Sotho language Puns

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Green in the West is Afrikaans.

I was watching “How To Ruin Christmas: The Wedding” and noticed all the characters frequently switched between speaking English, Sotho, Tswana, Zulu, and Xhosa. They would even start a sentence off speaking in one language then end the sentence speaking another language.

I know South Africa is multilingual and has its 11 official languages, but is it normal for everyday conversation to be multilingual like that?

The series takes place in Johannesburg — are most people in Gauteng fluent in all those languages?

ETA: Thank you for all the responses! How very interesting to know that this kind of multilingualism is actually so common, I had no idea!

Pt.1 | Dramatis Personae

---Disclaimer: This is a continuation of a character sheet for the series There Will Be Scritches. It may not be to everyone's taste, it is not required reading, you will be able to enjoy the series having never read further. I intend to edit it as new characters are added and/or if details change. Characters are listed in order of first mention---

Name: Jeanne “Blitz” Miyazaki

Sex: F

Occupation: Ambassador

Age (EEY): 65 (52 at meeting with Tcakqaal, 38 at Peace Accord)

Species: Human

Diet: Omnivorous

Manipulation: Bimanual (ten fingers, of which two thumbs)

Locomotion: Bipedal Plantigrade

Height: 178cm

Weight: 68kg

Hair Colour: Raven

Eye Colour: Black

Homeworld: Earth Cradleworld: Earth

Languages Spoken: English, Japanese, Russian, French, Korean, Tagalog, Swahili, Arabic, Navajo, New Norse (Icelandic, Faroese comprehensible), German, Spanish, Hindi, Telegu, Kazakh, Mongol, Farsi, Yoruba, Malagasy, Guarani, GB, GBSL

Sexual Preference: Straight Species Preference: Robo sapiens

First Mention: Pt. 6 First Appearance: Pt.6

Religious Persuasion: Buddhist-Shinto Syncretist

Familial Status: Married to Ez1026r583A “Ezra”

Alma Mater: Westminster College

Name: Ez1026r583A “Ezra”

Sex: None (male presenting)

Occupation: Ambassador

Age (EEY): 41 (29 at meeting with Tcakqaal)

Species: Robo sapiens

Diet: None (charges electrically by use of solar collection field)

Manipulation: Bimanual (ten fingers, of which two thumbs)

Locomotion: Bipedal Plantigrade

Height: 230cm

Weight: 200kg

Hair Colour: None

Eye Colour: Luminous Azure

Homeworld: Earth Cradleworld: Earth

Languages Spoken: All Known

Sexual Preference: Straight Species Preference: Humans

First Mention: Pt. 6 First Appearance: Pt.6

Religious Persuasion: Agnostic

Familial Status: Married to Jeanne “Blitz” Miyazaki

Alma Mater: Westminster College

Name: Yetta

Sex: F

Occupation: None currently

Age (EEY): 25

Species: Pahadan

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

1. Which of the two languages has the most speakers?
2. Is the mutual intelligibility equal between Sesotho & Setswana? Or do speakers of Sesotho for example have an easier/harder time understanding Tswana speakers.
3. Which one will open up more doors in the Southern African region?
4. Is it really necessary to learn both given how similar they are? I recently had a chat with a Sotho girl from Joburg and she told me that she tends to use both in same conversation with a bit of English thrown in when she can't remember a certain word.
5. I've read somewhere that Sesotho has "clicks" in some word unlike Setswana. Is the difficulty on par with other click Bantu languages like Zulu and Xhosa?

Personally I'm learning towards Sesotho because:

• I find there traditional wear to be quite stylish
• I'd like to visit Lesotho one day,
• Sotho girls have always been pleasant to me since I arrived in SA (compared to some other tribes I won't mention to avoid starting a fight here.) 🤣

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Bantu languages with clicks include the Nguni languages, such as Zulu, Xhosa, and Ndebele. These have dental, alveolar, and either palatal or lateral clicks.

Transitional forms are Swazi, which only has dental clicks, Tswana, which only has clicks in ideophones in elderly speech, and Southern Sotho, which only has alveolar clicks (or dental clicks in informal speech).

And as for Northern Sotho:
> Urban varieties of Northern Sotho, such as Pretoria Sotho (actually a derivative of Tswana), have acquired clicks in an ongoing process of such sounds spreading from Nguni languages.

How do clicks develop? What are the non-click cognates of words with clicks in Bantu click languages?

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

They’re on standbi

Part 8 - Levitation during a live exorcism

Experiences:
#1 Divine Moments of Truth (D-M-T)
#2 New worlds to explore
#3 Confusion
#4 I did DMT; LSD can't be that bad, right?
#5 The DMT Warfare
#6 Answering the call
#7 First time with Ayahuasca
#8 Levitation during a live exorcism
#9 Sweat Lodge ceremony
#10 Taking Ayahuasca to the next level
#12 Shamanic Sun Dance
#13 Maybe I too can be a Shaman
#14 New method of administration
#15 There is such a thing as going too far
#16 Beginning of a new chapter: Iboga
#17 Journey into the soul with Iboga
#18 A welcome ceremony for the ancestors in Gabon, Africa
#19 Ifulu - the detoxifying smoke
#20 Bringing back information from the other side
#21 Initiation into the Bwiti
#22 Purging and cleansing
#23 The Iboga tea
#24 The Seer
#25 Now I can see them too
#26 Escaping the flames
#27 Return to IbogaSoul
#28 Fire Keeping with Peyote
#29 Astral Projection
#30 Happy times
#31 Testing TA
#32 The superconscious brain
#33 Facilitating my own ceremony
#34 Acknowledged by the Teacher
#35 Fasting to go faster
#36 Dementors are real
#37 Manifesting Truth, and Love is the answer!
#38 Light Language to the rescue
#39 Star Magic Training
#40 Remote Viewing the Crystal Citadel
#41 The Glowing Heart Meditation
#42 Living life in another dimension
#43 Revisiting an old friend
#44 When life gives you lemons...
#45 Unlocking financial abundance
#46 Encounter with the guides
The bold ones are the pivotal experiences that changed everything

Always possible to go back to the previous ones to get context!

Part 8 - Levitation during a live exorcism

*This is one of the stories that may be hard t

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Two varieties for this one. First is just regular trivia.

$200 - Modern scholars dispute who wrote "Land der Berge, Land am Strome", the anthem of Austria, but it has traditionally been accredited to this famous composer.

$400 - The anthems of these two rival countries have the same title: Aegukka or Aegukga, meaning "The Patriotic Song".

$600 - "La Bayamesa" has been the anthem of this island country since 1902, it was even kept after the communist revolution in 1959.

$800 - The national anthem of South Africa is a composite of two songs, in five languages. It takes one song sung in Xhosa, Zulu, and Sotho, and merges it with the old apartheid-era anthem sung in these two languages.

$1000 - Andorra's national anthem is named after this founding father, who was king of the Franks in the 800s.

We give you a translated lyric, you name the country whose anthem it's from.

$400 - "Thy name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Sindh, Gujarat, and Maratha, Dravida, Orissa, and Bengal"

$800 - "From the southern seas to the polar edge, our forests and fields are spread out."

$1200 - "Now or never, let us show the world that through these arms, Roman blood still flows"

$1600 - "In thy beautiful, smiling and limpid sky the image of the Southern Cross blazes."

$2000 - "Forever, the colours red and white have symbolised our liberty"

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Probably one of the most random / weirdest posts you'll ever see on this subreddit.

So - I'm doing work (video editing) for a client of ours and I need someone to help me with a text translation (from English to Zulu/Sotho/Xhosa etc. Which African language used doesn't matter) because google translate messes anything more than a singular word up and the people I know that can help isn't helping me either. So thus, came to reddit for help.

The phrase in question is "Hello my love" or anything similar to that which would be used in greeting a boyfriend/girlfriend. Also if you give a translation it would be awesome if you could add in the language it's in just for interest's sake.

Thanks in advance, lol

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

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Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

guys I really like the letter m. no like, if there was any letter i would get rid of from the alphabet, it would be anything other than m. M can be multiple things at once, such as "good taste," "bad reaction," "add an H to make you think," and so much more. M is the centre point for creation if you think hard enough. Split an m in half and you get nn. Flip one of the n's, and you get un. Split another m, and turn one 90 degrees counterclockwise, and close the other, and you end up with unco. Sharpen the u, get a v. Add a line, flip it, and you get A. Double the v and combine them, and you get w. Chop off one of the lines from w, and you get l and N. Turn it 90 degrees clockwise, and you get Z. Make the middle line vertical, you get an I. Turn it again 90 degrees clockwise, and it's H. Now get rid of the line again, make the 2 lines perpendicular, and it's X. Break the X in half, rearrange the pieces, and it's k. Rearrange again, bend one of the pieces, and it's f. Take the smaller piece, bend it, and you get p. Rotate 180 degrees, and it's d. Flip it, b. 180 degrees again, q. Extend the line and curve it, and it's a g. Break the circle, and it's an s. Bend the lower half straight, and it's r. Extend the bottom again, and curve the top part, and it's e. Straighten it, break apart a tiny piece, and set it right below the top, and it's t. Flip it, turn it, and move the small piece, and it's y. Straighten the piece, convert the smaller line into a dot, j. Now, finally, we're done. We have assembled the entire alphabet using only m as our template. You know what, m is the 13th letter in the alphabet. 13 is usually a cursed number, and it's also the reason most hotels don't have a 13th floor (seriously). Friday the 13th is a popular film series involving a guy in a mask who like i dunno stalks a lake or whatever. The first Friday the 13th film came out in 1980. 1980 is also when Post-it notes went on sale. Post-it has 6 letters. Friday has 6 letters. Guess what else has 6 letters? Um, uhh, apples. With an s. That has 6 letters. I like apples. Following our procedure for turning m into all the letters, but reversing it, we can make mmmmmm. Going back to the 3rd sentence of this rant, mmmmmm can express feelings of good taste (mmmmmm, this food tastes good), bad reaction (mmmmmm sorry dude about how no one agrees with your rant), and add an H to make you think (Hmmmmmm, I should probably stop ranting about now). Using the second sentence (bad reaction), I can con

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

You take away their little brooms

There hasn't been a post all year!

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It was about a weak back.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "