[Ads-l] premonition;several

[Wilson Gray]

Well, since his parents are not black Americans, but are African-Americans
from Nigeria, it's possible that this peculiar use of "several" is a
feature of Nigerian English.

Youneverknow.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 8:19 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "Premonition" = 'expectation,' but "several" is more interesting:
>
> Fox Sports analyst, former NFL linebacker, University of Texas grad
> Emmanuel Acho (b. 1990) on CNN:
>
> "White people grow up under some premonition that black people are
> dangerous or may be thugs or violent. Black people, we are also conditioned
> based on society that all white people might be racist, right? Several
> black people were conditioned that all white people might be the oppressor.
> And I actually think it's a little closer to the middle, right? Several
> black people are just black, and white people are just white."
>
> "Several" = 'an unspecified number of; many.'
>
> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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