What then is a postproverbial, or to address the form in the plural sense, what are postproverbials? Postproverbials are radicalized proverbial utterances which subvert the logic and the pattern of conventional proverbs...
Proverb: Gya m’wɛ n’tu, se m’yage lam.
Translation: Come down with good fortune rather than beauty.
Proverb: Akwana a tashi, watarana sai labara.
Translation: Day in day out, all shall be history.
Proverb: ɔbaa brefoɔ kɔ aware a, ɔde ade pa ba fie.
Translation: If a hardworking woman marries, she brings good things home.
Proverb: Anaghị eji ahụhụ anya isi.
Translation: You don’t boast with suffering or hardship.
Proverb: Àgbàtán làá gbọ̀lẹ; bí a d’áṣọ fún un, à á pa á láro.
Translation: A lazy man should be helped completely; when you buy him a cloth, you must also dye it.
Proverb: ɔpanin fɛre ne ba, na ɔnsuro no.
Translation: An elder respects his child but does not fear the child.
