Not quite long? Can food taste sweet? The mistake we make when pronouncing 'bona fide'

Good morning beautiful earthlings.

I've got another surprise for you today.  If you think that the grammatical blunders we are used to here in Nigeria are finished,  think again. I haven't even gone half way yet.  And as the days go by,  I always stumble upon something I never knew before.

Yesterday I wrote  my 4th poem centred  on Child abuse and rape.  It's obvious  many people aren't keen at understanding poetry.  The truth is,  that's where people get to express themselves more with  tons of imageries and metaphors. I may start a class soon where we can discuss literary devices for literary appreciation.

Devices  that can give you poetry and your prose the soul that it needs.

Anyway,  without further ado, lets get down  to brass tacks.

You don't  say
I don't take him serious

Say
I don't take him seriously.

Serious is an adjective while seriously is an adverb.

The use of 'not quite long'  to show the brevity of time is wrong.

1. It hasn't been quite long he left

2. After getting a job, not quite long,  he bought a car.

These  two sentences are faulty.

'Not quite' means not completely or entirely.

'Not quite long' means not completely long.

Lets substitute it in sentence 1.

It hasn't been completely long he left.

Please you need to be specific about  the entity that is long. That entity we talk about  is time.

2. It hasn't  been a long while since he left. (correct )

Some people say the food is tasteful. Well it is not correct.  You say the food is tasty or delicious.

Then, the egusi soup is sweet?  LOL. 

When you say something is sweet,  it means the thing tastes like sugar.

Whoever cooks  egusi that is sweet  needs to be incarcerated and sentenced to 5 years of culinary correction. By the way,  plantain and potatoes can be sweet. Anything that taste like sugar is basically sweet.

Igbo brothers..
Ofe na-ato uto  doesnt mean soup is sweet, rather it means soup  is delicious.

Finally on pronunciation,  lets look at the word
Bona fide.

It is correctly pronounced as
/bow-na-faidi/

/bəʊnə ˈfaɪdi/

Americans alternatively say
/bow-na-faid/

The class with King Ifey is done and dusted.  I am going to meet Nkurunziza where ever he is.  We need to talk.

*walks out of the class and peeps through the window*

Um,  I have an assignment.
Between on the queue and in the queue, which is correct?

Have a spectacular day and don't forget to share what you have learnt today with your friends.
Don't forget to read my poem..

Toodles