ɱųʑŋąɧ (abel’s wife) 🇿🇦🇸🇿

Giving Nelly M a rest tonight. TITO MBOWENI VUKA CHOMI

A sad thing here is the very insulting, anti-Black American offense South Africans are taking at being linguistically compared to African Americans, refusing to accept that they’re *at minimum* bilingual. Just open revulsion at being likened to people they look down on. Awful.

‘SUPERGIRL’ is getting review bombed on IMDb!

DC really had the perfect actors for both Superman and Supergirl and dropped the ball with both.

The ending we all deserved…

Explain to me how Cape Verde qualified in 2nd place without winning a single match.

Extended the amount of teams was cool to allow more teams a chance to play at the tournament but the quality of some of the teams will be hilarious, these South Africans are shocking

I understand the defence mode and I too was a bit defensive before fully engaging the argument and understanding what was being said. ​In this instance, South Africans are sounding just like Americans did during the Tyla issue. No matter how much people explained that Coloured is a distinct identity in SA, Americans wouldn't hear it. ​Now, African Americans are trying to explain that moving between English and AAL is a legitimate shift from one language system to another, Just like a South African switching between English and isiZulu. And South Africans are refusing to understand that exact same nuance. ​Just because Tyla looks Black to an external observer who doesn't understand the context of South African history and cultural identity, It doesn't erase the fact that she is Coloured. In the exact same way, Just because AAL sounds like English to an external listener who doesn't understand the socio-political history and linguistic identity behind it, It doesn't erase the fact that it operates as a completely separate language system. What started as a celebration of how fluidly characters move between languages in The Polygamist, Has unfortunately turned into two sides arguing past each other from completely different standpoints. While the argument for AAL is about language, power, and defending its autonomy against erasure, The pushback is from those defending the beauty and complexity of South African multilingualism. Both of these truths can coexist. We can praise a unique linguistic landscape without using it to dismiss the validity of another.

I understand the defence mode and I too was a bit defensive before fully engaging the argument and understanding what was being said. ​In this instance, South Africans are sounding just like Americans did during the Tyla issue. No matter how much people explained that Coloured is a distinct identity in SA, Americans wouldn't hear it. ​Now, African Americans are trying to explain that moving between English and AAL is a legitimate shift from one language system to another, Just like a South African switching between English and isiZulu. And South Africans are refusing to understand that exact same nuance. ​Just because Tyla looks Black to an external observer who doesn't understand the context of South African history and cultural identity, It doesn't erase the fact that she is Coloured. In the exact same way, Just because AAL sounds like English to an external listener who doesn't understand the socio-political history and linguistic identity behind it, It doesn't erase the fact that it operates as a completely separate language system. What started as a celebration of how fluidly characters move between languages in The Polygamist, Has unfortunately turned into two sides arguing past each other from completely different standpoints. While the argument for AAL is about language, power, and defending its autonomy against erasure, The pushback is from those defending the beauty and complexity of South African multilingualism. Both of these truths can coexist. We can praise a unique linguistic landscape without using it to dismiss the validity of another.