Andre
>Will watch major matches though, when SA plays countries like Australia, India, Pakistan, England or New Zealand. <
So you basically watch the games we loose, he? ;)) No, ceriously, cricket is actually an enjoyable sport. I only watch one-day's, but if the test is interesting, i'll watch that too. I'm not really a fan of rugby or soccer. I know, I know, big disappointment I am :)
Anyway, just had to say hi, but I'm going again.
Thanks for the information supplied! Shame about the 4 game suspension given to Graeme Smith though.
I'm not sure if it speaks volumes of S. Africa's rejeuvenation of fortunes or the Windies's decline, but the games so far have been going madly in favour of S. Africa.
And what a shame you don't play cricket, Andre! I wasn't very good in the sport myself and was always relegated to being a fielder near the boundary half the time. As you can imagine, that's not very exciting at the most amateur of level, particularly since you want to be scoring runs and not trying to catch a fly ball.
On another note, I read that the South African Cricket Board has assiduously promoted the game among the blacks by sponsoring cricket programmes in the townships. If that is the case, it's simply good news.
I wasn't old enough to remember the freak accident of Hansie Cronje. Did you guys remember the aeroplane crash? The match-fixing scandals that plagued him which eventually landed him a life ban? I'd be most curious to know what were your reactions and how you coped with his departure (both from the game and the terrestrial world).
I apologise for highjacking this thread shamelessly to satisfy my own selfish curiosity. Let normal business continue, please.
Louis
The story of Hansie Cronje's suspension and his death were huge news here, as you can imagine. People had strong views and were very divided over whether he deserved to be suspended. His death was a great shock to all. Regardless of what he did, he was a great cricketer, and by all accounts a good person, though he had his faults. I think you'd be interested in taking a look at this site:
http://www.ananzi.co.za/today/hansie.html
>On another note, I read that the South African Cricket Board has assiduously promoted the game among the blacks by sponsoring cricket programmes in the townships. If that is the case, it's simply good news. <
Yes, it is true and their programme is quite successful
And believe it or not, I'm actually watching the SA/Windies game at the moment ;)
BTW in which country do you live Louis?
hehe well done sander! ;)
Yeah,since I tragically missed the 1000th post,Im going to take every ...th everywhere :)
Well the 1000th is approaching on both the afrikaans and dutch threads... ;)
You can be too optimistic Andre.
South African English.....
And yes, we hear this daily...
This is
the English as it is now spoken on television and radio. The recently
published New Suth Effrican Deekshunry defines these new weds. Here are some
extracts and examples of their usage in the official New Suth Effrican
lungwich:
Bad - you sleep on it in the badroom
Beds - birds
Beg - container, as in shopping beg, hand-beg, tog-beg
Ben - to set alight
Chealdren - our future is in their hands
Chetz - where worshippers go on Sundays
Cuds - you can play poker or rummy with them
Cut - a small donkey-drawn vehicle
Debben - city in KZN (Durban)
Deekshunry - where you find weds (dictionary)
Detty - opposite of clean
Die'llas - as in drug die'llas or wee-pon die'llas
Driva - holds the steering wheel of a teksi (driver - taxi)
Duck - very duck at night when the lights are all off
Ebben - you get ebben erriors and rural erriors (urban areas and rural areas)
Effrican - from the continent of Africa
Erriors - districts, e.g. ebbon erriors
Ewways - eg. SAA, Comair
Fems - companies, e.g., Anglo-American
Fest - the one before second and third
Fok - used with nifes
Fum - you can fum with ship or kettle (farm with sheep or cattle)
Fumma - he owns the fum
Guddin - where you grow kebbijees (garden - cabbage)
Geave - you MUST geave, I WILL take
Get - a hinged device in a fence
Hair - as opposed to heem (her - him)
Heppi - state of elatement, e.g. I'm so heppi - I just voted
Hiss - masculine form of hairs
Hubba - where sheeps dock (harbour - ships)
Itch - as in itch and avairy pesson
Jems - little bugs that give you the flu (germs)
Kah - what you drive around in
Kennel - ummy officer (had to think here *a in SA* - colonel)
Kebbijees - vegetable
Keptown - some think parliament doesn't belong there (Cape Town)
Kettegry - in a system of classification
Kipper - one who kips, as in goal kipper
Kleenix - where nesses weck (clinics - where nurses work)
Kot - where the judges sit (court)
Len - to acquire knowledge
Leeda - as in Arwa Leeda, the president (leader - our leader)
Lungwich - weds what are spokkin
Mick - those that will inherit the eth (meak - earth)
Miening - what is the miening of this attack?
Nesses - they weck in kleenix and hospitals
Pee pull - powa to da pee pull (people)
Peppa - one way to get the news (paper)
Pesson - one of pee pull
Phlegm - the benning top of a kendal (burning top of a candle)
Pees - symbolised by white dove (peace)
Pees-Tox - between IRA and John Major (peace talks)
Reeva - e.g. Limpopo, Vaal, Orange (river)
Regime - anything to describe pre-1994
Ree kwest - replaced by dee mands (request)
Sheep - big boat
Shex - houses in squatter camps
Ship - provider of wool
Shit of Peppa - something to write on (sheet of paper)
Shuck-attak - if the shuck-net is brokkin (shark)
Shuck-nets - at Debben, for safety of sweamas (swimmers)
Spitch - what politicians make at a relly (speech)
Suth - opposite of North
Sweamas - compete in a sweaming pul
Teps - solvent to thin enamel paint
Teck - see geave
Teksi - kah for hire - sometimes parrot teksi
Thest - ice cold Coke will relieve it on a hot day
Tipic ally - characteristic
Tocks - negotiations
Ufrican - pertaining to Ufrica
Ummy - military force
Wee men - ladies
We pon - a gun
Wean-dow - with glus for throwing bricks through
Weaned - Gone with the Weaned
Weaner - the one with the most votes
Weckliss - the unemployed pee-pull
Weds - what the dictionary is made up of
Wekkas - do the weck
Weld - the eth
Wems - small crawly creatures
Weth - she is weth her weight in gold.
To Andre:
Bravo to S. Africa for a masterful job wrapped up in their 4th one-day international against the Windies! I didn't watch it, but the sports section lauded Ashwell Prince who hit a 89 run not out.
I'm from Singapore, by the way.
And thank you for that link. It's most interesting and v. informative! In all likelihood, Hansie Cronje has already been beatified and is put on the fast track towards sainthood by the cricketing masses. It's only a matter of time before he joins the pantheon of great cricketing legends such as WGG Grace.
Baie Dankie!
I agree Louis. It's a pity his career ended in such a way, but there can be no doubt that he was a brilliant cricketer. In the long run people will only remember that. BTW I live in Bloemfontein, the city where he grew up - his parents still live here. Most people here simply refuse he did anything wrong, and you dare not critisize him.
*Baie Dankie! *
My plesier! :)
South Africans and Kiwis appear to be similar in the way they pronounce their vowels.