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paa.kwesi

Hehe, so I just spoke with a GhanaThinker and he brought to my attention that punctuating English sentences with the word "actually" is very Ghana-esque. He tells me his mother liked the word a lot. I've also come across bad jokes about this word that go along the lines of "you know you are Ghanaian if..."

Would anyone happen to know the earliest recorded reference to this manner of speech? I know I use "actually" mostly in place of "in fact" :) but never having noticed my use of it really until today, I wonder in what other contexts it can be used.

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Submitted by paa.kwesi on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 23:32.

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OMANBA

Re: ACTUALLY

How about ''In actual fact or as a matter of fact''
Personally speaking, I think 'actually' comes into play when you are using the Either/Or premise to demarcate between a situation or a thing, so you say actually it was this and not that.
The 'In fact' is when there is a surety about the subject so you use it to emphasise or give a boost to the sentence.

THE CRINGE FACTOR! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT GOD MADE THREE WORLDS AND THAT I COME FROM THE THIRD WORLD. THE ISSUE OF RACE IS GEOGRAPHICAL AND NOT A STATUS SYMBOL AND NEITHER IS MY SKIN BLACK NOR YOURS WHITE.

Sun, 05/27/2007 - 09:49