English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
ENGLISH WORDS WITH NEW MEANINGS IN NIGERIA
The man didn’t have any good point; he kept saying ~jargons~ (Popular Nigerian English).
The man didn’t have any good point; he kept saying *gibberish* (Standard English).
If you describe someone’s words or ideas as gibberish, you mean that they do not make any sense.
In Standard English, you use jargon to refer to words and expressions that are used in special or technical ways by particular groups of people, often making the language difficult to understand. Note also that the word does not attract the plural marker s:
I don’t understand the speaker’s political *jargon*. ✅
Some ~touts~ were roaming the street last night (Popular Nigerian English).
Some *louts* were roaming the street last night (Standard English).
If you describe someone as a lout, you are critical of them because they behave in an impolite or aggressive way.
In Standard English, a tout is someone who sells things such as tickets unofficially, usually at prices which are higher than the official ones:
I hate to get tickets from *touts*. ✅
GAB
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