Nowadays, relationships are increasingly crossing language divides. As people mix more and more, the chemical called love reacts before finding out what language those involved are speaking.
In the age of social media, this is more prominent, as primordial considerations feature less and less, because of the partial anonymity offered by keyboards. Social media allows one to be more cosmopolitan or be more carefree, depending on how you choose to see it. Thus, we easily find ourselves in relationships across linguistic boundaries.
Many Nigerians are now in ‘linguistically dissonant’ relationships (if I can say that without getting arrested by language police). Even when we enter into relationships from seemingly the same geographical locales, the linguistic diversity of Nigeria still makes us unable to communicate in one language. You often have to adopt a third language, which often leaves your communication open to interception by enemy forces.
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