Think Of Africa - Page 2

Sebatianos · 18-06-2005, 08:03 AM

Diffenetly not Greek... or Italian.

I think there aren't any non african languages that place the sounds M and B so close together (MBOTE). That's a soud quite uniqe to the central and southern African tribes.

I know this will seem

, but...

How come you presumed Ines is Kosta's father (and not mother)? This made me think of a riddle I once heard.

Father took his son on a little car ride, but they had an accident. Two ambulances arivied and tooke each of them to a different hospital.
The son got to the hospital and was taken to the ER, but the doctor there said: "I can't operate on this patient. It's my son."

Now if you ask people how this is possible, they'll probably start thinking that the father was the doctor and got cured so fast and rushed to this hospital... Or that the doctor is the biological father and the on who took the boy on the trip was mother's new boyfriend (or the other way around)... Only about 10% of people will say - the doctor is the boy's mother.
Strange right? Or just to "male-orientated"...

Mahar Vairo · 18-06-2005, 09:27 AM

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Originally posted by Stroggy@Jun 18 2005, 08:03 AM
I can read Afrikaans

Goeie more, hoe gaan dit?

Afrikaans isn't my first language.
We learnt afrikaans in school as a second language.
I wasn't very good at it, and by have forgotten most of it's rules.
But since most people in SA are bilingual I still can understand whats being said.

My medium is english, but SA english is quite different from other english.
It's contains a lot of slang words, afrikaans words, and a quite a bit of other words which I'm not certain of there origin.

My home language is suppose to be Urdha or goodghrati, 'cause my mother is from India and my father is from Pakistan.(can't even spell the names right)
But as far back as I remember I have always spoken english.

This upsets quite a few people in my culture including my brothers, because they learnt it while I wasn't really bothered.
...sigh... Here's a sentence I hear quite a bit:
"Ow!(slang for Oh), you're an Indian and you don't even know your own language."

bliksim* how I hate that!

*Anyone can guess what this word means.

(It's not what you think)

Stroggy · 18-06-2005, 09:32 AM

A friend of mine spent his childhood in South-Africa before he moved here.
he once showed me his old South African passport which read "population class: white"

Mahar Vairo · 18-06-2005, 10:18 AM

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Originally posted by Stroggy@Jun 18 2005, 09:32 AM
A friend of mine spent his childhood in South-Africa before he moved here.
he once showed me his old South African passport which read "population class: white"

Yes! "Freedom and Democracy for all" only happened in the early 90's
Our first "free and fair election" happened in 1994.(If you didn't know that already)
SA just made a big thing about our 10 years of freedom last year.
...sigh... but we are not free yet, alot still needs to be done.
As Nelson Mandela(or Madiba) said:
"It's a long walk to freedom."(Popular saying of his)

Most people think the 'walk for freedom' is over(shakes head while sighing), but it has only begun.
Wish I could say I'm going to contribute something, but I can't be certain if I will myself. (heaps of sighs)

Ines · 20-06-2005, 09:21 PM

Sorry, I couldn't come up about Lingala language with somthing better than a link http://thor.prohosting.com/~linguist/lingala.htm
Lingala-English Dictionary is also available on line, and can be bought at misionaries in Kinshasa - it means a great deal to people specialised in African languages.

However, in the meantime I learned that famous Congolese music is also called Lingala (for obvious reason

k: ). I am doing my best to find CDs with songs from Papa Wemba and other famous Congolese bands, but that seems to be a problem around here. It is probably much easier to get them in Paris or Brussels.

What I did succeede, is to get a French language course at Alianse Francais in Kinshasa

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Au revoir! :bye: