Apparently Afrikaans is the bastard child of English and Dutch, my
South African friends have a whole list of native words they think are
ridiculous in their language.
I had watched a movie about South Africa called "Tsotsi" .Among else ,i also strongly recommend it for the language.
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "
--- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996)
Hmm, Afrikaans probably has more African influence and as much Portugese and Asian influence as it does English. An English/Dutch hybrid it is not. IIRC its based largely around an older varient of teh S. Hollands dialect, mixed with other influences, and then left to mature for a few centuries.
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