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!
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Project: Beauty & Art

Communication from Kemp van Ginkel on 23 March 09:

Joseph, Marloes, Petra and Kemp have agreed to work on the theme of Art & Beauty.
First ideas are:

-to open up people's eyes to the beauty around, by expressing what we think is Beauty in our work and life;
-to support creation of beautiful things / art
-a project in which we use Art to bring people together and create connections

Some first thoughts from 15 minutes of talking....
Who would be interested to work with us from the SA group?
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