German or Italian???

Neither do I. I was thinking the same thing, but I was kind of mad that he was saying that the Nazis were not very horrible.

Oh yeah, Tremmert, I am just reading this really great book about South Africa called, "Modern South Africa." It is really great. I have not been able to read it as fast as I would like, but it is addictive and really informative.

All right, another brain storm of ideas that keep coming to me.

Tremmert, I was reading in this book that the Afrikaners during the Apartheid era were concerned about the Afrikaner culture and language fading away, so they tried to impose them on everyone. But it did not work because nobody wants to learn the language of the oppressor, especially in the case of Apartheid. But it was interesting to note that when the British came to South Africa in the early 1800's, they set up schools and tried to educate everyone, and they also tried to spread Christianity to everyone. This in turn, spread the use of the English language. And since the Afrikaners did not want to have much to do with the native population, they did not want to teach them their language and culture.

So x number of years later, the English language became more widespread and the Afrikaans language was just used by the Afrikaners. So if the Afrikaners had come to South Africa in the beginning and taught their language to the native population for a long time, Apartheid could have taken place and the language of South Africa could have been Afrikaans as a language of the majority of South Africans.

Just kind of interesting I thought; if the original Dutch settlers and their descendents would have taught Dutch to everyone, the linguistical history of South Africa might have been very different.

However, a little before and then after the Boer War, a majority of whites were for seperation of the races.

All people are equal. It is the black people who are creating the racism. We get rid of the black people, no more racism. Simple.

someone shoot him please.

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It edited out the padding spaces?

Look I was kidding. I'm not even a real person so don't take anything I say seriously.

Of course you're a real person - it's just your name that's fake ;)

Aha! "Blekbescher;" I get it now (thanks to my limited knowledge of Afrikaans).

Isn't it the same pronunciation as German? ;)

Yes, but then in German it would be, "Schwartzverletzer." Well, this would be Pennsylvania German (Ick habb ken idee was es iss auf Deutsch).

learn whatever you want, id say both, they're both just as good. wingyellow, wut is with you and asian languages? just b/c you like it doesn't mean you have to diss everything else.