Over time, slangs have performed important roles in songs, motion pictures, different artistic endeavors and each day conversations.
Outlined by Cambridge Dictionary as ‘very casual language that’s normally spoken moderately than written, used particularly by specific teams of individuals’, slangs are sometimes utilized by individuals to press house their factors or emphasise their arguments.
On many events, such slangs have additionally made their option to works of arts and even mainstream lingo.
With barely days into 2024, a slang— No Gree for Anyone— has already gone viral; with many saying that it’s a 12 months to face agency by one’s convictions and never simply give in to others.
Although it isn’t a brand new slang, some individuals have traced its resurgence to a gospel track titled, ‘I No Go Gree’, by Sister Agatha Moses in her album entitled, ‘Thanks’.
Thus far, there have been a number of memes and posts to emphasize the slang on social media, together with footage of a tricycle dragging the suitable of means with a heavy-duty automobile; and one purportedly exhibiting a pupil pointing to a specific reply on the board, whereas the lecturer pointed at one other reply.
In a testomony to its reputation, the slang already has a brand, and has been inscribed on garments and different gadgets.
An Igbo variant of the slang, ‘Kwechiri’, has additionally been making waves on social media.
Different slangs which have ‘reigned’ in latest occasions and have been used extensively on and off the Web embody ‘Dey Play’, ‘No Proof’, ‘E don Solid’, ‘Sapa’, ‘E Choke’, and ‘Japa’.