LL-L "Language varieties" 2008.09.12 (02) [E]

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From: *E Zinsser <ezinsser at icon.co.za>*
Subject: *LL-L "Language varieties" 2008.09.08 (02) [E]*

Hi all,

Paul, more Afrikaans/EnglishAfrikaans include:

-Ja, no, well, fine ('whatever')
-Hoesit (how's it?)
-Ja, nee
-Swaer ('bro', 'dude')

and of course many profanities such as k*k (faeces).

I've recently seen an upsurge of Afrikaans forms in some English newspapers
in cases where government is reprimanded, for instance 'they better remove
their oogklappe' (The Star).

This mode of using Afrikaans as preferred language for negative discourse
was quite typical between the 1970s and 1990s and used to great effect by
white non-Afrikaans speakers to make racist remarks at blacks.

 Elsie

From: Paul Finlow-Bates<wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2008.09.07 (04)[E]

However I remember workingin East London where little Afrikaans was spoken
("You live in Pretoria? how dounderstand them Afrikaners?").  Yet their
English was punctuated withAfrikaans expressions - "jy weet?", "nee, man"
and mostsentences ended with "ek se" (can't do the circumflex accent).

Paul Finlow-Bates

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