There’s just too much to write about this week. I’ve looked over my Twitter TL, glanced through my notes from the week, and cast my mind back over my lessons – and there are so many avenues to explore. I could talk about the bad joke that started the week – “Dalindyebo, Mbeki and Magashule […]
Category: incwadinsuku / daily blog
Sitting here scraping away the last vestiges of bright pink and orange from around my nails, I realise that I’ve neglected this space for a bit. I think it’s okay, though, because land and sheets of paper (however metaphorical or metaphysical) need to be left to lie fallow every once in a while. The cane […]
There are only 150 words on the page this morning. It’s 7 am, and the translator for a national retail chain has let them down. The day before was a public holiday. And the day before that was Sunday. One can’t really expect someone to act like a professional over a long weekend and get […]
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Háwu!
There are three ideophones involved in the fullest understanding of both the general idea and the two distinctions of the concept of ’emotion’ in isiZulu – háwu, hawu (6-3.3-9) and hawu (6-3.9). Háwu! is an ideophone denoting emotion. It gives rise to all of the different nominal (2) and verbal (4) derivations dealing with emotion. […]
Every Monday morning, Mr Magic’s show has a section called Hlaziya ipolitiki ngolimi lwakho (Analyse Politics in your Language). This morning, I caught the show in time to record it, and have since transcribed it, selected some choice bits, and translated them here for you (with some attention to discourse, as usual). Each of these […]
On Thursday mornings, I teach Paul – though sometimes he ends up teaching me about by-elections or Hebrew grammar or pivot tables. This last Thursday, following the hype around the Umzimkhulu by-election (in isiZulu, ukhetho lokuchibiyela or ‘the election of filling in the gaps’), we ended up translating the names of KwaZulu-Natal’s municipalities (which isn’t […]
I was just getting into my stride for the morning. I had woken, we had sent the kids to school and I had remained and gathered up the scattered remnants of izolo. I had sat down at my computer, the blinds open, about to start my day. And then my friend Mjo Zungu (Manzini!) smses […]
I found a cartoon by Qaps Mngadi from the 4th of December, which you can find on my ‘Political Zulu’ blog here: http://politicalzulu.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/zuma-do-you-feel-lucky-punk/
uMabhengwane 