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Sneaker13

61. Posted: Wed 8th Jul 2009 14:49 BST

I had seen the Theron segment on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, but not the Janssen segment. I looked it up on youtube and it was very funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIMovBZjV0

You really see her looking like: Oh, how can you butcher my language like that?
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Famke: "It's really wrong."

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Rensch

62. Posted: Wed 8th Jul 2009 16:16 BST

Afrikaans is downright hilarious if you speak Dutch. Lots of words in Dutch are replaced with exact explanations of what they mean. For example, I found that the African word for "lemon" is "suurlimoen". This comes from the Dutch words "zuur" and "limoen" which mean "sour" and "lime" (not lemon, although they are very similar fruit), so the word "suurlimoen" is litteraly translated as "sourlime". And that is exactly what it is, a lime that tastes much more sour instead of bitter like a lime does.

Thanks to Afrikaans one of the most famous words that originates in Dutch is the word "apartheid".

Yeah, that kinda sucks.

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63. Posted: Wed 8th Jul 2009 16:22 BST

@Sneaker13: Afrikaans, not African. Afrikaans is the name of the language, which does have roots in dutch. "African" is what you could call a group of a couple hundred languages (including Igbo, my cultural one, and many other Bantu languages)

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64. Posted: Wed 8th Jul 2009 16:31 BST

@wanderlustwarrior. I think you meant to say this to Rensch ;).

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65. Posted: Wed 8th Jul 2009 18:47 BST

Rensch wrote:

Afrikaans is downright hilarious if you speak Dutch. Lots of words in Dutch are replaced with exact explanations of what they mean. For example, I found that the African word for "lemon" is "suurlimoen". This comes from the Dutch words "zuur" and "limoen" which mean "sour" and "lime" (not lemon, although they are very similar fruit), so the word "suurlimoen" is litteraly translated as "sourlime". And that is exactly what it is, a lime that tastes much more sour instead of bitter like a lime does.

Actually, 'lemoen' is afrikaans for an orange, not lime (which is 'lemmetjie' in afrikaans). So it's not really as redundant as you try and make it sound.

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Thanks to Afrikaans one of the most famous words that originates in Dutch is the word "apartheid".

If it originates in Dutch, then don't we have you to thank? ;) Seriously though, apartheid was a long time ago (15 years to be exact) so I don't see the need for you to bring it up.

Edited on Thu 9th July, 2009 @ 01:06 by JohnnyB

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66. Posted: Wed 8th Jul 2009 20:15 BST

JohnnyB wrote:

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I wanted to reply 'iie, anata no neko wa oishikatta', lol :3

Hahaha "No, your cat was delicious" ?
I would have said: "Iie, Malnin-chan no neko wa oishiku nai deshou"
Hahaha I hope that's correct!

looks all right, but you're being more polite about the cat than me, lol. don't worry, i ate enough for the both of us. ;)

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67. Posted: Wed 8th Jul 2009 21:12 BST

JohnnyB wrote:

Rensch wrote:

Afrikaans is downright hilarious if you speak Dutch. Lots of words in Dutch are replaced with exact explanations of what they mean. For example, I found that the African word for "lemon" is "suurlimoen". This comes from the Dutch words "zuur" and "limoen" which mean "sour" and "lime" (not lemon, although they are very similar fruit), so the word "suurlimoen" is litteraly translated as "sourlime". And that is exactly what it is, a lime that tastes much more sour instead of bitter like a lime does.

Actually, 'lemoen' is afrikaans for an orange, not lime (which is 'lemmetjie' in afrikaans). So it's not really as redundant as you try and make it sound.

Rensch wrote:

Thanks to Afrikaans one of the most famous words that originates in Dutch is the word "apartheid".

If it originates in Dutch, then don't we have you to thank? ;) Seriously though, apartheid was a long time ago (15 years to be exact) so I don't feel the need for you to bring it up.

Either way, Afrikaans is quite simply one of the most awesome languages there is.

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JohnnyB

68. Posted: Thu 9th Jul 2009 01:08 BST

theblackdragon wrote:

JohnnyB wrote:

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I wanted to reply 'iie, anata no neko wa oishikatta', lol :3

Hahaha "No, your cat was delicious" ?
I would have said: "Iie, Malnin-chan no neko wa oishiku nai deshou"
Hahaha I hope that's correct!

looks all right, but you're being more polite about the cat than me, lol. don't worry, i ate enough for the both of us. ;)

LOLOL X3

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69. Posted: Thu 9th Jul 2009 01:12 BST

Rensch wrote:

Either way, Afrikaans is quite simply one of the most awesome languages there is.

It seems I misunderstood you in your previous post, sorry :)

Edited on Thu 9th July, 2009 @ 01:15 by JohnnyB

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70. Posted: Thu 9th Jul 2009 01:20 BST

I don't know any foreign languages, but I plan to get My Japanese Coach, sometime.

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y2josh

71. Posted: Thu 9th Jul 2009 01:23 BST

I failed spanish in high school twice and no

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minihutchi

72. Posted: Sun 12th Jul 2009 19:30 BST

i speak:
german (4years at high school)
spanish (2 years so not very much)
japanese (3 years really hard but it got me to japan for 1 week awesome i tried ramen yummy) (:

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