My beautiful KIB students, today, you will be happy learning the correct way to express yourselves. Nigerians have a way of changing typical English expressions to suit them. Someone still had to argue with me that the English expression 'Better the devil you know than the devil you don't " is so wrong and does not make sense. He opines that angel should be there. He forgets that English can be quite illogical to our Nigerian minds. Lol. People say things like. 'He has not even proposed talk more of walking down the aisle with me' 'He does not have a car, talk less a house" Well these two expressions or collocations are not common in British and American English. Here are the universal conventional English collocations for Nigerian English's 'Talk more of' and 'Talk less of', #LetAlone 'Let alone' is used to indicate that something is far less likely or suitable than something else already mentioned. E.g ...
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ReplyDeletethanks ifey for the the new expression.
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