{"id":354,"date":"2018-11-19T11:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/?p=354"},"modified":"2018-11-19T11:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:24:30","slug":"intagram-jenifas-english-and-deletion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/intagram-jenifas-english-and-deletion\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018INTAGRAM\u2019: JENIFA\u2019S ENGLISH AND DELETION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018INTAGRAM\u2019: JENIFA\u2019S ENGLISH AND DELETION <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by Oriloye Saheedah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a comprehensive study of what this series is about, kindly read <a href=\"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/2018\/11\/14\/out-at-last-linguistics-analysis-of-jenifas-english\/\">OUT AT LAST: LINGUISTICS ANALYSIS OF JENIFA\u2019S ENGLISH<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and to understand this present discussion, read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/2018\/11\/16\/jenifas-english-under-phonological-scrutiny\/\">JENIFA\u2019S ENGLISH UNDER PHONOLOGICAL SCRUTINY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s discuss deletion as a phonological process and how Jenifa rocked it. Just like you delete Whatsapp messages, unwanted contacts and all, you can also <strong>delete segments<\/strong>, that is, sounds in words, while speaking. When the deleted sound is a consonant, it is called deletion but the deletion of vowels is technically <strong>elision.<\/strong> This phenomenon is evident in a language like Yoruba as evident in:<\/p>\n<p>Gbe\u0323\u0301gi for gbe\u0301 <strong>i<\/strong>gi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (carry wood)<\/p>\n<p>Biodun for <strong>A<\/strong>biodun \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (name)<\/p>\n<p>Jo\u0323ke\u0323 for <strong>A<\/strong>jo\u0323ke\u0323\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (name)<\/p>\n<p>Gba\u0301le\u0323\u0300 for gba\u0301 <strong>i<\/strong>le\u0323\u0300\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (sweep floor)<\/p>\n<p>Je\u0323\u0300ba\u0300 for je\u0323 <strong>e\u0323\u0300<\/strong>ba\u0300 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (eat e\u0323\u0300ba\u0300)<\/p>\n<p>The same phenomenon of course, occurs in English, but it isn\u2019t as common as in Yoruba language.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers of English, for example, say [pli:s] instead of [p\u0259li:s] while pronouncing the word \u2018police\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Sisi Jenifa will not stop deploying this phonological process as she always ask people to <em>\u2018resket\u2019<\/em> (instead of ri<strong>s<\/strong>pekt) <em>diasef<\/em>, preach about <em>\u2018abstines\u2019<\/em> (instead of \u2018abstine<strong>n<\/strong>ce) and while the world prefers in<strong>s<\/strong>tagram, Jeni treasures <em>intagram! <\/em>Kindly read the past series:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/2018\/11\/16\/bad-shaid-jenifas-english-and-de-affrication\/\">\u2018BAD SHAID\u2019: JENIFA\u2019S ENGLISH AND DE-AFFRICATION<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you like this post, kindly share and await upcoming posts in this series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018INTAGRAM\u2019: JENIFA\u2019S ENGLISH AND DELETION by Oriloye Saheedah For a comprehensive study of what this series is about, kindly read OUT AT LAST: LINGUISTICS ANALYSIS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[179,196,2],"tags":[208,206,141,207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}