What kept the owl quiet these past four weeks? Why were there no bits and pieces of linguistic weirdness occasionally scattering across your screen? ngenxa yomsebenzi-nje. because of work. Which is a good thing. uMasingana, the isiZulu name for this month, relates to the verb singa, meaning ‘to look about, to peer out of a […]
Tag: January
This is a column in Isolezwe Newspaper, written by Volovolo Memela. He has a crazy style of writing, and is usually very amusing (and sometimes a bit harsh and biting, in the way of all satire). Today’s Ngeso likaVolovolo had the following headline: Ningabhubhudli imali ngoKhisimusi nibhave ngobhiya bese sinibona ngoJanuwari seniphashile! When translated, this […]
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