<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Nigerian academics seek to elevate humble Pidgin</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">By Yinka Ibukun</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">LAGOS | Mon Sep 20, 2010 4:59pm BST</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">UK</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">(Reuters Life!) - It may share many of its words and basic grammar with English, but a perplexed look descends across the face of most newcomers to Nigeria the first time they are addressed in Pidgin.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">"How you dey?" comes the question, or "How body?" (both meaning "how are you?")</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">"I dey fine" is the correct response, or, if you're in a less upbeat mood, "body dey inside cloth", meaning "I'm coping/making do with the situation," or literally "I'm still wearing clothes."</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
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