Excuse me, I ment ofcourse Afrikaans and not South-African. Sidenote: I occasianaly listen to Die Heuvels Fantasies & Jack Parow, any other good music you know of that is in Afrikaans?
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Boudewijn Smidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Lance, my understanding of South-African is that it is more a > derivative from Dutch than any other language. Not doubting where your > heritage lies, but Buitendag sounds more Dutch than German to me. > Since they it's a combination of 2 words spelled exactly the same in > Dutch (buiten & dag) and translating those words to german it would > look like Austag. My returning on this subject is because it > fascinates me. I like languages and their history and also my father > has lived in former Rhodesia and South-Africa. > > Boudewijn > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Paul Maynard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> ________________________________ >> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 11:14:36 -0500 >> Subject: New "get to know you" question >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> >> Who is everyone? For instance: age, location, job, family, outside >> interests? >> >> >> I'm 25 and live in Birmingham, England. I work as a Business >> Developer/Account Manager for an air conditioning company (with the focus >> very much turning toward heating now - about 9C here today!). Holding off on >> the marriage/kids stuff until I've lived a bit more for myself, I have a >> ridiculously busy social life which I don't feel like giving up just yet! My >> family is pretty close-knit with grandparents/aunts/cousins all living >> within a 10 mile radius. >> >> I've a big interest in football (actual FOOTball, haha) being a season >> ticket holder for Aston Villa F.C and also playing myself at least twice a >> week which at the moment is just about keeping me in some kind of decent >> shape in it's war with my terrible diet. I've also been a Patriots fan since >> my friend got me in to NFL back in 2007. I'm rarely without a book, and I'm >> an avid film fan - to date this year I've watched over 60 films at my local >> cinema. >> >> Paul >> >> >> >
