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Started by Trevor, October 13, 2014, 01:12:56 AM

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Olivia Bauer

#30
October 29, 2014, 11:21:57 AM
Quote from: Trevor on October 13, 2014, 01:12:56 AM
Jou ma se ouma-grootjie se tottie se punt: All I can say is that this is a devastating insult.  :buggedout: :buggedout:

Tried Googling that. First result I found was the print-friendly version of this thread.

Trevor

#31
November 10, 2014, 03:58:03 AM
Quote from: A.J. Bauer on October 29, 2014, 11:21:57 AM
Quote from: Trevor on October 13, 2014, 01:12:56 AM
Jou ma se ouma-grootjie se tottie se punt: All I can say is that this is a devastating insult.  :buggedout: :buggedout:

Tried Googling that. First result I found was the print-friendly version of this thread.

It means "your mother's great-grandmother was a hermaphrodite"  and the 'Punt' part of it refers to the tip of a male organ (tottie)  :buggedout: :buggedout: :teddyr:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Trevor

#32
November 10, 2014, 03:59:01 AM
Next word: vrot (pronounced fraught) - meaning rotten or stinky.  :buggedout:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

BoyScoutKevin

#33
November 10, 2014, 05:12:56 PM
Quote from: Trevor on November 10, 2014, 03:59:01 AM
Next word: vrot (pronounced fraught) - meaning rotten or stinky.  :buggedout:

And considering how often you say you change your underwear, probably the most overused word in the Afrikaans. "Vrot!"

Trevor

#34
November 12, 2014, 06:14:40 AM
Quote from: BoyScoutKevin on November 10, 2014, 05:12:56 PM
Quote from: Trevor on November 10, 2014, 03:59:01 AM
Next word: vrot (pronounced fraught) - meaning rotten or stinky.  :buggedout:

And considering how often you say you change your underwear, probably the most overused word in the Afrikaans. "Vrot!"

:teddyr: :teddyr:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Trevor

#35
November 12, 2014, 06:16:17 AM
Next phrase: "I am Groot!" as per BrotherAkira's thread.

This translates to Afrikaans as Ek Is Groot [grew-wert]: meaning I am big.  :teddyr:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Trevor

#36
November 12, 2014, 07:44:51 AM
Movie titles:

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: NAG VAN DIE LEWENDE DOOD
THE WILD GEESE: DIE WILDE GANSE
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT: IN DIE HITTE VAN DIE AAND
A PASSAGE TO INDIA: 'N RIT NA INDIE
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Trevor

#37
November 17, 2014, 12:25:59 AM
Word of the day: poephol [poop-hall]

The greatest compliment you could ever give a South African.  :wink:

Not really, it means "a-hole": poep meaning fart and hol meaning hole, in other words, fart hole.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Trevor

#38
November 19, 2014, 07:53:32 AM
Word of the day: poegaai [poo-gha-eye] meaning absolutely and totally exhausted.  :smile:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Trevor

#39
November 21, 2014, 02:25:03 AM
Word of the day: onderbroek [or-nerr-brook]: meaning - underpants.  :wink:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Trevor

#40
November 26, 2014, 12:23:56 AM
Word of the day: bliksem [bleurk-sim]: meaning to hit so hard that the hittee will remember well or not, as the case may be.  :buggedout:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Bushma

#41
May 24, 2015, 05:53:36 AM
How about "One Hamburger and a beer"?
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Trevor

#42
May 25, 2015, 12:57:03 AM
Quote from: Bushma on May 24, 2015, 05:53:36 AM
How about "One Hamburger and a beer"?

:buggedout: :buggedout:

Oy, I be so busted.

I had to google the word hamburger and see what is the Afrikaans word for it: the answer is hamburger - there is no Afrikaans word for it. Strange: a hot dog is "worsbroodjie" (sausage bread) but no word for hamburger.  :teddyr: :teddyr:

So that phrase translated is 'Een hamburger en 'n bier".  :drink:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Trevor

#43
May 26, 2015, 09:03:35 AM
Phrase of the day: "Jou Ma se hare!" [yo mar se hah-re]

Untranslatable term of verbal abuse.  :buggedout: :wink:
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Jim H

#44
October 14, 2015, 11:29:16 PM
I know this hasn't been updated in a long time.  How about a few good aphorisms?  I'm sure there's some very colorful ones.   :thumbup:
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