I walked past a man the other day and greeted him in English -"Hello!"He (a black man) assumed I (a white woman) was Afrikaner and answered "Goeie naand. Hoe gaan dit?"
I figured, Afrikaans isn't his first language and it ceratainly isn't mine, so I answered him in Sotho - "Ke teng, wena, o kae?"
We both stopped, looked at each other, and then burst out laughing! I guess this is what happens when you live in a country with 11 official languages...
1 comment:
:D Love it!!
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