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Are you farmiliar with these forms of salutations? They are Aphekhian vocabularies:
SALUTATION/ MEANING
Ame di? (Welcome) - Have you come in good fate?
Ame nyong? (Good bye) - Have you finally escaped? (As in a hunted animal): Wise people usually give the retort "Sanga sung", meaning "walk slowly " or "take a slow pace".
Ame di ca? ("America"/ An enquiry) - Have you finally escaped?
Tie do (Well done/ Laziness/ Redundancy spirit/ "Sitdon look") - Make sure you sit down there and don't escape?
Ka di (Garri/Make sure you return however far you go: the former is a meal of disaster that means "deportation spirit")
Da do (A Salutation for someone standing) - Happy standing/ While away your time standing.
Na do (A Salutation for someone lying) - Happy sleeping/ Keep sleeping. A laziness spirit.)
De do (A Salutation for someone sleeping) - Just be sleeping. Obviously, salutation just got empirical here.
Someone called this type of salutations: "Coming-Going?", which are akin with the principles of "the parable of the tied cow."
Listen to the following Aphekhian and English creole registers, which are names of places and things:
WORD/ MEANING
Nyash - Anus
Okworo iko - Nyash evangelist
Etubom (Chairman/Helmsman/ Pastor) - Lover of fat women
Etie ibot okpokoro - Comptroller/ Chairman/ HOD/ He/ she who occupies the head of the table/ Principality
Ekpo (Demon/ A name of a person, meaning "Mr. Devil".)
Okon (Darkness/ the name of a person meaning "Mr. Darkness")
Okokon (Double darkness/ The name of a person, meaning Mr. Double darkness)
Nkoyo - (A feminine name, meaning I got this female child out of wedlock)
Ndarake - (A person's name, meaning I'm not happy/Mr. Sadness).
Ndem - (A person's name, meaning Mr. Mermaid).
Asuquo - (A person's name meaning "I am a flood" or Mr. Song)
Calabar (The capital city of CROSS RIVER state of Nigeria, meaning, "Calabash", "Akan aba" or "Survival of the fittest".)
Akaseko? - (The name of a place, meaning, "What did you go looking for there?" Or simply "safety is not guaranteed over there".)
Okut Ikang - (The name of a place meaning, "If you saw the fire that fell here [in the spiritual realm]!")
Akpabuyo - (The name of a place and River, meaning variously "Just die and go", "Floating Corpses River" or simply, "Passage River".
Odukpani - (The name of a place meaning, "Get in and die".)
Akamkpa - (The name of a place meaning "You've gone for your death")
Mbukpa - (The name of a place meaning "Decay and die" or "Decayed intestines".)
Etta Agbo - (A person's name, meaning "Bone eater").
Etung - (The name of a place, meaning, MASOCHISM, WOUNDER OR WOUNDS).
ETC, ETC...
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