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Cute Illustrations Of Directly Translated Afrikaans Words
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Cute Illustrations Of Directly Translated Afrikaans Words

Robyn O
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I live in South Africa, and one of the most spoken languages (out of the 11) here is Afrikaans. It’s a great language with some interesting words.

I did some funny illustrations of direct translations of Afrikaans compound words that mean something completely different.

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Robyn O

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I am an animator, illustrator and motion graphics designer from Johannesburg, South Africa. I love cats and other similarly adorable creatures, bright colours and sparkly things, scary and macabre stuff, and reading.

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I am an animator, illustrator and motion graphics designer from Johannesburg, South Africa. I love cats and other similarly adorable creatures, bright colours and sparkly things, scary and macabre stuff, and reading.

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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was hoping, as someone who also understands Dutch, to find my favourite Afrikaans word translated, namely: verkleurmannetje. For those not in the know, it's Afrikaans for Chameleon and literally means "changing colour little man"

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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is wonderful, I am from South Africa, and you have chosen some excellent examples of the Afrikaans language and your illustrations are cute and fitting.

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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Robyn dit is lekker om ons taal op n webtuiste te kan sien en so n goeie terugvoering kry van almal

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

3 of the 6 are Dutch....

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Afrikaans is based on Dutch after the Dutch settlers came to South Africa. Also used to be referred to as Kitchen Dutch, Cape Dutch or African Dutch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans

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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amazing work! We should celebrate Afrikaans instead of condemning it as the "language of oppression". Lets live in the present, not the past

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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Te dierbaar! Love it so much! :D PLEASE do more!

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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thanks! I have had a great response with this post, so I will probably do more in the near future!

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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This post reminds me of Trevor Noah ahahaha. You got seriously funny stand up comedians out there.

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Ummm, isn't this the language that the white minority tried to force upon the black majority during Apartheid in South Africa? Weren't black teachers who "committed suicide" in custody arrested for not teaching the language of Dutch Colonialist to the black children of the slums? Slums like Soweto. Where's the cartoon for oppression?

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Afrikaans was first spoken by Coloured people at the Cape coast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans

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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was hoping, as someone who also understands Dutch, to find my favourite Afrikaans word translated, namely: verkleurmannetje. For those not in the know, it's Afrikaans for Chameleon and literally means "changing colour little man"

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This is wonderful, I am from South Africa, and you have chosen some excellent examples of the Afrikaans language and your illustrations are cute and fitting.

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Robyn dit is lekker om ons taal op n webtuiste te kan sien en so n goeie terugvoering kry van almal

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3 of the 6 are Dutch....

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Afrikaans is based on Dutch after the Dutch settlers came to South Africa. Also used to be referred to as Kitchen Dutch, Cape Dutch or African Dutch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans

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Amazing work! We should celebrate Afrikaans instead of condemning it as the "language of oppression". Lets live in the present, not the past

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Te dierbaar! Love it so much! :D PLEASE do more!

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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thanks! I have had a great response with this post, so I will probably do more in the near future!

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This post reminds me of Trevor Noah ahahaha. You got seriously funny stand up comedians out there.

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Ummm, isn't this the language that the white minority tried to force upon the black majority during Apartheid in South Africa? Weren't black teachers who "committed suicide" in custody arrested for not teaching the language of Dutch Colonialist to the black children of the slums? Slums like Soweto. Where's the cartoon for oppression?

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Afrikaans was first spoken by Coloured people at the Cape coast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans

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language dum and "artist" dummer

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