South African English

Tyrone that msg yours?

whoops, that last message was from me, not snipsa.

ennnee.....Do you have ...windmills?!

Of course! In that part of the country ;) *platteland*
You won't find any of those in Gauteng. But here we do have windbags - A bunch of old omies sitting on their stoeps

Im buying tickets! Andre Im going to stay at your place!


Or....would that be far away from the platteland? (he lives in "bloemfontein")

Yeh it is kinda far away, but I've only been to Bloem once so I don't know, if I'm not mistaken they have flat fields and windmills there as well.
Don't you Andre?

bloem seemed flat enough when i rode through it...granted it was hour 18 of a 22 hour bus ride, so i was slightly out of my head =).

=>flat enough<=

Yes,well I like "Dutch flattness" so no hils or craters...perfect flatness.

Thats what I thought ;) I need to visit the rest of my country a bit more. I only know Gauteng and Mpumalanga. Only been to Cape Town once in my life. I know of people from other countries who've seen ten times more things in my country than I've.

>Im buying tickets! Andre Im going to stay at your place!


Or....would that be far away from the platteland? (he lives in "bloemfontein") <

You're welcome Sander ;) Bloem is a city, but platteland really. And the area is flat! Must mention though, we don't have windmills of the Dutch type

To show my lack of knowledge, Andre what's the difference between our windmills and their's?

Andre this one is more for you

It's Great to be a Souf Efrikan

This is a great country because:

1. You can eat half dried meat and not be considered disgusting.
2. Nothing is your fault, you can blame it all on apartheid.
3. You get to buy a new car every 3 months and the insurance
company even pays for it.
4. You can experience '*/* service in eleven official languages.
5. Where else can you get oranges with 45% alcohol content at
rugby matches?
6. It's the only country in the world where striking workers
show; how angry they are by dancing.
7. You're considered clumsy if you cannot: use a cell phone
(without car kit), change CDs, drink a beer, put on make-up, read the
newspaper and smoke, all at the same time while driving a car at 160 kph in a 60 kph zone.
8. Great accent. (!!!)
9. If you live in Johannesburg, you get to brag about living in
the most dangerous city in the world.
10. Burglar bars become a feature, and a great selling point for
your house.
11. You can decorate your garden walls with barbed wire.
12. The tow-trucks are the first on the scene for most major
crimes, without being called.
The police you have to call about three times!
13. Votes have to be recounted until the right party wins.
14. Illegal immigrants leave the country because the crime rate
is too high.
15. The police ask you if they must follow up on the burglary you've just reported.
16. Where a murderer gets a 6 month sentence and a pirate TV
viewer 2 years.
17. The prisoners strike and get to vote in elections!
18. The police stations have panic buttons to call armed
response when they are burgled
19. Police cars are fitted with immobilisers and gearlocks!

Ja nee, Dis lekkerrrrr hierr

This is highly exagerated but mostly sadly true.

Snipsa

Well, at least we can laugh about it! And there's enough good things too :))

These are the windmills Sander means

http://www.molendatabase.nl/nederland/index_e.html

Now I know what you're talking about Sander!
Sorry, none of those here. But if you go to Hartbeespoort, close to Pretoria, between all the hills and mountains, there is a restaurant built in that style. Looks just like your windmills ;)

Well,It will have to do then.... ;)