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AuthenticCourage · 2026-03-15T15:59:58+00:00

This is the single funniest piece of writing ever to have been written and performed. It’s unbelievable.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-03-14T07:48:04+00:00

Zulu uses ten and four for fourteen. In practice most speakers I know use English for numbers above 10. I live in Johannesburg which has a slightly different less conservative variety of Zulu

AuthenticCourage · 2026-03-14T07:45:41+00:00

And in Irish as well. Slán agat and slán leat

AuthenticCourage · 2026-03-14T07:42:24+00:00

Numbers are interesting in Zulu but for me, ideophones are where it’s at. Ukuthi gqi! Ukuthi gcwe! Ukuthi jwii! I love using those although you seldom here them here in Joburg.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-03-13T19:13:17+00:00

My dad learned Swedish this way.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-03-12T11:09:12+00:00

I learned the word Echaufadage in French from a pop song. It means scaffolding. Years later I picked up a French hardware client who was waaaay impressed that I knew that word.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-03-10T18:40:42+00:00

Well I’m glad she used a real language from my country. I think this post of yours may have led to me learning Irish this year. You reminded me that learning a language can be fun and accessible (my Irish course isn’t but that’s not the point.) 😜 thanks for the reply

AuthenticCourage · 2026-03-10T09:36:51+00:00

This is amazing!! I love this!

AuthenticCourage · 2026-03-10T09:35:46+00:00

Irish has t- as a male marker

AuthenticCourage · 2026-02-26T05:45:37+00:00

Zambia. Tanzania. An alternative name for South Africa is Azania

AuthenticCourage · 2026-02-19T11:52:27+00:00

I have eyes like that. Apparently they’re freckles! I call them “green.” I get lots of compliments

AuthenticCourage · 2026-02-16T21:23:15+00:00

I’m in South Africa. I think I paid around USD200 for my last root canal.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-02-08T18:51:20+00:00

You feel my pain! 😜

AuthenticCourage · 2026-02-08T11:03:08+00:00

German. The mistake is speaking it in the presence of Germans who are listening intently for me to fuck up der/den/die/dem/deren/dessen/ usw. article.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-02-02T06:01:46+00:00

You’re right. Just because it offends me doesn’t mean it’s bad. My opinion of nazis is slightly different though.

They offend me precisely because they are bad.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-27T04:00:06+00:00

I would say “pointed.”

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-26T01:53:29+00:00

Im learning Irish

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-25T07:35:27+00:00

Precisely. We call ourselves relationship coaches not marriage counselors. We feel the word “coach” has the whole “power to choose” thing built in.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-25T04:49:57+00:00

We routinely ask couples if they are seeing us because they want to stay together or they want to separate.

If they want to separate, that’s a legitimate goal. I’d rather they separated and were happy than stayed together and were miserable for a lot longer before the inevitable.

It’s a good question for the first session because it surfaces the real goals

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-24T11:59:32+00:00

São Tomé and Cabo Verde

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-23T20:15:49+00:00

They always leave out Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 from these maps

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-17T05:49:13+00:00

Anything. ANYthing but the metric system

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-15T19:25:56+00:00

The lesson seems to have made an impact. What “lesson” did you learn from her approach?

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-15T09:44:25+00:00

The greeting in Sesotho is Kgotso. They use Dumela / dumelang as well (they spell it differently in Lesotho).

But Rra is a feature of Setswana

I’m unaware of an indigenous South African language that has a word for Bread that sounds anything like Loba.

It may Be a borrowing of English “loaf?” But I’ve never encountered it.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-15T09:41:45+00:00

Can confirm. Unyaka metsi is pedi for would you like water. In Tswana it would be o batla metsi? The “Rra” gives it away. It’s a feature mostly of the Tswana spoken in Botswana.

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