SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

Here you can nominate any word that is proudly South African for us to read in January.

Then we take the word we voted on and read a book starting with a letter in the word, or a author's name/surname that starts with the letter.

For example:

Z -
U - Uglies
L - Lover Eternal
U -

Nominations will be open until 10th of December.

koekstruif (trifle)

Or, malvalekker (marshmallow)

I'll nominate a short phrase if that's ok: JA HEY
As in: Ja hey, he's kind of weird.

hahaha thats such gauteng afrikaner trying to speak english slang hehe

Really? I find most English-speaking South Africans say that. Actually, just a lot of South Africans in general.

Hehe, when I hear that sentence I think of this body builder dude trying to act cool

Hahaha, that's weird! I use it all the time...
I think of it more as a casual space filler, or nod of agreement like 'Yes you're right' or 'Yeah'. And many South Africans, both English and Afrikaans-speaking use 'ja'.

I know, and many times I want to type 'ja' in a frase when speaking with someone not from SA and then I have to stop myself :)

Nice short ones for January:
AG - common expression, as is "Ag, nee" or " Ag, I don't know"
GAT - A hole in the ground or "Jy gaan jou gat sien"

I like GAT

We could make up little sentences with all our words. So far I could say:
Ag, ja hey, I'm gatvol. I need a big malvalekker and some of that koekstruif to make me feel better.

hahahaha Lauren thats a great one, but if we had to read ALL that I'd be exhausted by the end of the month hehe.
Great sentence!!! We've got such wonderful words in SA

I know there's a problem with challenge addictions in this group, but reading books to match a whole sentence is going way too far!

Jip for sure! I've been neglecting some challenges to get going on others...
I've just been too tired to read anything the last couple of days, I find myself falling asleep and waking up with the book on my face!

Ooooh there's another word for the challenge, JIP

I normally write it as 'yep', but then I guess it's not South African anymore...

Hehe it is, but just not Afrikaans.
I love Afrikaans, but I hate it when people mix their language! Especially all these Afrikaans singers who claim to be so proud of their language and then when there is an interview with them they talk english and afrikaans!

Well unless you live in a rural area you're forced to speak English fairly often, whatever your mother tongue, so it's not surprising that it slips in. A lot of Afrikaans words are just English words pronounced in an Afrikaans way, and I've noticed that many Afrikaans speaks will use English jargon or phrases here and there if the Afrikaans version doesn't exist or is very long and obscure.

I get what your saying but its not like normal kind of english stuff that slips in. What irritates me is that their songs are pure afrikaans, but they cant speak pure afrikaans, they'll say stuff like "Ja ekt dit gelike dit was amazing!" why cant they just say "Ja ek het daarvan gehou, dit was fantasties" how hard can it be!
The thing is that the words that they use have GREAT afrikaans versions

Ah, ok I see what you mean. It's not so bad though - English speakers also pepper their speech with Afrikaans and other African languages. It doesn't mean you're not proud of your mother tongue; we just live in a multi-lingual country.

Lol you guys crack me up :)

I nominate HOEZIT - derived from "How is it going?

Update:

KOEKSTRUIF
MALVALEKKER
JA HEY
AG
GAT
HOEZIT

Poll: http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/42...