"Instead of speaking proper Dutch..."
March 10, 2009 3:04 PM Subscribe
Chris Chameleon is an Afrikaans musician who talks a bit about his native language's origins in this intro to his song Klein Klein Jakkalsies.
Note: I speak neither Afrikaans nor Dutch. I can not be held responsible for anything said in the lyrics.
Note: I speak neither Afrikaans nor Dutch. I can not be held responsible for anything said in the lyrics.
Have you ever noticed how people from North Edinburgh golf like this... and people from south Edinburg golf... like this?!
posted by phylum sinter at 3:45 PM on March 10, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by phylum sinter at 3:45 PM on March 10, 2009 [1 favorite]
I loved this post, thank you grapefruitmoon! Dutch people are familiar with the differences between Netherlands-Dutch and Belgium-Dutch, but Afrikaans usually leaves us bewonderd. It is a beautiful language. Why would you borrow a word like make-up from English when you can have "mooimaakgoed"?
I wondered if there were any common things between Afrikaans and forms of Dutch that are spoken spoken by specific groups, like Moroccan-Dutch people, and found this interesting article (in Dutch) which says that indeed there are common grammatical characteristics.
posted by davar at 1:00 AM on March 11, 2009
I wondered if there were any common things between Afrikaans and forms of Dutch that are spoken spoken by specific groups, like Moroccan-Dutch people, and found this interesting article (in Dutch) which says that indeed there are common grammatical characteristics.
posted by davar at 1:00 AM on March 11, 2009
Thanks PenDevil. I figured out "klein," but spent half an hour trying to google "jakkalsies" and all I came up with was lyrics to the song... in Afrikaans. Which was kind of no help.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 4:24 AM on March 11, 2009
posted by grapefruitmoon at 4:24 AM on March 11, 2009
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mooimaakgoed = make pretty stuff = cosmetics
moltrein = mole train = subway
baie koud (buy a coat) = very cold
baie dankie (buy a donkey) = thank you very much
Afrikaners is plesierig = Afrikaners are pleasant
Klein klein jakkalsies = Little jackals
posted by PenDevil at 3:38 PM on March 10, 2009 [1 favorite]