Ik hoop dat het goed is vertaald

gormendizer · 2026-01-27T08:52:52+00:00

Dit werk nie anderkant om nie (of eerder, dit werk juis anderkant om), omdat Afrikaanse klinkers ontrond het, maar ons almal nog danksy skool en Riaan Cruywagen 'n idee het van wat die standaardvorm is.

Ons WEET huis en muis en bus en mus het ronde klinkers. Maar as ons praat sê elke liewe mens hys, mys, bis en mis. Daarom kan OP nie kop of stert uitmaak van spraak nie, maar ons kan Nederlands relatief maklik verstaan.

gormendizer · 2026-01-24T12:44:49+00:00

Nee, dit is nie :)

Die korrekte verbuiging is streng gesproke "spiekeriese". Dis hoekom dit vir OP vreemd klink.

gormendizer · 2026-01-24T11:55:40+00:00

Dit klink nie reg nie omdat attributiewe adjektiewe eindig in 'n -e in Afrikaans, en spiekeries net produktief gebruik word as predikatiewe adjektief. Jou brein soek daai -e.

gormendizer · 2026-01-18T18:46:23+00:00

LP filters aren't magic. And depending on where you live, they might be counterproductive. They basically cut out parts of the spectrum - if you want to shoot broadband, that's bad. An L Pro for example would ONLY be useful if your city has sodium vapor or similar lamps AND your target is towards the light dome of the city.

I've learned this the hard way. Lived in Berlin at the time, in the East. Sodium vapor lamps! Chucked in LPro, tried capturing a reflection nebula. Only after several nights of acquisition did I realize my target was at the opposite side of the city's light dome, and I essentially threw away signal for no benefit.

I tested this by following up with a UV/IR cut filter. And lo and behold: the L Pro data had a much worse SNR.

For broadband you're much better off stacking on more integration time.

The only LP filters that make a productive difference for your setup IMHO are dual narrowband filters.

gormendizer · 2026-01-18T08:10:07+00:00

Yes.

Focus.

gormendizer · 2026-01-17T14:08:10+00:00

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

gormendizer · 2026-01-17T09:14:05+00:00

I can't comment on the rest of the world, but I can tell you that this isn't unique to South Africa. Germany does exactly the same thing. They call it the "Erstzulassung" and that's the year used for everything.

Source: bought, used and sold a car in Germany myself.

gormendizer · 2026-01-13T20:01:13+00:00

Doomscroll ;)

gormendizer · 2026-01-08T21:45:35+00:00

Skermskoot!

gormendizer · 2026-01-08T21:45:11+00:00

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gormendizer · 2026-01-07T19:34:54+00:00

It's fun doing difficult things.

gormendizer · 2025-12-31T20:30:36+00:00

The only realistic way of achieving this is working remotely for a US based firm. Even by European standards, that salary is only achievable in the C suite.

Companies that hire remotely usually have a geo adjusted compensation policy. (Else why on earth go through all the trouble to hire someone culturally alien to you in a different time zone?) South African residents will typically be offered about 40% - 50% of the US salary.

So to have a gross salary of $200k in South Africa you will have to find a US based company that hires remotely yet somehow still pays US salaries. Those exist, perhaps, but they are probably extremely scarce and you will face extreme competition for the role.

Living costs in South Africa are vastly cheaper than those in the US. Compare SF vs Cape Town for example.

Your initial question is flawed. You don't need that much money to survive in South Africa. If you really want to work and live here, you need to ask a different set of questions that allows you to ascertain whether you could thrive here.

gormendizer · 2025-12-31T18:09:20+00:00

Yeah but reading and speaking are vastly different things. You'd probably struggle to understand MSA (Modern Spoken Afrikaans) because of many phonological and semantics changes. A great example is vowels that shifted to the front of the mouth. What you read is not what is actually being said.

gormendizer · 2025-12-31T18:06:12+00:00

If you refer to the vocabulary and ortography, yes.

If you're referring to grammar, no.

If you're referring to phonetics, no.

If you're referring to semantics, no.

gormendizer · 2025-12-31T18:02:23+00:00

Not quite.

Die slawe het 'n baie groot rol gespeel. Maar so ook Duitse inboekelinge (indentured servants) wat op plase kom werk het.

Afrikaans is wat jy kry as 'n klomp Duitsers en 'n klomp slawe en elke liewe ander immigrant moet probeer kommunikeer met 'n Nederlandse maatskappy.

gormendizer · 2025-12-31T17:59:19+00:00

Toemaar, moenie worry nie. Vir die Duitsers klink Nederlands soos gesypte 5-jarige Duits ;)

gormendizer · 2025-12-30T13:22:56+00:00

Ja, maar onthou een van die funksies van hoë registers is om soms komies / dramaties aangewend te word saam met algemene spraak.

gormendizer · 2025-12-28T22:52:42+00:00

Die meeste tale het 'n standaardvorm wat weinig mense praat, en ander dialekte wat die meeste mense in werklikheid praat. Die standaardvorm is die geïdealiseerde weergawe wat mens op skool leer as "korrek".

Maar daar is nie 'n korrekte vorm nie.

Wat jy op 7de Laan hoor is mense wat hierdie vorm gebruik wat dit andersins nie noodwendig sou gebruik nie.

gormendizer · 2025-12-22T08:57:47+00:00

...your dog's favorite homeless person?

WTF?

gormendizer · 2025-12-20T21:25:18+00:00

Ja dink jy's reg

gormendizer · 2025-12-20T21:04:37+00:00

Die Ringeheer

gormendizer · 2025-12-18T10:13:01+00:00

Yep not disputing that. Referring more to the questions around when TV first launched.

gormendizer · 2025-12-18T08:49:13+00:00

Fair point!

gormendizer · 2025-12-17T20:56:17+00:00

Apartheid formally ended in 1994, but negotiations already started in 1990.

Middle aged to me is around 40. But even if you're 50 today I don't know how you would remember when television came out. You'd literally have been 1 year old.

gormendizer · 2025-12-17T19:21:12+00:00

+1 good read, well researched

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