You are absolutely right! Its simply a question of registers. Professional linguists know too well the paradigm of register in whatever language they specialize on.
Average native users may not know all of the register usage depending on education breadth of exposure to the differences in provincial usage etc (as one of the Abiola Irele interviews reveal about the level of competence in Yoruba usage by some Yoruba kids brought up in Yoruba land.)
Foreigners learning about languages in second language contexts will be able to appreciate in most cases only the formal registers unless their goal is expertise in that language as opposed to familiarization with the language i.e. enough to get by, say in the urban centres or holiday destinations.)
The table you shared refers to urban centre/ formal context registers. I agree that in the office context formal encounter where most foreigners will interract with native users and in leader/subordinate contexts that is the appropriate context.
But I also know that in the UK context if your boss or superior takes you as part of the office 'family' (and you are part of the office/pub/ office continuum which makes employees go the extra mile beyond contractual obligations s/he is unlikely to use that register in communicating with you (at least not all the time) since you would have joined the nod and the wink communicative clique.
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Well Yinka, now Faruk has an additional challenge in his discussion of English(es) and the actual meaning
of words in various contexts.
Some words and expressions may actually mean the opposite in some cases, depending on who utters them.
How do linguists deal with that phenomenon?
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May be some in their official capacities; not all British process and transmit communication in identical ways.
We must remember Britain is a collage of nationalities just like Nigeria. Remember the running linguistic foray on Nigerian English with Dr Faruk Kperogi?
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