Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Learning Afrikaans : Revenge of the Ninjas



Many regulars may recall the saga of me attempting to learn Afrikaans. This is pre- OU prose, but is still the most popular reading and has the most comments. To save new comers searching the archives, it can be accessed here.

 
Now, whilst I was walking on clouds of utopia today (due to just getting my results for OU Children’s Lit with a Grade 2 ( one short of a Distinction, mind you) ), I had the perpetual yowl of Radio 1 in the background.

Well, hard to believe, but some Afrikaans speaking lunatics are storming up the charts with some insane gibberish, that sounds remarkably similar to my version of Afrikaans after Mrs Smuts had beaten me semi-dead.

So…I looked to see what this is all about and…. amazing, the total end of the Boer idea of white supremacy in some alcove in South Africa is seriously put to the test. So I therefore present… er…this which with 5 million hits might be a barometer of the way South Africa is going  -are these lunatics. My personal opinion…They never met Mrs Smuts.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"I kept singing this song out loud and then I discovered what 'Doos' meant haha"

Comment on another one of Die Antwoord's songs -Doosdronk by Rockstar96299

Well this is one way of preserving the language.

Unknown said...

learn some easy Afrikaans at http://heinsuniverse.com/afrikaans.html

Unknown said...

He really uses ugly Afrikaans words. Learn some proper, polite Afrikaans at http://heinsunviverse.com/afrikaans.html