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[ { "role": "user", "content": "ehn! You see… that’s the problem with our education system!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "If, if, if, errm these strikes now, like, when I was in hundred level, by the time, by this time hundred level, I was already resuming second semester; we’ve already started second semester. So, by July, we were done with second semester. So, which means by July, if those strike didn’t occur, by July, I should be graduating. But it’s different now." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Okay! I pray that you graduate. That no strike will hold you back" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "No… no strike, no strike. We pray almost every day. Per Sunday’s special prayer" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Thank you so much for giving me your time." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Thank you ma!" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I was like,.. I want to seriously record it" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ah! Omo we don forget wetin we dey talk just now sef" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "just continue wetin you dey talk abeg" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Mey we continue?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "abeg continue, I can even follow una go, come meh we dey go jareh" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "ehn… meh we dey, meh we dey waka dey go ehn nah no problem. it will be, it will be better that way" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "mey we dey go jareh" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "But languages…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "so… are you from here?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "hmmmm… not really, onwa" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "from where?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "onwa" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ah Ah! Where is onwa?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Still in Edo State" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "awwwww in Edo State and you are from here?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "E Edo State, yeah" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Edo State too? Okay and eh you people speak eh pidgin so well there? Seriously" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "So well" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Okay that’s lovely" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "mama that one eh," } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "the thing no gree click o" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "e no just, e no just enter again" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "As in eh" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "why e no enter nah, eh wetin come happen?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Like say you just dey follow us for back ehen" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "ehen you for" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "dey record am, e for even good" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "you for deydey record am we for no even know say you dey record am sef ehen, you for just dey record am quietly quietly" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "ehnnn but, but if I, if I dey follow una like that una go think ah ahn; this one weydey follow me like that wetin come happen" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "ehen, no pro_BLem, after wey you don record am ehen, you just tell us ehn, o boy we been record una ehen" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Bros, how far?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "_ hey how e be bros?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "wetin dey happen naw?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "bros nothing much o, we just still dey nah" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "no be lie nah, no be lie. Nna which side you dey go?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Me? I just dey excort you" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "ah ahn!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "make I go see person there" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "na excursion you dey do so?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "ehn nna na excurse, na my guy nah, e just wan see me off nah" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "eh how come e be like say una no dey together, this one you dey excort am?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "no" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "no, no, no, no, no, no, no." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You are separate" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "yes" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "yeah" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "okay. Errm, which level are you?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "3" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "300 hundred and you?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "4" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "400 hundred! Ohooo! Graduation level. Which subject?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Errrm… Geology" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Geology! Oh my God! You want to work in Oil Company eh?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "yeah" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "this boy! In the next two years…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "yes nah" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "look for this boy" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ah, sure, sure" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This boy will be one big boy" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "save my number o" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "well well" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ah ahn!Abeg!" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I’ve saved the number o" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Give me the num…ber! Abeg!" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I’ve saved the number" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I wan save the number abeg! Ah, no forget give me that number o" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "No wahala" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Because I know say the next time I go ask of this boy, this boy be one big boy for shell…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes nah!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "…like this:" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Sure, sure, sure!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "ah ahn!" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Is a must nah" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Eh…yah!" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Na there we dey ooo" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "That’s lovely!" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "it’s everybody’s dream, oil Company." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "if it’s not Oil Company, it’s nothing" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "And you, what are you studying?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Survey" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Survey! Survey!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "yeah" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Seriously? What are you surveying? Which area of survey? As in…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Land…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh! Land Survey!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Agro…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ohhhhhh! Okay! That’s lovely!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I will like to turn back from here o. you too much nah" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "mama don do am" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Mama you fit, you fit follow am dey go back" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "bye bye Oya come meh I follow you go back. Where you dey go so sef?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Back" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Back, this way or this way?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This way" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Okay! See boys dey here dey speak pidgin eh, dey blow the thing eh!" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "But if you come like tell them say okay! idey record am;mtchew, the… dem go com dey conscious of speaking it." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Eh…eh! That is what has been happening to me o. Anybody I approach, I will say at least I’m doing research, this and that, they will be so conscious of whatever they are saying" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "yeah" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "But if you just record it without their knowledge, you will just see them in their natural form. but it’s so difficult to record without their knowledge." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yeah, yeah!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "So difficult. You can only do it if you get a student that is in their midst but no student has agreed to help me. I don’t know if you will help me." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Errm, like how do you want it?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "what I want? Anything! I just want to get students talk in their natural form. You understand? And it can only happen when a student helps me. Like, you are in the, you are one of them now. You just come in their midst and put on your recording, do you understand? That way you can get me just natural conversation, you understand?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Like maybe, football argument or?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Anything…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "But in pidgin" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "ust anything. Not only in pidgin. Just natural way you people talk. They mix English and pidgin. Just let me have it the natural way it is, don’t be conscious of it , the language, just give me how the discussion is. You understand? Please, I will be so happy if you help me." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "ehn… that means, I will have to give you…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Porter jam me when, when we dey enter… Block B; na im Porter see us. When Porter, come stand, come say we go enter man o war this thing, Porter just waka comot. Wetin the Porter wan talk? On a norm sef, red cross suppose know say girls dey enter.. dem dey enter their room." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "dem dey carry girls enter?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "on a steady every every… no be say na one… that time wey Anonymous dey here sef.. I know say people wey dey come here .. Anonymous.. eeh.. that guy na bloody bloody.. that guy eeh… mtcheew… that’s ..I know how many fresher him don collect.. him and elder, their two.. Elder no dey Red cross again." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Entertainer.. one guy say na entertainer.. haha.." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "no.. the thing be say.." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "na red cross" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "no.. he dey shape am easily…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "na red cross e dey.." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I never see the guy go for any of their red cross thing before" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "ahah—how many ok.. their investiture, how many people dey invest here? Their investisure, Dave, no be me and you stand sit down for there dey look them. How many people invest? They no reach twelve.." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "wey invest for their investisure.." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "serious?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I come see one girl.. the girl come say…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "all the people wey them recruit" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I come ask one girl.. she come say.. she be red cross, she come say she dey part of them. I come say why she no dey? She now said.. mere looking at it.. that people she recruited with are not even there. I come dey ask, say which kind.." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "dem reach 40 or 50 people nah" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "mtcheew… them recruit eeh. Na short course.. their investisure na f9" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Anonymous use two months of IT names.. Oma bus come carry officers.. come dey tell me say na only twelve people.. na wa o.. one thing be say dem get members, but dem no get person wey dey come outside.. dem get members like people wey just say.. ah.. make I just join.. mah just join…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Dem get plenty people wey…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "dem get members…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "But dem no get active officers" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "… members wey dem get..i get another person wey dey tell me.. how many persons dem dey see." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "We dey call our own IT Emoko. But dem dey call their own bastards.. … even that name alone dey chase person comot" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "you no see that mugu.. that mugu wey run comot like that...." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "who?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "one slim guy like that…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "wetin you come go do am?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "he come go meet Anonymous.. he jam Anonymous nah.. I no know say.. me sef no know say Anonymous get hot head.. na for our front.. for this cavat for here.." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "ehen.." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Na me Anonymous and Anonymous. We come charge the guy.. we come be like, oya Dj.. the guy come dey explain something give Anonymous. Anonymous come dey ask am say why he no come for one thing like that.. \"who gave you form to fill\"?.... \"Did you tell Anonymous that you are not coming\"? He say ehen... He say oya.. release your handset.. I say eeh.. Anonymous come talk say.. collect collect everything.. Mtcheew.. I no know say that one get hot head.. I still dey talk am since last year.. I no dey see Anonymous again." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I see am o.." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I know am o." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I no dey see am o.. I see am when he first newly.. when school newly start" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I still see am this week sef.. I still see am this week" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I never see Anonymous since I come here.. since then, I never see ANONY. But day don dey dark.. make I come dey go house" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "oya come make we dey go.. make we reach o.." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I no dey enter.." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "you go stay for house, I go go bring your your phone" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I dey o, how your side nah? You no go church today o" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I go church nah" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Where you from dey come from?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Good evening!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Good evening!" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I go shop" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Wetin you go do for there?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Why you dey always..." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Wetin you hold for here? Wetin be this?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ehn, I go collect soup come" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You go collect soup with wetin? Wetin you want use chop am?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Na eba nah, make I come your room nah, abeg!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Eh!" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Make I come your room" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "How far you… Why you dey do like that nah?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Na because nah …" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Come! Wait nah! Just like that?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Give me money. na money I want. Dash me money abegi!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Is it soup that is in this thing?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Seriously?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I’m serious nah" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It’s not true" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I don tell you, na soup nah!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Wait, the soup you cooked in your room?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "In somebody’s room. One of my cousin’s place, he stays in Ofoma" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "And gave you this little one? So when you get there you buy only...garri" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I will not even buy garri sef. I will look for someone who will give me" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Why naw?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "That's life" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Is it that you are broke now?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Eh ... something like that" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Even if you give a student hundred thousand while coming to school, he always get broke" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "But is it the end of the term?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "No, no, it's mid semester" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "How come you are broke at the middle of the semester" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It's mid semester naw, exam is next month." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Seriously it's mid semester, 2/3 of the semester is gone" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Which room you dey stay naw?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "...Block A, ..." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I go come visit you" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "...I no understand you" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Don't worry, I go come visit you. We have a witness here" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Eheh" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Let me see what I've got, oh two minutes" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "…They are behaving wicked, they know what they are doing" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "They know what they are doing" } ]