“Vandag ons praat net Afrikaans, want Afrikaans is ‘n mooi en pragtige taal…” – Tidal Waves
Hoewel die sinskonstruksie my laat ril, moet ek tog met Tidal Waves saamstem. Afrikaans is ‘n mooi en pragtige taal.
Dit is waarom ek jou vandag wil help om hierdie wonderlike taal van ons behoorlik te praat.
Ek het ‘n lys gaan maak van algemene taalfoute wat Afrikaanssprekendes maak – sonder dat hul noodwendig weet dat dit verkeerd is. Hopelik sal jy nadat jy hierdie gelees het nie weer daardie foute maak nie.
‘n Mens vra vrae. Nie vra vra nie. Vrae is die meervoudsvorm van vraag.
‘n Mens gaan MET vakansie, nie OP vakansie nie.
MAAR, ‘n mens gaan wel OP toer. Leer ken die verskil en maak seker dat jy die regte voorsetsel in die regte konteks gebruik.
Die woord “professor” het een “f” en twee “s’e”. Onthou dit so: een Frokkie, twee Sokkies. Dieselfde geld dan ook vir die woord “professioneel”.
Die woord “interessant” het een “r” en twee “s’e”. Onthou dit so: een Rokkie, twee Sokkies. Dieselfde geld ook vir “interesseer”.
Ek is geskok om te sien hoe baie mense die F-woord verkeerd spel! Dit is nie baie moeilik nie! Dit is die “F”-woord!! Persoonlik voel ek dat die gebruik van daardie woord heeltemal onnodig en onvanpas is, maar indien jy werklik die drang het om die woord te gebruik, spel dit tog net met ‘n “F” in plaas van ‘n “V”!
Nog ‘n vaste uitdrukking wat mense dikwels verkeerd gebruik is “saam met”. Baie mense gebruik net “saam”, byvoorbeeld, “ek sal saam hom ry”, terwyl dit eintlik “ek sal saam met hom ry” moet wees. Ek dink nie baie mense weet eers dat hul hierdie uitdrukking verkeerd gebruik nie. Nou kan jy nie meer sê dat jy nie geweet het nie.
Die woord “mos” is ‘n lieflike Afrikaanse gespreksvloeier, maar woord heeltemal te veel gebruik. Verder gebruik sommige mense “mons” in plaas van “mos”. Mons is nie eers ‘n woord nie. Wees versigtig met hoe jy “mos” gebruik.
‘n Mens vra “om verskoning”, nie “onverskoning” nie. Ek verstaan waarom mense deurmekaar raak met die “m” en “n”-klanke, maar maak in die vervolg seker dat jy die regte uitdrukking gebruik.
Daar is ‘n verskil tussen “erken” en “herken”. Die woord “erken” = admit in Engels. “Herken” = recognise. Hopelik help die vertaling om die verskil duideliker te maak.
“Huidiglik” is nie regtig ‘n woord nie. ‘n Beter alternatief is die woord “tans”.
‘n Paar oulike Afrikaanse alternatiewe vir alombekende Engelse woorde:
Hashtag – hitsklits
App (application) – toep (toepassing)
Bucket list – kluitklaplys
Double-sided tape – alkantplakband
Indien jy enige woorde by die lys wil voeg, of moontlik weet van nog ‘n paar algemene taalfoute wat Afrikaanssprekendes maak, lewer gerus kommentaar in die gegewe blokkie hieronder.
You know that terrible feeling of having a song stuck in your head the WHOLE day? Especially if you only know the first few lyrics of the song.
I woke up this morning with that “Come on Eileen” track in my head, but I keep repeating “Come on Eileen, eeh blah blah blah…”.
Well, these songs that you end up humming all day long are scientifically known as “earworms”. According to my friend Wikipedia, the definition of an “earworm” is as follows:
An earworm is a piece of music that sticks in one’s mind so that one seems to hear it, even when it is not being played.
Due to the frustration caused by this, I decided to so some research on the “song stuck in your head”-phenomenon.
Apparently, songs with lyrics are reported as most frequently stuck (74% ) , followed by commercial jingles (“That’s B.I.Z.A.R.R.E. Come to Bathroom Bizarre!”) (15%) and instrumental tunes without words (11%).
I also came across a list of the THE TOP TEN SONGS MOST LIKELY TO GET STUCK IN YOUR HEAD:
10. Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes
9. Do you want to – Franz Ferdinand
8. Teenage dream – Katy Perry
7. Kids – MGMT
6. Bad Romance – Lady Gaga
5. Pumped up kicks – Foster the People
4. Paradise – Coldplay
3. We Will Rock you – Queen
2. Umbrella – Rihanna
1. Yellow Submarine – The Beatles
If you now have one of these songs stuck in your head, I apologise. However, I do have a solution for you:
Whenever you have a song in your head, log onto this website where you will be bombarded by other equally catchy tunes in order to replace the song you currently have in you head. Quite a nifty idea if you ask me!
Although, in my case, it’s gone from bad to worse… instead of “Come on Eileen”, I have been mumbling “I’m too sexy” ever since I discovered this site a few minutes ago…
Date: 2012.04.22 | Category: South Africa | Response: 0
You know you’re from Benoni when…
1. You’re sick of everyone’s Benoni jokes.
2. A new jol opens and you just know you’ll be there every week for the next six weeks. … 3. The new jol closes down because of fighting 12 weeks later.
4. The lebs are omni-present.
5. A leb has called you eira, zubber, ghey or Spiderman.
6. You’ve wondered if you could be the next biggest thing to come out of Benoni.
7. Travelling to the North is never too far, but always too far for them to come to us.
8. The mine dump was the first thing you saw whenever you returned from holidays.
9. You know Benoni actually means ‘son of my sorrow’.
10. You know that Tom Jones Street is actually named after a fire chief and not the singer.
11. You’ve been to at least two Benoni High Wheels days.
12. You’ve pulled at least one Benoni High girl or boy.
13. You’ve visited the Bunny Park.
14. You’ve got drunk atop one of the castles in the Bunny Park.
15. You’ve seen catfish the size of dinosaurs at Homestead dam.
16. You’ve seen people smoking spliff at Homestead Dam.
17. You love watching the trees come to life during Spring.
18. You partied at Club 64, Tramps or Vaca Loca.
19. You’ve heard about the good times your older brother or sister had at Club 64, Tramps or Vaca Loca.
20. You know who Warren Lovell is.
21. You used to pull a zap sign at the Caltex Bunny next to Lakeside Mall.
22. You’ve mooned the prostitutes in the CBD late at night.
23. You’ve actually telephoned Jungle Cats to check prices.
24. You’ve smelled booze on the dudes that run the rides at the Benoni Carnival.
25. Someone’s called you their canoni from Benoni.
26. You’ve seen a whole lot of police men and women learning how to drive.
27. You know that the speed bumps outside Hans Moore and Northfield Methodist are in fact the meanest in SA.
28. You know exactly where – and what – the 509 is.
29. You start your sentences with Boet, or Heavy.
30. You know that it’s the only place in the world where you don’t have to be famous to say “Do you KNOW who I am?”
31. You move to England for a working holiday and three months later half your mates arrive to do the same.
32. You distinguish papsak by vintage and cultivar.
33. 90% of the time, you don’t have to get out of your car to go the bar.
34. You know of at least two places to illegally purchase alcohol after bottle stores have closed.
35. You’ve hatched a plan to trick tourists into thinking that you actually live in Benonwaa, a hugely wealthy wine estate in eastern Gauteng.
36. You kind of remember R1 tequila and schnapps on the Tramps outside floor.
37. The Tramps outside floor helped define the way you still dance to house music.
38. You’re able to locate scenes from Crazy Monkey: Straight outta Benoni within a 5km radius of your house.
39. You’ve been told more than twice not to swim in any of Benoni’s dams because ‘there might be dead bodies in there’.
40. You’ve been amazed at the number of fishing stories centered around Benoni’s dams.
41. You’ve heard about fishermen catching legendary barbel at CR Swart dam by casting out an entire chicken on a hook.
42. You’ve attended the Red Bull Flugtag at Homestead dam.
43. You’ll be talking about the time it snowed for years to come.
44. Every time rain clouds gather, you wonder if Benoni will flood again.
45. You fondly think of the mine dump as our own Table Mountain.
46. You get angry when people think Benoni and Boksburg are the same place.
47. You know that Benoni turned 100 years old in 2008.
48. You know that Bryan Habana was born in Benoni.
49. You’ve spent any amount of time at Rynfield Drapers…and you always made jokes about the name.
50. You used to attend Youth Balls at the Town hall.
51. You used to party at The Warehouse in town.
52. You know that the Benoni Country Club rates in the bottom half of the Top 100 golf courses in SA.
53. You used to see or party with Vernon Koekemoer.
54. You pull into H20 in Boksburg and get an idea of what Benoni at the beach must look like.
55. You remember seeing the Christmas lights at the end of each year along the town’s main roads.
56. You’ve shot a game of pool at Shooters, Northmead Square.
57. You kind of miss riding your bicycle in the sand works, now that Ebotse Golf Estate is completed.
58. You can look at Benoni on Google Earth and you know exactly where everything is.
59. You use Luna Plaza as a means of giving directions more than you use it for food.
60. You quote Barry Hilton constantly.
61. You’ve put dish washing liquid in the Lakefield fountain and either ran, cycled or drove away.
62. You know that the sport of wakeboarding in SA was pretty much born in Benoni.
63. You’re about to get into a fight and you phone your friends before you phone the cops.
64. You think you’re special because you didn’t come from Springs.
65. You hear Charlize Theron talk about “growing up on a farm” in South Africa, but you know it’s just a plot in Benoni.
66. You used to drive past the lake next to Lakeside Mall and though it looked completely dried up because of the water hyacinth.
67. You know that the best St Patrick’s Day celebration for miles around happens at McGinty’s at the Square.
68. You know that the world’s strongest DJ, Mark Stent, comes from Benoni.
69. You know that local Benoni girl Charlene Wittstock is married to Prince Albert of Monaco.
70. Someone older has forbidden you to waterslide down the overflow tunnel that joins Homestead and Middle Lake.
71. You remember the ice creams at the Milky Lane in Benoni Town Plaza.
72. You can start a rumour and know that it’ll filter right through back to you within 3 weeks.
73. You know that the Chimes Tavern is Benoni’s oldest pub.
74. You know that DJ Euphonik from 5fm comes from Benoni.
75. You read the Benoni City Times avidly and always recognise at least one person mentioned.
76. You’ve made friends and lost friends, and will never ever forget your loyalty or memories.
77. You can take yourself out of Benoni, but never Benoni out of you.
Taken from the creative folks in the Facebook group “you know you from Benoni when…”
The latest offering by Capetonian rock band, Taxi Violence, has hit the interwebs.
The music video for their new single, Unholy, definitely raised some eyebrows – mostly because of the nude appearance by South African model and actress, Tanit Phoenix.
Date: 2012.04.16 | Category: live, music, rock | Response: 0
In 1992, a man named Corey Taylor gained fame as the frontman and lyricist a band called Stone Sour. They performed for five years, before Corey left the band in 1997, along with guitarist, Jim Root, to join another band, known as Slipknot. Then in 2002, Stone Sour reunited.
A lot of people, including myself, have been in two minds about Corey’s projects. On the one hand, I’m totally intrigued by the attention-grabbing image, aggressive music style, and energetic and chaotic live shows that Slipknot brings to the table (plus the scary masks are kinda cool), but then again, the nostalgic and “Pink Floyd meets Alice in Chains”-sound of Stone Sour has me rooting for both the bands.
So, I took this one to Twitter. Corey Taylor: Slipknot or Stone Sour?
Here are some of the responses I got:
@HennoKruger: Stone Sour rather… not a huge Slipknot fan@Swoop101: Definitely Stone Sour
@DivanSon: Close, but Stone Sour comes out tops
@LBPilot: Definitely Slipknot!
@CraftyZA: Both. Stone Sour is just Slipknot light
So, it is quite obvious to see that Stone Sour takes this one. In my own, biased opinion… I totally agree. I found this quote by Corey Taylor himself which summarises the difference between the two bands quite well:
“Stone Sour allows me to execute the writing style that I love and can’t necessarily do with Slipknot.”
While still embracing the heaviness true to the fundamentals of Taylor and Root’s other band, Stone Sour offers a more introspective and intimate take on music, thus the absence of their masks while performing with Stone Sour.
Whether you prefer Slipknot or Stone Sour, Corey Taylor is an amazig musician in his own right.
**COREY TAYLOR TRIVIA**
Did you know that Corey lost his virginity to his babysitter at the age of 11?
He also overdosed on cocaine twice as a teenager.
Corey originally wanted to play drums in Slipknot, but eventually chose vocals instead.
He has three children – Griffin, Aravis, and Angeline.
Dit het begin met sterretekens en daarna het alles skielik handuit geruk. As jy ‘n “Gemini” is, is die kans goed dat jy hoogs intelligent is, terwyl ‘n “Pisces” die stil, romantiese tipe is. Volgens Prof. Chris Idzikowski, direkteur van die Slaapassessering en Adviesdiens (ja, ‘n mens kry so iets), kan ‘n mens se slaapposisie ook iets van jou persoonlikheid verklap.Idzikowski het ses verskillende slaapposisies identifiseer en volgens hom slaap die meerderheid van die mensdom in een van die posisies (of iets soortgelyk):
Die fetus posisie:Daar word beweer dat sowat 41% van die wêreld se bevolking in hierdie posisie slaap. Mense wat geneig is om so te slaap kom dikwels oor as sterk, selfstandige mense maar hul is egter baie sensitief. Verder is hul ook mense wat maklik by ‘n geselskap inval. Vrouens is twee keer meer geneig om in hierdie posisie te slaap as mans (#funfact)
Die houtstomp: Na bewering rus 15% van alle mense in hierdie posisie. As jy in hierdie posisie slaap is jy ‘n sosiale mens wat maklik mens vertrou en kan soms liggelowig wees.
Die “yearner”: Sowat 13% slaap so. Indien jy so slaap word jy dikwels as oopkop, hardkoppig, effens sinies en agterdogtig beskou. Nog ‘n kenmerk van “yearners” is dat hul by hul besluite hou wanneer hul ‘n besluit geneem het.
Die soldaat: Die 8% van mense wat so slaap word gesien as stil en teruggetrokke. Verder stel hul ook hoe verwagtinge vir hulself sowel as ander. Nog ‘n #funfact, mense wat in hierdie posisie slaap is geneig om te snork en dus ook meer gereeld wakker te word deur die nag.
Die vrye val:Parmantig, uitspattig en ongemaklik met kritiek. Dit is hoe die 7% van mense wat in hierdie posisie slaap beskryf word.
Die seester: Slegs 5% van die wereld se bevolking slaap in hierdie posisie. Indien jy so slaap is die kans goed dat jy ‘n goeie luisteraar is, daarvan hou om ander te help en ongemaklik voel wanneer jy die middelpunt van die aandag is. Soos met die “soldaat”, is mense wat in die seester posisie slaap ook geneig om te snork (dus, moenie op jou rug slaap nie).
Ek dink baie van hierdie “teorieë” is maar net generies. Volgens hierdie studie moet ek hardkoppig en sinies wees en enige iemand wat my ken sal weet dis nie waar nie.Tog het ek dit interessant gevind en besluit om dit met jou te deel.In watse posisie slaap jy?? En is die definisie van jou persoonlikheid akkuraat?
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. – Mark Twain
Sometimes, we all get crazy ideas.
“Let’s start a band!”, “Let’s try that!”, “Time me while I do this…”
The guy who thought of selling sliced bread was a genius. The person who decided to add glue to a piece of paper and call it a “Post-it” also deserves a shout out. Then you get the kind of ideas that are so insanely crazy, that they might just change the world we live in. Here’s a few of those ideas:
Mom, never again would you have to get up at night to attend to your little one. This bed provides the perfect solution!
Those ordinary, bulky camping chairs will never be the same after you’ve tried THIS!
If you love cooking, you’ll know how troublesome that damn spatula can be. You don’t want to put it on the surrounding surface because then you’d have to clean it up again, and you can’t always keep it in the pot. Whoever came up with this simple idea is a genius.
This idea is very cost-effective for students who can’t afford both beer and shot glasses.
Now you never have to worry about throwing away your bottle caps again.
Not enough space in your room for another table? No problem!
Those round pizza-cutter-stuff never works, so here’s a simple idea to solve that problem.
You gotta like this!
The cool thing is… these crazy ideas actually exist and you can buy them online. Visit www.thisiswhyimbroke.com for these and other interesting and crazy ideas.
