtu.be/B9h1s5Qwvgk?t=41
and here: https://youtu.be/lwLzMIH8hCU?t=9
You'll never win that argument because they will refuse to acknowledge or admit that they are alienated Kmtyws because that would mean that they would have to do something about it.

Meda wo ase.  I will just keep calling her by the correct pronunciation.  

ɔba
Nua

Two more examples given....I am done!

------------------------------------------
Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own. - Dr. Wade Nobles

[Agya Yaw]

kevlew;232224 wrote: Ok I have a request for the next segment.  My son's girlfriend 1st generation from Ghana here in amerikkka. Her name in Nana. As s matter of fact all of her siblings have Nana as their name.  Every time some one says her name they pronounce it low/low instead of low/high.  Then he says that it's pronounced low/low for females and low/high for her brothers.  I tried to explain that is inaccurate. That the language is tonal and if you pronounce a word wrong it may change the meaning.   lol they don't believe a brotha.  "They are from Ghana. Her mom gave her that name (I explained even that is strange. Mother named all her children and not the elder?).  

I said well even if they say that is her name the pronunciation is wrong and it may mean some else.

So hence my request.  Lol

------------------------------------------
Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own. - Dr. Wade Nobles

You will find as you encounter "native speakers" they will not allow you to correct them, "as they have been speaking it since birth. You can't correct me when you have been speaking it a year and change." The spelling aspect is even worse. Most admit they can't spell or read though in my experience.

[Agya Yaw]

Obadele Kambon;232153 wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sI_zCNB2v0

Meda ase papapapapa. Keep'em them coming!

[Agya Yaw]

Obadele Kambon;232233 wrote: Listen to the tones here: Nàná Yàá
Obviously a female: https://youtu.be/B9h1s5Qwvgk?t=41
and here: https://youtu.be/lwLzMIH8hCU?t=9
You'll never win that argument because they will refuse to acknowledge or admit that they are alienated Kmtyws because that would mean that they would have to do something about it.

Totally off topic. I believe I have seen this before with interviewee and interviewer in Ghana. Why are they sitting so far apart...lol. The interviewee can clearly sit on the other side of the couch. I always think someone else will join them and it never happens....lol. Is this some etiquette thing :D:D.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Agya Yaw;232241 wrote: Totally off topic. I believe I have seen this before with interviewee and interviewer in Ghana. Why are they sitting so far apart...lol. The interviewee can clearly sit on the other side of the couch. I always think someone else will join them and it never happens....lol. Is this some etiquette thing :D:D.

I never thought about or noticed that. I guess I'd have to ask someone in the industry here for the rationale. There's no traditional law or protocol for TV set-ups. I had a different configuration when I was on this show, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl0d2xf48Nk