The South African Language

South Africans have very peculiar ways of speaking. Not only do we have 11 official languages, we sometimes use three at the same time and easily switch between the languages we are able to speak. And as Marloes and Suzanne can testify, sometimes the words don’t relate at all to what you think it might be... (check the meaning of 'robot' in the topic on traffic!). We’ve even added interesting words to the English language! Some of the favourites:

  • Howzit = How are you?
  • Just now = I’ll see you just now – this could be 5 minutes or an hour later OR you can be told 'I’ll see you right now or now-now'
  • Lekker = nice
  • Koki (pen) = a felt tip pen
  • Naartjie = a tangerine, a citrus fruit (now also a kids clothing label)
  • Pavement = the sidewalk
  • Biltong, Trek, .... etc!
check out these links to learn more:

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Beauty & Art & K&S

Dear all,

The group on Beauty & Art, formed by Kemp, PJ, Petra, Joseph and Marloes, now have two ideas!! One is to arrange one or two visits to something that contributes to / consist of beauty, such as a museum of Art, the theatre, musical inspiration etc.

The other idea is to link with a contact of Andrea, Nikodemis van Rensburg. Check his work on http://www.southafricanartists.com/showartist.asp?Code=VRENS003. At this moment, he works at skills-development and environmental awareness in a youth jail in Soweto, through art therapy. He's looking for ways to realise this project, for instance through finding fundings or other solutions to make it attractive for himself and others to join in.

If anyone would like to join our club, please don't hesitate to get in touch! On the next K&S-dag in Belgium (2nd of June), we will think these ideas through and we would love your help in that!

Warm regards,

The Beauty-team :-)
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