about the mongoose

[Guest girish]

i dont know if you guys know about this but back home ( im from south africa ) - the mongoose is a really *twisted* mammal - its main form of defense if attacked or harassed is ...( guess what ..) to aim for the testicles !!!!! it will simply jump and try to rip em off

well it actually really happened before..

well i thoughtmaybe you guys would like to know..

[quoudam72]

That's why you should not bully the little guy.

[Acriku]

Um.....ow? Geez that's gotta suck.

[daniel]

suck???u mean bite.......

[Acriku]

That, too.

[bob_fox]

Great! Somebody just has to come to this message board and be disgusting. Jy is mos 'n skelem.

[Acriku]

Jy is mos 'n skelem.

Whaaaa?

[daniel]

yo girish this ever happen to u before???

[bob_fox]

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Jy is mos 'n skelem.

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Whaaaa?

He he he! It's Afrikaans. It became an official South African language sometime in the 1930's. It was developed by the Dutch people living in South Africa. It is very similar to Dutch in most ways, one exception being that they don't use the letter "z" as often (in fact, they hardly use it at all).

[quoudam72]

Sven that's just great but what the heck does it mean? Teach us some Dutch Afrikaan.

[Guest girish]

no it never happened to me before but one bum was attacked ( he was apparently drunk ...) and also some bulls..

[peseverance]

No then an animal that attacks testicles --------> It's smart

[niels]

jij bent niet een ? kan het niet verstaan zo.

[daniel]

drunk eh.......wut was he doing with his pants off?????..........................dat probably explains WHY................yah and dat animal is REALLY smart ............i should teach my dog that.......hehehehehehe

[daniel]

jij bent niet een ? kan het niet verstaan zo.

wwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttttttttttt??????????????????????????????

SVEn please translate thnxz

[Acriku]

Wouldn't you want to ask nStilgar to translate it instead of Sven? Hmmm.

[daniel]

um..........sven was the one who translated it whats his name just puts in a whole bunch of gibberish .............

[Acriku]

How do you know that's Afrikaan though? Could be anything, but hopefully nStilgar or someone would inform us.

[daniel]

yah.........im really troubled by this wrd......my life depends on it (jokes)

[niels]

I was trying to translate the afrikaans into dutch, but i cant completely.

[bob_fox]

What I meant was: Jy is mos 'n skelm (added in an "e" by mistake)

Direct translation: You are indeed a rogue (or knave). (Skelm here more means "low life" or some insult like that. I'm really conveying an Afrikaans expression, so it's difficult to translate.)

I'm not trying to be nasty (someone will probably get angry), but Afrikaans is sort of Slang Dutch. Did you hear of that computer mouse called a Boomslang. Boomslang is Afrikaans for Tree Snake. If you split the Boom and the Slang words. Apparently I think one of the designers was South African.)

[Acriku]

Very intriguing Sven.

[quoudam72]

Cool now that we know how to speak slang Dutch when do we get to stick our fingers in the dike? ;D

[Acriku]

Whatsa dike? Is that like UK slang or something?

[bob_fox]

I was never good at Afrikaans at school. So don't ask me to teach you. Ask a Boer. People from the UK may know who a Boer is. The British I think pronounced it "boo-a" (got this info from some TV program), but it is actually pronounced more like "boor" with a very strong "r". Boer just means farmer in Afrikaans. Anyway, I thought I'd just give you some information on South Africa.