TROTS AFRIKAANS ! May 13, 2008
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Although the heading is in Afrikaans I am going to write this post in English so that more South Africans can understand its contents.
It saddens me very much when I hear how the Afrikaans language has been bastardised by Afrikaners who say that they are “Proudly Afrikaans.”
When you listen to them speaking they can hardly complete a sentence without using an “English” word or phrase in it. Why? Pure laziness! If you are proudly Afrikaans you should speak the pure language.
Next time you watch television and you see the following people being interviewed listen carefully:
1) Rassie Erasmus, the Stormers rugby coach, in every sentence he uses “English” words and he is an Afrikaner. Now what amazed me is that when they interviewed Dick Muir, the sharks rugby coach, he spoke fluent Afrikaans without a word of English and I am sure his first language is English. Well done Dick Muir what a wonderful example!
2) Steve Hofmeyr our most popular Afrikaans singer, wow! His songs, his interviews, his chat shows, everything he says and does has this bastardised language, what a shame, he should be an example to all the Afrikaners!
3) Most of our South African artist are just as guilty as Steve, I have heard all of the following doing exactly the same: Patricia Lewis, Jannie Moolman, Theuns Jordaan, Nicholis Louw, Dozi, I can go on and on here, one example of this is that they all use the word “song” instead of “lied”.
The one well known person in this country who truly shows that he is proud to be Afrikaans is Nikki van den Berg a presenter on Radio Sonder Grense (RSG), I have never heard him bastardise Afrikaans, in fact he goes out of his way to use different Afrikaans words from the norm to try and educate the Afrikaner Nation. We can all learn from him and follow his example.
I know that every language does sometimes adopt words from other language groups, for example the Afrikaans word “lekker” is used by our English-speaking people because it is such a descriptive word, but they certainly do not bastardise there language by using an Afrikaans word in every sentence.
I am challenging the Afrikaners to clean up their act and start speaking Afrikaans properly and I am challenging the artists in this country to stop using English words in their Afrikaans songs, their interviews, their stage performances and their daily lives.
Let us help each other by correcting each other when we hear someone using an English word, it can be done if we all work together at it.
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Dis bizar dat hierdie stuk in Engels geskryf is
Great post, and I totally agree with you, although I can say here in Europe that its pretty much the same thing, in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, so many English words are creeping in. It makes you wonder if in a couple of hundred years everyone will just speak English.
The one exception to this rule is in Spain, but I wonder if that is because Spanish is spoken by more native speakers than English so there is a much bigger pool of cultural media so people perhaps aren’t being exposed to English as much.
ja, its a blimming shame about the rugby
Ek stem saam dis bizar dat dit in Engels is - pragtige stuk skryfwerk, maar sekerlik is dit aan die Afrikaners gemik? Ek glo nie die Engelssprekendes gee ‘n duit om nie… En as al die kunstenaars (Soos Trots Afrikaans hier bo sê) maar net hul deel sal bydra om ons taal suiwer te hou, sal dit ‘n groter impak hê omdat hulle meer in die publieke oog is … Hou dit vol ‘frostygirl’ …