Andre from South Africa presents: "The Afrikaner Language Thread"

andre in south africa   Friday, April 15, 2005, 07:15 GMT
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
TE   Friday, April 15, 2005, 07:28 GMT

Andre, have you seen the movie "Power of One"? If so, do you think Stephen Dorf carried off a reasonable English SA accent?
greg   Friday, April 15, 2005, 07:53 GMT
Trawis : ja , ja ! Englisch ist eine germanische Sprache... mit bedeutender romanisierten Wortschatz (70 %). Entschuldigung für alle Fehler.
Travis   Friday, April 15, 2005, 08:10 GMT
/me lacht über die Schreibung seines Namens als "Trawis" oben.
andre in south africa   Friday, April 15, 2005, 08:17 GMT
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.
andre in south africa   Friday, April 15, 2005, 08:36 GMT
I meant an American accent
Sander   Friday, April 15, 2005, 12:08 GMT
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 ?!
andre in south africa   Friday, April 15, 2005, 12:37 GMT
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
Sander   Friday, April 15, 2005, 12:45 GMT
Are you an Afrikaner?
Sander   Friday, April 15, 2005, 12:47 GMT
By the way...

How do you count to twenty in Afrikaans?!
andre in south africa   Friday, April 15, 2005, 12:58 GMT
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
Sander   Friday, April 15, 2005, 14:26 GMT
=>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....
Ali G   Friday, April 15, 2005, 15:11 GMT
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check it out ! respect !
Sander   Friday, April 15, 2005, 15:34 GMT
Ignore the idiot please.....
Sander   Friday, April 15, 2005, 15:41 GMT
Not you Ali G !

I am a big fan !