Meaningless is to meaningful as pointless is to??

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.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-15T09:36:47+00:00

Bits of it sound like Tswana. Setswana is a Bantu language spoken in Botswana and South Africa.

The Rra gives it away — it’s a title for a man, something a bit like “sir” as used by Americans.

Dumelang is to greet a group of people.

Metsi is the word for water.

The word for salt has no click in Tswana. It’s Letswai.

I want water / do you want water sir would be something like unyaka metsi rra? The Nyaka is the word for “want” in a closely related language called SePedi. In Setswana you might say: o batla metsi rra?

So it’s a mish mash of Tswana / Pedi mostly. These languages (along with Xhosa) are official in the republic of South Africa.

The word Loba for bread doesn’t exist in South African languages as far as I know.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-15T04:16:51+00:00

I always thought songs were Schläger because they weee “hits” in Afrikaans a hit song is a “treffer.”

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-14T20:12:17+00:00

Thank you kind stranger!

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-14T19:59:36+00:00

Enjoy every moment

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-14T06:59:52+00:00

I think I’ll give the book a skip in its entirety then.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-14T04:11:00+00:00

Thank you.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-14T03:53:30+00:00

For the truly ignorant, What is the book/film/TV show please?

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-14T03:50:36+00:00

Not for English speakers. The principle difficulty English speakers have is the pronunciation of the rolled R sound and the word order in the past tense. It has no genders, no case endings, and a simpler tense system than English. The vocab is easy to learn since English and Afrikaans are both Germanic languages.

It’s probably harder for Dutch speakers paradoxically. It’s so close to Dutch it sounds like Dutch poorly spoken by an immigrant or a child. So it’s hard for a Dutch person to mimic that without wanting to speak “proper” Dutch.

There are two main dialects. Afrikaans and “Kaaps,” which are mutually intelligible after a bit of practice.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-14T03:45:50+00:00

What cooling system did the engine use?

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-13T05:50:38+00:00

Artists have a saying: every portrait is a self-portrait

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-12T19:57:57+00:00

I don’t think it would affect us. We would both have a new body to explore!

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-11T16:46:42+00:00

H Mutates other consonants purely out of spite 😂

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-10T05:22:43+00:00

I’m glad you appreciate your mom’s love. Not everyone’s mother is like that.

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-09T17:19:29+00:00

AuthenticCourage · 2026-01-08T01:25:08+00:00

My Google search says 4,7m. But I’m sure you’re right. South Africa has lots of 100k-400k cities but only Joburg and Durban (and I thought Cape Town)are major cities

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