Group Announcement: This is No Longer a Private Group, Hippies.

[Scout]

What I've liked about this group from the beginning is its propensity for considering all opinions. For accepting a little bile without rancor. If I say something a member doesn't like, I don't think that should be met with an invitation to leave.

[[deleted user]]

I don't want you to leave, Scout, and you know it. We've had conversations away from here. You know that I just don't understand.

[Susan]

::Smiles so big it hurts::

[Aliyah]

who is whareverishisname? was this an ex TC member or a troll?

[[deleted user]]

Troll.

[Aliyah]

something that I want to point out is that my authenticity/sincerity seems to be in question. To everyone who reads my somewhat strange/odd comments, I tried to get my points across without typing too much to an audience that is mainly based in the US and UK. Therefore I make use of movie references and silly Americanisms and Britishisms. I realize that this makes me seem fake or a troll and childish. So I will be typing comments with the use of South African English. Sorry @ Amelia for reading/responding my comments in the other thread called "disappointments".

[Sarah]

Jy kan skryf in Afrikaans en sien of Janine of Jonathan verstaan​​.

[Phil]

I think I know what that says.

[Sarah]

I hope I do. I might have just asked janine and Jonathan to hogtie the asteroid.

[Susan]

Ha! That is fantastic!

[[deleted user]]

(view spoiler)["You can write in English and see if understand Janine Jonathan." (hide spoiler)]Was the translation I got. :)

[Sarah]

Amelia wrote: "[spoilers removed]Was the translation I got. :)"

I was close. Ten years with a South African and I can butcher a phrase with the best of them.

[Susan]

I liked hogtieing the asteroid. It is way cooler than lassoing the moon.

[[deleted user]]

Well, and allow for the errors of Google traslator!

[Aliyah]

lol do you know Afrikaans? I've always assumed that you were Latina or Greek-American. *Looks at surname * . My Afrikaans is nie goed nie, maar ek kan probeer om te gesels lekker in Afrikaans.

[Sarah]

Better than mine, I'm sure.

[Heidi]

Aliyah wrote: "lol do you know Afrikaans? I've always assumed that you were Latina or Greek-American. *Looks at surname * . My Afrikaans is nie goed nie, maar ek kan probeer om te gesels lekker in Afrikaans."

Pi spent quite a bit of time in South Africa. Kevin volunteers there fairly regularly, as well. :) I wish I could find it, but at one time Pi and Kevin talked about a brand of soda that she could only find in South Africa and the entire discussion fascinated the crap out of me.

[Sarah]

I think Kevin volunteers in Kenya. We either talked about Stoney or Iron Brew.

[Aliyah]

which parts of SA did you guys visit? I'm from Cape Town.

[janine]

Sarah Pi wrote: "I hope I do. I might have just asked janine and Jonathan to hogtie the asteroid."

Not sure what hogtying and asteroid entails, but yes, I can understand Afrikaans (in its written form at least).

[janine]

This song in Afrikaans is pretty great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNkrDC...

[[deleted user]]

Yesh, Iron Brew. That was popular in England as well. I never cared for it, but lots of my friends did.

[Sarah]

Aliyah wrote: "which parts of SA did you guys visit? I'm from Cape Town."

My wife's family is in Durban and in Centurion, between Pretoria and Joburg. I've been around KZN and Gauteng and Mpumalanga. I've never been to Cape Town though I'd like to go.

[[deleted user]]

Aliyah wrote: "which parts of SA did you guys visit? I'm from Cape Town."

I have a friend that lives in Somerset West. Actually, I used to babysit her when she was a little girl. She did Peace Corps in Uganda after college and fell in love with a boy from SA. :)

[Sarah]

Barb wrote: "I'm in love with the fact that Sarah can now say "my wife".
That is all. Carry on."

:)
That's still complicated here despite Maryland's step forward, but we were married in your fine country six years ago.

[Jonathan]

I can't understand spoken Afrikaans at all, but I am sometimes able to understand simple written constructions insofar as they resemble standard Dutch--a language that I tend to mangle a bit, although I do enjoy trying to use it when the occasion arises.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Jonathan wrote: "I can't understand spoken Afrikaans at all, but I am sometimes able to understand simple written constructions insofar as they resemble standard Dutch--a language that I tend to mangle a bit, altho..."

Jonathan, asseblief swiff die voorste saal. Wanneer jy klaar is met dit, kan jy die badkamer vloer mop en vee die kolwyntjie krummels van die kombuistafel. Daar is ook 'n vrag van brandhout wat geneem moet word van die dek by die wynkelder.

[Susan]

You people never cease to amaze.

[Jonathan]

Am I your cleaning crew now, LG?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I thought you'd never ask.

[Jonathan]

'tuurlijk.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Вы должны будете нести свой собственный диафрагмы.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Ein-nay.

[evie]

Hatwa heta uckfa? Owwa!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Is that aboriginal?

[Susan]

Evie!

[Jonathan]

I'm halfway through a bottle of Riesling, so maybe I'm a little slow here--but I'm pretty sure we've moved past the Dutch/Flemish/Afrikaans language groups.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Try a Gewürztraminer. They make you more intelligent!

[Jonathan]

I'll keep that in mind.

[CD]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Ein-nay."
Hmmmm . . .

Schwein latein, das ist gnadenlos.

[evie]

What's a 7 footer?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

::waits::

[evie]

I know.

[Susan]

::taps foot::

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

::strokes chin::

[Susan]

::looks at nails::

[evie]

::plucks a chin hair::

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

::stares idly at phone::

[Susan]

::texts::

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

::writes libretto for new opera with score by Jay-Z::