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Old 21st October 2007, 01:55
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In the first place, that expression is more Kaapsevlakte Gamtaal than Afrikaans. It is amazing what happens when a language is spoken by mostly functionally illiterate people; it's almost as if the grammar rules become slack and simplified. I guess you've never spoken Afrikaans on the Cape Flats or you'd know that expressions like that are usually meant in jest.

Secondly, being a moderator does not make one have to give up their gutter sense of humour, it makes it incumbent upon one to remove and prevent personal attacks, flame wars, trolling and spam. I suggest you, as a moderator, should keep that in mind and go to a PM the next time you want to pick a fight with me.

Finally, I did not ever, once, call Afrikaans speakers or Afrikaners ignorant. I called the early Boers, prior to the arrival of the British, during a time of anarchy at the Cape and particularly in the Southeast Cape (i.e. beyond Swellendam) for the most part illiterate, which they were. It is a matter of historical fact, no doubt glossed over in an apartheid-era Afrikaners-are-God's-Chosen-People education. It is neither treason, heresy nor bad manners to regurgitate historical facts.
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