South African lingo from CNN

[Jonathan Lighter]

A typical media-style rundown from last summer:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/06/15/gorani.wc.safrica.lingo.bilchik.cnn

The finishing handshake, supposedly routine in SA (yeah, right), is very
much like the "jive" handshake I learned at NYU, on a different continent,
in 1971 or '72. That one, however, was slightly more advanced, as it
involved touching and pivoting on the thumbs.

JL

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