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NO Nigerian Language Has A Literal Translation For “I Am Sorry”! by Olayemie(m): 10:03pm On Nov 06, 2013 |
Last week in a bus I boarded, a woman after being told by the conductor to “Abeg enter with your change o, i nor get change at all at all o. Na beg i dey beg o!”, entered and gave the conductor a thousand Naira note. Quite frankly I have never seen a Lagos bus conductor plead so much.The conductor berated the woman vituperatively for ignoring is plea. All the woman could say was; “Abeg nor vex”. It occurred to me that “Abeg nor vex” is not an apology, but an appeal to the offended party not to escalate the matter. That is when I discovered that possibly, NO Nigerian language has a sentence that can be literally translated into “i am sorry”.The three major languages attest to this discovery. Hausa: Yakuri (take patience) Yoruba: Ma binu (don’t get angry) Igbo: Eweliwe (don’t get angry) Ibibio (my dialect): Ku yat esit (don’t get angry) Can i conclude with this that NO Nigerian Language has a literal translation for “I am sorry”? How do you say “I am sorry” in your dialect and does it literally translate? |
Re: NO Nigerian Language Has A Literal Translation For “I Am Sorry”! by sylvar02(m): 10:17pm On Nov 06, 2013 |
Lemme try it |
Re: NO Nigerian Language Has A Literal Translation For “I Am Sorry”! by Emmyk(m): 1:25am On Nov 07, 2013 |
Mo sorry. . You are right. Op. |
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