Felixamos:


The cursing was unnecessary.. Trust me, you can communicate without cursing..

Oga, did you listen to the audio or watched the video in contention? Did you even hear anything like gazelle blablabla??

Tinubu mumbled a different nonsense all together, while both you and ihordspy are busy defending and counter defending what was not mumbled, simply because a media house said so.

And even if Tinubu mumbled such, ihordspys explanations have no correlation to what the microphone licking urinating machine had in mind to say concerning jobs for yahoo boys.

In the end, one can safely conclude that no human living on planet earth heard clearly what Tinubu said.

Those defending the mumbo jumbo are doubly stupid.

Imagine ihordspy treading even where keyamo and onanuga won't dare, defending something above his pay grade

lhordspy:


Initially, at your first statement on this thread. You sounded so respectful and sane minded. I wanted to respond to your statement immediately. But then reading further, you started vying off.. I really see where you are going with this. You are no different from thr rest. Just that maybe you wear suit and tie.

First of all, i am not an APC member [/b]nor a worker. And i have every right to create a thread just as you can to argue or straighten your opinion.

Gazelle is animal with horn. A very long one. It moves quickly in a twinkle.

When someone is reffer to as growing horn. It means the person is becoming proud over-confident. Now gazelle moving very swiftly within a moment makes it unpredictable, unsettled. Because it can decides to takeoff even with the little interference of breeze that blows it.

In the screenshot you posted gazelle was reffer to as beautiful. Now take [b]beautiful, horn, and swift together. You get proudness, inflated, boastful.

All this in Tinubu's gazelle means Proud and unsettled.

Please always learn how to research deep before criticising others.

SHUT UP and Stop Lying.

U are an APC supporter, simple!

Despite these 8 years of Buhari/APC Misrule in which Nigeria have bedevilled with Widespread Hunger, Insecurity, Brain drain, Collapse of our Economy,etc, you guys want APC to go on..

Isn't dis Witchcraft?

I really wonder whether you APC/Tinubu fans are Somalians or Nigerians.

able20:
Each time Mr. Tinubu makes a blunder urchins will try to repair tinubu's self-made English.
He can't speak without a mistake

Because he's almost Brain dead.

Tinubu's present condition is a wake up call to youths who on daily basis indulge in habits that takes it's toll on the brain and nervous system.

Moderation or total abstinence is the key to a healthier old age. The poison is always in the dosage.

chukel:
Each time Tinubu speaks, people are sent researching their dictionaries. So much for a man they claim has no certificate and is unwell. You guys will be alright at last. I remember "recharge" lake Chad which exposed how dumb most of the critics are.

Lol

Balanblu Bulaba balublu also did

lhordspy:


Initially, at your first statement on this thread. You sounded so respectful and sane minded. I wanted to respond to your statement immediately. But then reading further, you started vying off.. I really see where you are going with this. You are no different from thr rest. Just that maybe you wear suit and tie.

First of all, i am not an APC member nor a worker. And i have every right to create a thread just as you can to argue or straighten your opinion.

Gazelle is animal with horn. A very long one. It moves quickly in a twinkle.

When someone is reffer to as growing horn. It means the person is becoming proud over-confident. Now gazelle moving very swiftly within a moment makes it unpredictable, unsettled. Because it can decides to takeoff even with the little interference of breeze that blows it.

In the screenshot you posted gazelle was reffer to as beautiful. Now take beautiful, horn, and swift together. You get proudness, inflated, boastful.

All this in Tinubu's gazelle means Proud and unsettled.

Please always learn how to research deep before criticising others.

Good morning Sir, so you are here?

You haven't still answered me on what exactly Tinubu said WORD FOR WORD, that ended with GIZELLE GARA GARA.

don't make me start following you on every Thread you comment on.

You defended what we all thot he said/did. But you can't say exactly what he said.

U are funny.

Even Oshimhole that was next to him cannot Requote that entire statement made by Tinubu.
Tinubu was already going into Limp-mode frok the very first word of that statement.

The "GIZELLE GAGARAGA" Abi na "BABARIGA" was just the point whereby his Brain-network that send signal to his Mouth had fallen to ONE-BAR.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9QH3Dgi1fE

etrange:
I believe the guy was just trying to defend his preferred candidate against all odds. However, for knowledge sake, it's important to correct something you said here:



The meaning of a noun could actually change based on how it's used in a sentence. The dictionary definition of a word is called the denotative meaning while the meaning it could adopt based on how it is used in a sentence (i.e. the idea associated with the word after considering the surrounding words or the emotions of the speaker) is called the connotative meaning.

When someone says you act like a pig, they are using the word "denotatively". Like you rightly said, it means you exhibit some characteristics of the animal. However, when they say you are a pig, they are using the word connotatively. It has exactly the same meaning as the previous sentence, however, they didn't bother to say "act like"; they said "you are" because they trust the audience to be smart enough to know that being a pig in this context means being dirty (since it's illogical to say a human being is literally a pig). Understanding these terms is very important for effective communication. Someone who called you a pig yesterday, for example, cannot come to the court house today to say "but I didn't say you were dirty".

That said, I personally do not agree with the ihordspy guy. Remember, the connotation of a word depends on the cultural context and personal associations, and for the meaning not to get lost in transit, the audience must be on the same page as the speaker (cultural background, profession, age group, social class, etc.). In the English language, the connotative meaning of "gazelle" is "a fast runner". We usually use the word "peacock" to refer to a proud person. Culturally speaking, do Yorubas refer to a proud person as a gazelle? I don't think so. I don't know about the "gazelle horn" saying, but even if Yorubas had such a saying, it would still not be sufficient to use the word in isolation to refer to a proud person. We say "the stubborn fly follows the corps to the grave", but we don't call a stubborn person a fly.

As for the second word, I noticed the guy really searched his Yoruba vocabulary to come up with words that remotely sound like what Tinubu uttered. This was made obvious by the fact that he came up with two words (gara gara and gaga raga) only for him to drop one along the line (gara gara) because it wasn't adding value to his argument. If he was so sure of what Tinubu was saying, he wouldn't have been scrambling for words.

Let's even assume "gazelle" refers to a proud person and "gaga raga" means proud, wouldn't one of them suffice in the sentence? OK, it's not a crime to use both together, but would Tinubu actually use a Yoruba adjective to qualify an English noun?

Honestly, it would have been better if the defender didn't say anything.

You are neither a yoruba nor have any little knowledge about yoruba. I dont know why you just keep beating around what you have no idea of. That is always my problem with people. You can never have an opinion in what you know nothing about.

In yoruba land, particular in Lagos. I grew at the ghetto area of Mushin. There are some Yoruba-slangs we use that are not understandable by regular yorubas. Even the pidgin language we all use as an alternative to English language in Nigeria here. There are some pidgin slangs not everyone understand. And these words are made from regular english dictionaries but the context it is use in, makes it different.

You saying for a connotative word to be apply then the speaker and audience must be of same age and cultural background whatever is entirely wrong and misleading.

In a peak of things, we got lost in the moment. We tend to utter words that are not generally known. It is a political rally for goodness sake. Hausa, pidgin, Yoruba, slangs, remarks, banter, and so many others are used.

We have seen the continous use of the word
' buga' in rallies these days. If not for the kiss daniel popular song 'Buga' that enlightened somepeople about it meaning. Some would have dismissed it as a gaffee. Telling you how it is not in the dictionary. Or how it is not a regular yoruba word. Whereas buga as been in existing since which means inflated, boastful, proud...

Do you know 'buga' in the North here means a well water drawer. That leather bag use in drawing water from the well? If not for Kiss daniel, the Northerners too will argue buga doesnt mean boastful or over-confidence. That the speaker is saying Nonsense.




I already straightened out the gazelle part to someone up there. You can check it out.

ruggedtimi:
na the mod shock me

The mod did very well exposing ihordspys foolishness even to a larger audience, thereby exposing Tinubu to futher ridicule

nairamaniac:


Good morning Sir, so you are here?

You haven't still answered me on what exactly Tinubu said WORD FOR WORD, that ended with GIZELLE GARA GARA.

don't make me start following you on every Thread you comment on.

You defended what we all thot he said/did. But you can't say exactly what he said.

U are funny.

Even Oshimhole that was next to him cannot Requote that entire statement made by Tinubu.
Tinubu was already going into Limp-mode frok the very first word of that statement.

The "GIZELLE GAGARAGA" Abi na "BABARIGA" was just the point whereby his Brain-network that send signal to his Mouth had fallen to ONE-BAR.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9QH3Dgi1fE

Please just try puttinf your word properly. Sometimes i hardly understand what people are saying. If you want to ask a question, just be straight. Instead of feeling everywhere in the post with 'blaboab' or 'Garahags' .. It makes the whole question an eyesore. Or even harder to comprehend....Just try and focus on your question .

BeardedmeatR:
Oga, did you listen to the audio or watched the video in contention? Did you even hear anything like gazelle blablabla??

Tinubu mumbled a different nonsense all together, while both you and ihordspy are busy defending and counter defending what was not mumbled, simply because a media house said so.

And even if Tinubu mumbled such, ihordspys explanations have no correlation to what the microphone licking urinating machine had in mind to say concerning jobs for yahoo boys.

In the end, one can safely conclude that no human living on planet earth heard clearly what Tinubu said.

Those defending the mumbo jumbo are doubly stupid.

Imagine ihordspy treading even where keyamo and onanuga won't dare, defending something above his pay grade

This is exactly what I have been saying since yesterday when this stupid thread came up.

That even oshimhole next tinubu didn't hear the statement. How much more ihordspy that is here with us on NAIRALAND.

Tinubu mumled the entire statement up from the moment he opened his mouth to commence the statement.

lhordspy:


Initially, at your first statement on this thread. You sounded so respectful and sane minded. I wanted to respond to your statement immediately. But then reading further, you started vying off.. I really see where you are going with this. You are no different from thr rest. Just that maybe you wear suit and tie.

First of all, i am not an APC member nor a worker. And i have every right to create a thread just as you can to argue or straighten your opinion.

Gazelle is animal with horn. A very long one. It moves quickly in a twinkle.

When someone is reffer to as growing horn. It means the person is becoming proud over-confident. Now gazelle moving very swiftly within a moment makes it unpredictable, unsettled. Because it can decides to takeoff even with the little interference of breeze that blows it.

In the screenshot you posted gazelle was reffer to as beautiful. Now take beautiful, horn, and swift together. You get proudness, inflated, boastful.

All this in Tinubu's gazelle means Proud and unsettled.

Please always learn how to research deep before criticising others.

The microphone licking urinating machine didn't even say what you came out to defend. That's double tragedy for you and your likes.

lhordspy:


Please just try puttinf your word properly. Sometimes i hardly understand what people are saying. If you want to ask a question, just be straight. Instead of feeling everywhere in the post with 'blaboab' or 'Garahags' .. It makes the whole question an eyesore. Or even harder to comprehend....Just try and focus on your question .

Tell us exactly what Tinubu said *word for word* in that particular statement.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9QH3Dgi1fE


Since you know Yoruba proverbs so well, use that proverb as an expo to aid you with what Tinubu said WORD FOR WORD.

nairamaniac:
This is exactly what I have been saying since yesterday when this stupid thread came up.

That even oshimhole next tinubu didn't hear the statement. How much more ihordspy that is here with us on NAIRALAND.

Tinubu mumled the entire statement up from the moment he opened his mouth to commence the statement.

You have rightly identified the root cause of his incoherence.


He went into limp- mode!!!

nairamaniac:
This is exactly what I have been saying since yesterday when this stupid thread came up.

That even oshimhole next tinubu didn't hear the statement. How much more ihordspy that is here with us on NAIRALAND.

Tinubu mumled the entire statement up from the moment he opened his mouth to commence the statement.

I am not even sure you read the writeup i made. You just maybe read the headline and start attacking it. I was not defending what Tinubu said. I was only defending what gattezzengr.com says Tinubu said. The statement from Tinubu was in quote exactly how gazettengr reported it. And i made reference to gattezzengr even before i started making my point. I even dropped the link.

I didnt tamper with what they reported that he said. I only lift it and put it inside a quote, then i defended.

nairamaniac:


Tell us exactly what Tinubu said *word for word* in that particular statement.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9QH3Dgi1fE


Since you know Yoruba proverbs so well, us that proverb as the expo aid you with what Tinubu said WORD FOR WORD.

Ihordspy cannot respond. He already said he reacted based on what the media put out.

It's either he watched the video but decided to fool his fellow zombies with his foolish explanations that have no connection to the point the mumbler was trying to make or he was too embarrassed to watch the video and hear the thrash with his own ears.

I will go with the later, he was too embarrassed to watch video but thought he was clever enough to decieve sensible Nigerians with futher mumbo jumbo.

BeardedmeatR:
Oga, did you listen to the audio or watched the video in contention? Did you even hear anything like gazelle blablabla??

Tinubu mumbled a different nonsense all together, while both you and ihordspy are busy defending and counter defending what was not mumbled, simply because a media house said so.

And even if Tinubu mumbled such, ihordspys explanations have no correlation to what the microphone licking urinating machine had in mind to say concerning jobs for yahoo boys.

In the end, one can safely conclude that no human living on planet earth heard clearly what Tinubu said.

Those defending the mumbo jumbo are doubly stupid.

Imagine ihordspy treading even where keyamo and onanuga won't dare, defending something above his pay grade

Yes I did watched the video and I agree that it wasn't the exact words he said.. I just went by Ihordspy narrative..

lhordspy:


I am not even sure you read the writeup i made. You just maybe read the headline and start attacking it. I was not defending what Tinubu said. I was only defending what gattezzengr.com says Tinubu said. The statement from Tinubu was in quote exactly how gazettengr reported it. And i made reference to gattezzengr even before i started making my point. I even dropped the link.

I didnt tamper with what they reported that he said. I only lift it and put it inside a quote, then i defended.

Nonsense!

You believe everything you read because you are zombified.

That's how foolishly desperate you lots are.

From using Donald Duke's pictures to beheading Ebuka.

Who are your leaders in that BMC gaan

It's like you are all after the bullion van loot and not interested in doing a thorough job for your disadvantaged candidate.

Tinubu should sack all of you!

Felixamos:


I liked the fact that ihordspy made his post without adding any insult to it but trying to force the definition of another word on "gazelle" is really sad and laughable.. and even more sad, is the fact that such error was pushed to the front page by a mod who's "supposed to know better(supposedly)". you know how shameful it is? a foreigner could read that and assume that's how low the IQ of Nigerians are(God Forbid!).

You should know the moderator who moved it to front page is an Afonja Muslim who is so shameless to be playing ethnic politics on a public forum he is meant to be impartial.

Felixamos:

Yes I did watched the video and I agree that it wasn't the exact words he said.. I just went by Ihordspy narrative..

Then you have become equally yoked with zombies.

Your counter should have been not to defend what does not exist, Ihordspy defended what didn't exist. And even his defense has no nexus with the point Tinubu was trying to make before going into limp- mode.

No man born of a woman including Tinubu himself heard clearly was mumbled

lhordspy:




Gazelle is animal with horn. A very long one. It moves quickly in a twinkle.

When someone is reffer to as growing horn. It means the person is becoming proud over-confident. Now gazelle moving very swiftly within a moment makes it unpredictable, unsettled. Because it can decides to takeoff even with the little interference of breeze that blows it.

In the screenshot you posted gazelle was reffer to as beautiful. Now take beautiful, horn, and swift together. You get proudness, inflated, boastful.

All this in Tinubu's gazelle means Proud and unsettled.

Please always learn how to research deep before criticising others.

I'm sorry for taking you to be an apc member when you're not..

Now to the topic, Tinubu never said anything like "a gazelle growing horns"..

And to the meaning of gazelle, please let's not make ourselves look like illiterates na!

Have you even bothered looking for the synonyms of "gazelle"? There's none of its attributes that relates to proud or boastful..

And I make you this challenge, if you can provide any with dictionary backing, I'll take down my post and render a very warm apology to you. It's a promise..

But if you can't, accept the fact that, Tinubu said something even he himself cannot tell the meaning of and move on..

lhordspy:


Initially, at your first statement on this thread. You sounded so respectful and sane minded. I wanted to respond to your statement immediately. But then reading further, you started vying off.. I really see where you are going with this. You are no different from thr rest. Just that maybe you wear suit and tie.

First of all, i am not an APC member nor a worker. And i have every right to create a thread just as you can to argue or straighten your opinion.

Gazelle is animal with horn. A very long one. It moves quickly in a twinkle.

When someone is reffer to as growing horn. It means the person is becoming proud over-confident. Now gazelle moving very swiftly within a moment makes it unpredictable, unsettled. Because it can decides to takeoff even with the little interference of breeze that blows it.

In the screenshot you posted gazelle was reffer to as beautiful. Now take beautiful, horn, and swift together. You get proudness, inflated, boastful.

All this in Tinubu's gazelle means Proud and unsettled.

Please always learn how to research deep before criticising others.

Lol, for real? Tinubu meant a gazelle that is proud and unsettled? What about the "gragauda", what did he mean by that?

BeardedmeatR:
Then you have become equally yoked with zombies.

Your counter should have been not to defend what does not exist, Ihordspy defended what didn't exist. And even his defense has no nexus with the point Tinubu was trying to make before going into limp- mode.

No man born of a woman including Tinubu himself heard clearly was mumbled

You lack good communication skills but I'll still indulge you.. The idea of the whole thing was to make him look silly in his own game..

Felixamos:

You lack good communication skills but I'll still indulge you.. The idea of the whole thing was to make him look silly in his own game..

You failed woefully.

Thanks for the nice compliment.

BeardedmeatR:
Ihordspy cannot respond. He already said he reacted based on what the media put out.

It's either he watched the video but decided to fool his fellow zombies with his foolish explanations that have no connection to the point the mumbler was trying to make or he was too embarrassed to watch the video and hear the thrash with his own ears.

I will go with the later, he was too embarrassed to watch video but thought he was clever enough to decieve sensible Nigerians with futher mumbo jumbo.

Yeah, clever by half though.

nedekid:

Yeah, clever by half though.

He's not clever at all. He has exposed Tinubu to futher ridicule.

plaindealer:


You mean I'm not obsessing over your meaningless, hopeless and pointless foolery?

As they say, little and pointless things trouble shallow minds. When people like you are confronted with issues beyond your low-grade mentality, you end up in a state of confusion and endless hallucinations, what a sad malady.

Again, kill yourself over your ignorant rubbish, millions of Nigerians will still vote for Asiwaju, including me to make him the President of Nigeria so your wailing and laboring in vain is meaningless.

Ndo..

Jesus truly wept for irredeemable senile drug addicted nincompoops like you

Felixamos:

I'm sorry for taking you to be an apc member when you're not..

Now to the topic, Tinubu never said anything like "a gazelle growing horns"..

And to the meaning of gazelle, please let's not make ourselves look like illiterates na!

Have you even bothered looking for the synonyms of "gazelle"? There's none of its attributes that relates to proud or boastful..

And I make you this challenge, if you can provide any with dictionary backing, I'll take down my post and render a very warm apology to you. It's a promise..

But if you can't, accept the fact that, Tinubu said something even he himself cannot tell the meaning of and move on..

Please this discussion is over. I just cant help it. I dont know how to pour this meaning into you other than what i am doing now. I just explained something to you and you are still dragging me back , repeating same thing again and again.

Who said Tinubu made a 'gazelle horn' statement? ... For crying out loud. Gazelle is an animal with horn. Horn signifies proudness. When you say someone is growing 'Horn' .. It signifies proudness, over-confident.

I am just telling you gazelle used by Tinubu is not reffering to the animal itself but the attribute, character and the physical structure that makes up the animal. He takes it and turn it into a connotative form.

And yet still you are still reffering me to a dictionary. What is wrong with you oga. Do i have to explain everything for you 1 2 3, A B C?

When i say someone is like a horse in a sexual way. Which denotes having a big manhood. And you are now asking me to check the meaning in dictionary if i will see anything like 'big pri*ck' . Does that make sense to you?

Where in the dictionary will you find the word 'big' used for horses. All you are going to see is maybe 'fast.'

Please use your head or just quit bothering me.

lhordspy:





I already straightened out the gazelle part to someone up there. You can check it out.

As long as we're making reference to an English word, it can only make sense to seek its meaning from a dictionary.. Like! these guys literally taught us how to speak the language..

Tinubu does not have a dictionary that I know of so let's stick to the facts.. Show me with picture proof from a dictionary, where the word "gazelle" means "proud or boastful".

I don't speak yoruba so I'll let your definition of gagaraga slide..

lhordspy:




I am just telling you gazelle used by Tinubu is not reffering to the animal itself but the attribute, character and the physical structure that makes up the animal. He takes it and turn it into a connotative form.

If not because this is my thread, I would have discontinued engaging you in this discussion.. It's either you get too excited in using words you don't understand or you don't have an average understanding of English language(no insults)..

So let's go with your narrative that Tinubu was referring to the characteristics, attributes, physical structure that make up the animal and thereby referring to its connotative meaning.
And at the bolded, you reconfirmed it yourself that he was referring to its "connotative" meaning. Now can you show me a proof of where the connotative definition of "gazelle" has "proud or boastful" as one of its attributes?

Can you give a connotative meaning to a "noun" which attributes and characteristics does not relate to?

Would it be appropriate if I said "you are a pig" and then come up with an unrelated meaning like; "I said you were a pig because you have eyes and a pig has eyes too"?
Instead of a proper connotative answer like; "I said you were a pig because you're dirty"?

There's a reason the different structures in English language was formed and if we don't follow it, how can we still say we're speaking English?

If Tinubu wanted to refer to the horn of a gazelle, he would have said it and then your comments would have made a little sense.. If you were even making an argument that the horns represented protection, it would have made a little sense. But you're trying to force the meaning of another word on gazelle and any scholar would find that very irritating as there are no dictionary or a single word on Google to back up such claim.. Remember it's an English word.

BeardedmeatR:
Ihordspy cannot respond. He already said he reacted based on what the media put out.

It's either he watched the video but decided to fool his fellow zombies with his foolish explanations that have no connection to the point the mumbler was trying to make or he was too embarrassed to watch the video and hear the thrash with his own ears.

I will go with the later, he was too embarrassed to watch video but thought he was clever enough to decieve sensible Nigerians with futher mumbo jumbo.

Ihordspy said it clearly in his post that he was referencing the Peoples Gazette. So if you have any issues, you should be directing it to the peoples gazette..

That I don't support Ihordspy submit dosen't mean I'll let you make false claims against him.. At the end of the day, we're all still Nigerians by birth..

If it were just because of folks like you who are quick to insult with little or no intelligence, myself and pretty much many Nigerians wouldn't have been supporting Peter Obi..

A gazelle is a beautiful and swift animal associated with a graceful carriage. It has nothing to do with boastful pride, or a loud personality.
But I have come to understand that many Nigerian politicians sell the idea daily that this country is peopled by semi/full illiterates!
For example, the meaning of competence & experience has been so bastardized in the past few months, that it is not difficult to deduce why IELTS & TOFEL are required of potential immigrants from Nigeria by countries who are well aware of our anglophone roots!
That is what people like Ihordspy propagate with statements like that obnoxious thread to explain away a presidential candidate’s obvious speech impediment!

Felixamos:


First off, thank you for such an amazing write up.. Sorry I had to crop out some part so it dosen't take too much space in my comment..

Having said that, I believe you read my write up which I clearly said; In English Language, it's impossible for the actual meaning of a noun to change when used in a sentence as Ihordspy tried doing. And I still stand by my word with emphasis on "Change Meaning".. Attached is the definition of a connotative noun by "Oxford dictionary".. We can't argue with Oxford now or can we?

According to "Oxford" Connotations add to the literal meaning of a word not change it..

To further buttress my point, you said and I quote
"However, when they say you are a pig, they are using the word connotatively. It has exactly the same meaning as the previous sentence, however, they didn't bother to say "act like"; they said "you are" because they trust the audience to be smart enough to know that being a pig in this context means being dirty (since it's illogical to say a human being is literally a pig)."

At the bolded, the reason they trust, their audience could easily relate that a pig in the context used means dirty is because the " pig" already has a literal and primary definition, of which dirty is not unrelated. If you look up the meaning of a pig on Google, you will find out amongst its meaning, it's an animal that uses its snout to search for food in the ground. Now that act alone can already be tagged as dirty..
Hence it's safe to say the connotative meaning of a noun can not be different from its known characteristics.
And the characteristics of a noun is what makes the noun so both the connotative and donnotative meaning of a noun are very much intertwined with each other..

So like you rightly pointed out, Ihordspy tried to give his own meaning to "Gazelle" which is both connotatively and donnotatively unrelated and that is very wrong.

<preamble>
Bro, I'm a foreign language teacher, and I'm telling you that once the meaning is extended to include other things in specific contexts, it's a change. A change doesn't have to be an overhaul. The Oxford dictionary says "in addition to" because the concept of connotation does not strip a word off its original meaning. If a pig refers to an animal in a context and refers to a dirty human being in another context, they are technically considered as two different meanings of the same word even though one took its root from the other. So the meaning changes by context, and that's normal.
</preamble>

However, this doesn't really affect the point I was making. Whether you call it a change, an extension or addition, my point is that if Tinubu was using the word connotatively, then gazelle could mean just about anything and not necessarily the dictionary definition and, as I'll explain in the next paragraph, this new meaning cannot be deciphered just by considering the characteristics of gazelle from our own perspective.

The reason the speaker trusts the audience to understand the connotative meaning of a word isn't just because the word is generally associated with that meaning (like the pig-to-dirt explanation you gave) but primarily because the word is associated with that meaning in a group or classification that both the speaker and the audience belong to. This group could be religious, ethnic, linguistic, professional, age bracket, country, etc. and if you do not belong to this group, you wouldn't know that particular connotation. Yes, pigs are dirty, but in a different society, that same word could connote "abundance" because people there view it in terms of the size and not the behavior. So the person you're arguing with could easily claim that because you're not Yoruba or because you're not from a particular Yoruba town, you wouldn't appreciate the association of gazelle to pride. And linguistically speaking, this would be a valid argument especially if it is confirmed by someone from that region (even though we both know he's just grasping for straws).

Does it make sense now? This is why I looked beyond the gazelles/pride relationship to point out other reasons why I believe he's just struggling to defend what doesn't make sense.

I don't know how else to explain it.

lhordspy:


Initially, at your first statement on this thread. You sounded so respectful and sane minded. I wanted to respond to your statement immediately. But then reading further, you started vying off.. I really see where you are going with this. You are no different from thr rest. Just that maybe you wear suit and tie.

First of all, i am not an APC member nor a worker. And i have every right to create a thread just as you can to argue or straighten your opinion.

Gazelle is animal with horn. A very long one. It moves quickly in a twinkle.

When someone is reffer to as growing horn. It means the person is becoming proud over-confident. Now gazelle moving very swiftly within a moment makes it unpredictable, unsettled. Because it can decides to takeoff even with the little interference of breeze that blows it.

In the screenshot you posted gazelle was reffer to as beautiful. Now take beautiful, horn, and swift together. You get proudness, inflated, boastful.

All this in Tinubu's gazelle means Proud and unsettled.

Please always learn how to research deep before criticising others.

What's the source of your research