Monday, February 29, 2016
What do you do to an ice-cream?
a. suck it
b. drink it
c. lick it
d. eat it
CAUTION: An English man will tell you that you eat an ice-cream, but what you find applicable in our native languages are "suck", "drink" and "lick".
A Yoruba man will tell you: "mo fe mu ice-cream."
Translation: I want to drink ice-cream.
In Igbo, Hausa and other native languages too, you are either sucking, drinking or licking an ice-cream; where as, that's not the case with English.
You now see how much of blunder you commit when you directly translate your native language into English?
Listen, please! In English, you don't "suck", "drink" or "lick" an ice-cream; rather, you "EAT" an ice-cream.
That's English for you!
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