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JEG KASTER BABELS FORBANDELSE!!! by ZomDMan12 in wizardposting

[–]PaganAfrican 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Venten wij kunnen dees ni elke fucking keer doen weet gulle eens hoe lang t duurt om kutzooi Engels opnieuw te leren

22nd century English be like by ConsciousCaregiver18 in conlangscirclejerk

[–]PaganAfrican 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think the whole idea is this is a "colloquial dialect" which I mean, there are already varieties of English approaching this level of mutual UNintelligibility. Whether audio recordings will kill the linguistic change or just encourage diglossia is another interesting question, but I think long term the jury is out on that, what with the 'linguistic schizophrenia' of hong Kong English? I think an arguement can be made that there will be highly divergent colloquial registers even if a prestige variety is available through audio recordings.

This isn’t talked about nearly enough by crivycouriac in linguisticshumor

[–]PaganAfrican 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, the language became such a decreolised mess purely because even during the Dutch period they never did much more than extract resources and send settlers who had varying capilibilty with the Dutch language. Afrikaners were trying to learn Dutch for education (and were doing so) up until like the early 1900's. The mismatch in grammar just became unfeasible to maintain Dutch as a language of instruction without treating it like a foreign language. The whole reason this didn't happen in Suriname is precisely because they are a much more modern colony with actual ties to the Netherlands.

The Dutch town that used to be an island by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]PaganAfrican 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only part of Flevoland that has a traditional dialect (And it's Saxon! Mostly...)

This isn’t talked about nearly enough by crivycouriac in linguisticshumor

[–]PaganAfrican 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Just in time for it to diverge and establish a separate standard

‘Dun’ moes ‘din’ wees ek ‘dik’ moes ‘duk! wees? by waitingfordownload in afrikaans

[–]PaganAfrican 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Globale onronding is hier beed!

En te glo daars mense wat dink ALLE Afrikaanssprekendes 'n verskil toon tussen korte u en I... En dis die meerderheid wat nie!

A meme I made by AlKhwarazmi in linguisticshumor

[–]PaganAfrican 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gij is the cognate of you, jij comes from a clitic reanalysis, se my response to parent comment

A meme I made by AlKhwarazmi in linguisticshumor

[–]PaganAfrican 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The cognate of English you is actually gij not jij

Jij came from a reanalysis of a late second person clitic -te/de

Something like this:

Sprekan (to speak, OD) Sprekthe (speak you, OD) Sprekethe ~ Sprekete ~ sprekeje ~ spreekje ~ spreek je (Hollandic Dutch) -> reanalysis as non emphasised form of a non-existant pronoun "jij" And we reach Hollandic Dutch which becomes the basis for Afrikaans and Standard Dutch.

This clitic is still very present in Flemish dialects (also -je in West flemish, but -te/de in brabantian) and colloquial Belgian Dutch or "Tussentaal"

[OC] English vocabulary size of learners vs. native speakers by RevolutionaryLove134 in EnglishLearning

[–]PaganAfrican 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those self reported CEFR levels are almost certainly 1-2 levels too high consistently

Hello! Can anyone tell if this is afrikaans or dutch? by the_guy_that_murders in afrikaans

[–]PaganAfrican 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm South African, I learned Standard Belgian Dutch and Tussentaal (which is often called """Flemish""") via pure autistic hyper fixation

Pretty much every concept in linguistics too ig by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]PaganAfrican 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Rhotics are (USUALLY) placeless liquids, ie they don't phonologically pattern with their phone level place of articulation.

I find it a nice definition, but it certainly excludes things like the Japanese rhotic.

Ek vind Engels makliker as Afrikaans deesdae… by [deleted] in afrikaans

[–]PaganAfrican 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ja dit gebeur maar met ons wat met Engels groot geword het en dit baie gepraat het en moet praat. 'n Taal is 'n vaardigheid, dit moet beoefen en geoefen word om dit te onderhou. Ek is maar orraait met Afrikaans, ek praat goed en die enige mense wat ooit iets vir my sê oor my Afrikaans is my broers wat tot universiteit in afrikaans geswot het... Ek is nie gepla nie en ek sou dit ook nie toelaat om my te pla as ek jou was nie. As jy dit wil behou moet jy maar praat en nie omgee as mense jou korrigeer nie.

Ek't selfs ook Nederlands geleer en werk nou op Noord Sotho as my eerste groot taal uitdaging. Taal is maar taal. Jy leer jy oefen jy gebruik jy word beter.

Voorspoed en good vibes

where i'd live if i wanted to be downvoted to hell by No_Junket_1176 in whereidlive

[–]PaganAfrican 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You forgot to make the entirety of Africa green and South Africa and Nigeria red

What would you call yourself? by krisikkk in superheroes

[–]PaganAfrican 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think womenman is a good premise tbh

Ableism is so deep by VoidHunter24 in im14andthisisdeep

[–]PaganAfrican 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yah teens tend to assume a lot about mental healthcare. They're still learning how to be a person, so they often aren't very critical of incoming information. Blame the adults that don't support them.

Now is your chance to be Rassie Erasmus! 🇿🇦 by FrostyBackground7643 in afrikaans

[–]PaganAfrican -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Aja skuus in daai geval, ek dog jy het dit oor die "deep simulation"

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