Travis
Yeh, I think you have summed it up very well. And it's an important point you make about loanwords from different sources, which often LOOK very much the same
Andre, have you seen the movie "Power of One"? If so, do you think Stephen Dorf carried off a reasonable English SA accent?
Trawis : ja , ja ! Englisch ist eine germanische Sprache... mit bedeutender romanisierten Wortschatz (70 %). Entschuldigung für alle Fehler.
/me lacht über die Schreibung seines Namens als "Trawis" oben.
TE
No, didn't see it. But the "South African" accents in American movies every now and then are usually terrible. The accents in Lethal Weapon 3 didn't sound South African at all. BTW, Charlize Theron's accent isn't SA either, she learned an American English.
I meant an American accent
This tread is going so fast even I can't keep up with it....
I have a question for Greg....where are you from?!
Then since it is a "Afrikaner Language Thread" Id like to know....did I spell the "Afrikaner" thing right or should it be "Afrikaans(e) Language tread" ?! Andre ?!
Ah Sander :) Hope your studies went well
Actually it should have been the Afrikaans Language Thread. Afrikaner refers to the nation (and not all Afrikaans speakers regard themselves as Afrikaners). But it's not a problem
By the way...
How do you count to twenty in Afrikaans?!
Sander
>Are you an Afrikaner? <
yes - but I am not a Boer, the other term sometimes used by some people (and foreigners often confuse the two)
een twee drie vier vyf ses sewe agt nege tien elf twaalf dertien veertien vyftien sestien sewentien agtien negentien twintig
=>but I am not a Boer<=
No,you said you werent a farmer.
een - een
twee -twee
drie -drie
vier -vier
vyf -vijf
ses -zes
sewe -zeven (but it sounds allmost the same)
agt -acht (sounds the same)
nege - negen
tien -tien
elf -elf (though pronounced as ELLUF)
twaalf -twaalf (sometimes as TWAALUF)
dertien -dertien
veertien -veertien
vyftien -vijftien
sestien -zestien
sewentien -zeventien
agtien -achtien
negentien -negentien (strange ...you use negE for 9 but negENtien for 19)
twintig-twintig
Really strange....
Ignore the idiot please.....
Not you Ali G !
I am a big fan !