“My mother’s language is Sotho. My father’s is Zulu. I learned Xhosa and Ndebele from my friends and neighbors, and English and Afrikaans from school. I can speak well all of the languages mentioned above. I went to Germany before I came here, so I also speak a little German,” ...
Afrikaans is a child of the Dutch language. Birthed from the initial contact between the first Dutch settlers and African natives on the southwest coast of modern Cape Town, Afrikaans was originally known as “Cape Dutch.” This creole is now considered contentious and divisive, mostly due to t...
Pennsylvania Dutchis generally not a written language. However, some attempts have been made to transcribe the language to a written form. Dictionaries have been compiled and some books written in the dialect. The language is a variety of German which also incorporates some English words – partic...
The boys talked to each other in Afrikaans (a language used among a portion of the white population in South Africa). They eyed Nina with obvious appreciation—her voluptuous shape and tall Nordic blondeness were captivating. I was far shorter, with freckles and sturdy socked-legs. As the bo...
(Afrikaans):the policy of strict racial segregation and discrimination against the native Negroes and other colored peoples as practiced in South Africa 18.poncho(American Spanish):a c10ak like a blanket with a hole i11 the middle for the head,worn in Spanish America. 19.strafe(Germa...
What is Drummer Hodge? 'Drummer Hodge' is perhaps Hardy's most famous poem about war and soldiers, although its language and imagery call for a bit of analysis to be fully understood. ... In summary, the poem focuses on the burial of Hodge,a drummer in the British army fighting in the...
Constructing an inclusive speech community from two mutually excluding ones: the third Afrikaans language movement More results ► Acronyms browser ? ▲ ATJO ATJRC ATJRN ATJRT ATJS ATJSE ATJT ATJTr ATJTu ATJVA ATK ATKC ATKF ATKHB ATKHC ATKHEL ATKI ATKIS ATKK ATKM ATKPOS ATKRON AT...
note that we’re still in the process of expanding language/region support of the new Cortana app (as discussed here), and Insiders outside of English (United States) will see a message when launching Cortana saying “Cortana isn’t available.” We’ update you when the availability ...
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If there is a universal moral grammar, then there should be universally held principles. If these principles operate like those underlying language, then not only will we be unconscious of their role in generating moral judgments, but they will be inaccessible to us. Recovery, then, comes only...