about the mongoose

[daniel]

BOOOOOOOOOOYAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yah i know wut a boer is....studied about it in history class......the boer war...u guys lost eh???

took some canadians lives.............but the boer war is important bcause they were the first war to employ modern gurillea tactics

[bob_fox]

Hey, my ancestors are Swedish, Belgian and English (and I think German), so what do mean we lost? I'm not an Afrikaner or a Dutchman.

[niels]

im dutch, but i wasnt fighting there, nor do i care those boers lost :P

[daniel]

just stating a fact :(

[bob_fox]

It is a fact, I know. The British won both Anglo-Boer wars, but I'm not a Boer, and you said that 'you guys (you counted me among 'you guys') lost'.

(It's amazing what discussions you can have on a Dune site, isn't that so, Gob?)

[quoudam72]

Errr ummmm Moidib a dike is......a.......wall that holds water kinda like a dam Holland has alot of dikes because of all the water-works and stuff like that.

[Acriku]

Ok thanks ;)

[quoudam72]

The mongoose are also the enemy of the cobra or I guess you could say snakes in general.;D

[daniel]

i never really thought about that!!!!!!!!!!!!

kewl :)

[bob_fox]

A quick rundown of the Afrikaans pronouns (Afrikaans - voornaamwoorde) is in order for our new Afrikaans fans.

ek - I, me

jy - you (subject)

jou - you (object), your

ons - we, us

julle - you (plural)

hulle - them

hy - he

sy - his, she

haar - her

[Acriku]

Does Afrikaans have conjugations and/or declensions? Or is it just a simple language?

[bob_fox]

I don't know if I'd call it a simple language. (Of course, this depends to which languages you are comparing it. If you are comparing it to Latin it's simple, but then again, so is English (compared again to Latin, that is).) It's probably easier to learn than English, because Afrikaans sticks to its rules, unlike English which has exceptions to every rule.

Declensions? Yes, to a certain degree. It has the masculine and feminine forms of nouns, if that's what you're specifically refering to. One common mistake (for people whose home language is not Afrikaans (a group of which I am part)) is to mix up "hy" and "sy". Hy means he. (Hy is Peter - He is Peter.) Sy means his or she. (Sy is Mary - She is Mary; Sy naam is Peter - His name is Peter.)

Afrikaans does not have a different form of the verb for denoting the plural form. (Dit is daar - It is there; Hulle is hier - They are here.)

However, as I have said before I do not know enough about Afrikaans, since I've only studied it as a second language.

[Acriku]

Alrighty thanks, and yes I know how Latin can be, lotsa stuff to memorize and lotsa stuff to apply. Taking Latin III this year, which should be hard as heck. Anyways, lol how did this thread get this long...

[cyclonus]

Emperor and latin don't mix.

[Acriku]

Emperor is english which derived from Latin. There is always a connection, you just have to find it...

[Guest Ordos_Yogurt]

Oh REALLY? I knew that.

[daniel]

howd this get so long.......well its the only message board with testiclse and drunk guys with their pants off and biting that gob has not banned yet....lol  ;D 8)