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 ...
i have been following up this since a friend told me about it. guy kudos. i love when you write about serious tings with some humour. i read about the sexual boost and the STD known as PID. i believe if you write more on health the way you write now. people will read you very well. please keep writing. in case you are wondering the friend that introduced this blog to me, name is Albert from daystar centre , Lagos
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DeleteOk, anti rape,sex etc it's kinda strange to me because how would u know when u will be raped in order to put it on or would u tell the rapist to wait so u can put on the condom I don't understand? And reading how it works in the body hmmmm that's dangerous plus the fact that the condom allows penetration before work that means it ain't good for virgins too so what really does it protect?(only d sexual motion before ejaculation) anyway am yet to see any reason to support this rape axe but it's a wonderful educational topic and am glad people r actually thinking of how best to stop rape.
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