During the winter months sometimes the tempature drops but in the summer months it rises. Google translate is good. Afrikaans comes out of Dutch and the other tribal languages.
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 6:07 PM Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, July 24, 2020 9:14:36 AM EDT Martin Vlietstra wrote: > > A quick note about my experience in South Africa. Please read it > carefully: > > > > > > > > Ek het in Suid Afrika groot geword. In Johannesburg, tydens die > > wintermaande dal die temperatuur soms tot -5°C maar in die somermaande > styg > > did tot 35°C. > > > > > > > > Did you understand what I wrote? Probably not, but I suspect that most > Brits > > could pick out three items – "Johannesburg", "-5°C" and "35°C" so they > > could hazard a guess what I was writing about. The British are probably > as > > monolingual as the Americans, but how many Americans would understand > > "-5°C" and "35°C"? This is a very good reason to use the International > > System of Units. > > I can also pick out "wintermaande", "temperatuur", and "somermaande". > Adding > what I know of German, I can understand everything except "tydens" (which > I > suspect has something to do with tide or time), "dal", "soms", "maar" > (which I > happen to know from the knappe kapper tonguetwister), and "styg did" (I > suspect that "did" does not mean "did"). I am not monolingual, but my > second > and third native languages are Romance, which doesn't help. German is my > fourth, and first non-native, language. > > Pierre > -- > I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wales. > > > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >
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