A little bit of brie

[SurfQueen]

voetsek jou bliksem

Is dit hoe jy met a dame praat? Skaam vir jou!

ROTFL

[norrahe]

Or you could just ask "is Afrikaans just Dutch with a funny accent?", see how far that gets ya

[TykeMerc]

Or you could just ask "is Afrikaans just Dutch with a funny accent?", see how far that gets ya

Or call it "Kitchen Dutch", I was told by a lad from the Transvaal that it annoyed some folks

[OwlHoot]

Try saying "jou ma se Poes" to the first person you see in the morning. It's a friendly greeting, particularly in Cape Town.

Yes, they'll be flattered you're trying to learn Afrikaans. It's their equivalent of "your Aunt's pen".

[Scruff]

I never knew that were so many Saffas on CUK. Julle is almal 'n klomp naaiers!

[norrahe]

I never knew that were so many Saffas on CUK. Julle is almal 'n klomp naaiers!

En jij ook!

Ik spreek echte nederlands niet keuken nederlands

[EternalOptimist]

They took to me as soon as I told them I have a laager mentality.

Just came in from the verandah , watching a dozen whales go by in line astern. This is St Helena bay in the Western Cape, we got the best place in town for 90£ a night.

Flock after flock of cormorants? Go sweeping across the bay, uncountable thousands, then turn and come back again, skimming the wave tops

Beer is a pound a pint and ver ver strong. Mrs eo is on the cherry chock wine and strawberry gateaux, tonight I will have cheese and pickles on kips.
Which are like ritz biscuits, but flavoured with bacon

[EternalOptimist]

A nice turn of phrase--

I was chatting to a white guy up in winterton, near the battlefields. I told him I had wandered into the rough bar at the end of town.
He was aghast,
the Zulus man, you were lucky to get out with more then your underpants. Them blokes will rob everything you got, and a lot of things you didn't know you got


Which I thought was a nice turn of phrase