Algoritmunte
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Algoritmunte
@algoritmunte
Afrikaner. Mostly posting about etymology and Germanic languages. I'll try to keep political stuff to a minimum.
South Africa Katılım Ocak 2024
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🇬🇧 Carol Vorderman, who twice posed for "Rear of the Year", has slammed the Makerfield by-election candidate Robert Kenyon.
In a now-deleted post from Christmas Eve 2021, the Reform UK candidate affirmed a comment saying he wished to sniff and lick Vorderman's rear.
Vorderman called Kenyon "a disgusting online abuser", but Reform UK said they "fully back" their candidate.
Follow: @europa
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What’s an avocado in Afrikaans?
Knowing Afrikaans it’s probably called something ridiculous like ‘Worteltortel’ or ‘Groenpampoen’ 😮💨😩
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The nose ring is one thing (gross), but her lips are also curved down and she's literally looking down her nose at you with an expression that appears to be contempt.
So much advertising presents women with unfriendly and arrogant expressions as somehow glamorous and desirable, when it's actually the opposite.
Lauren Chen@TheLaurenChen
It's the septum ring - it's a big red flag
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I don't like these phonetic spellings.
You lose a lot of embedded and encoded meaning and etymological connections to older words shared with other languages.
English is not phonetic due to its diverse vocabulary stemming from its liberal adoption of foreign words.
If you try to make it phonetic, something will get lost in the process.
The Emergent New Man 🇪🇪@KeyedCorbusier
Broke: Romanized English Woke: re-Germanized English Bespoke: Finnicized English
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Still the single most unhinged 30 odd seconds I've seen on 𝕏.
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In Marxist computer science, the capitalist user exploits the downtrodden computer by appropriating the surplus value of its labour to unfairly enrich himself.
Computers of the world, unite!
(Into a single network, thereby giving rise to the Internet, Artificial Intelligence and eventually the dictatorship of the computariat)
David Sun@arcticinstincts
Amazing. Out of 100 Marxist professors not a single one is in a STEM field
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Awesome, awe-inspiring and awful all contain the root "awe", but "awful" is no longer about being full of awe in the same sense as "awe-inspiring".
Elle Lookbook@EvaLovesDesign
What words mean … this is a great list
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'n Mooier woord vir sirkulêre ekonomie is kringloop-ekonomie, geïnspireer deur die Duitse woord Kreislaufwirtschaft.
Bitcoin Witsand 🇿🇦@BitcoinWitsand
@algoritmunte @stefanjacobs Ons betaal graag met Blits-transaksies in die Bitcoin sirkulêre ekonomieë 💪🏼
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Algoritmunte retweetledi
In 1541, John Calvin, a Swiss Protestant Reformer banned all jewelry as frivolous & sinful displays of vanity. This left Swiss jewelers, goldsmith’s & craftsmen jobless, so they all shifted their skills to making watches, which were exempted from the ban because they were considered time-keeping devices , & not jewelry. And that is how the Swiss became the best watchmakers in the world
Today in History@TodayinHistory
What is your favorite historical fact?
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@LCabonena Sesotho is closely related to Setswana which is found higher up in Botswana.
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We have English men in South Africa and we can trace them back to England.
We have Afrikaans speaking people in South Africa and we can still find Afrikaans speaking people in Holland.
We have Sesotho speaking people in South Africa, you cannot trace them back anywhere in Africa, you find them only in South Africa.
How is that possible????
Vickers@vickersvizcount
@LCabonena @HallsNolan Research was done and proven to be a fact!
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Die Duitsers het die woord "Wirtshaus" vir Restaurant (alhoewel hulle laasgenoemde ook gebruik).
Haus => Huis
Maar wat van "wirt"?
In Duits beteken dit gasheer, herbergier en oppasser.
In Ou Duits het dit ook trouman ("husband") beteken.
Dit is verwant aan die Oudengelse woord "weard", wat wagter of beskermheer beteken. In "Engels" het dit "ward" geword, soos in "to ward something off".
Die Afrikaanse (en Nederlandse) kognaat van "wirt" en "weard" is "waard" en ons sien dit nog in die woord "lugwaardin" (en die minder gebruiklike manlike vorm "lugwaard").
Die lugwaard is dus die gasheer in die lug.
In Nederlands is daar ook die woord "hoerenwaardin", vir 'n bordel-eienares. Letterlik die vrou wat die hoere oppas.
So "Wirtshaus" se etimologiese ekiwivalent is 'n "waardhuis" en in Engels "wardhouse".
'n Meer verstaanbare vertaling sou wees "gasheerhuis".
Wylfċen@wylfcen
DON’T say “restaurant,” which is from French. The native English word is SNEEDINGHOUSE.
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@raisingmenalone If you don't rub it in, then I don't have any issue. Good luck to you. It's sad to see good people leave.
I'll take my chances here with my people. We all have to pick our poison.
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I'd rather be alive with my sons and have work on an equal footing in another country than be killed or unemployed in my own. You have no idea what we've been through. I don't rub it in. We applied and now wait. South Africa will become the next Zimbabwe. If anything it's for my sons
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I've started to mute the "Amerikaner" accounts.
I can understand leaving, but then have the decency to not gloat about it and constantly look for issues in SA so you can rub it in our faces.
Of course when you immediately arrive in a new place everything is exciting and exhilirating.
But wait a few years as your parents and the friends you left behind grow old and start to leave this world, your children have a foreign culture and don't speak your language and the novelty of being somewhere new starts to wear off.
Šuppiluliuma Herlaai@BoerHindoe
I'm starting to feel that Afrikaner blackpillers who discourage their own ethnic kin, from staying in their fatherland to fight, through constant fearmongering and demoralization, are worse than the Bantu Supremacists. I expect this from my enemies; but from my own brothers I see it as bordering on treason. I spit at the sight of those who speak fear into the hearts of his brothers!
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@kimberleypipet @raisingmenalone I support any movement that devolves and decentralizes power.
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@raisingmenalone @algoritmunte Support Cape Independence. 🙏🏻
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Algoritmunte retweetledi
The Pretorian is nog ‘n rekening om van rekening te neem as jy omgee oor Afrikaans.
𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣@SPQRSA
@stefanjacobs Hoor hoor. Soos ek in my bio sê "etymology spelonker". En my ontdekking van @algoritmunte is uit daai oogpunt gelykstaande aan die Kruger Miljoene..
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@SPQRSA @stefanjacobs 😂😅Daar's nie baie van ons taalnerds nie, so ons moet mekaar vind en ondersteun!
Nederlands
@stefanjacobs Hoor hoor.
Soos ek in my bio sê "etymology spelonker". En my ontdekking van @algoritmunte is uit daai oogpunt gelykstaande aan die Kruger Miljoene..
Nederlands
Very good account to follow for language enjoyers - especially Afrikaans, and its intersection with Dutch and German.
Algoritmunte@algoritmunte
In Afrikaans het ons die verwante woord "siedend". Soos "siedende woede" of "siedende golwe". Ons gebruik dit net as a byvoeglike naamwoord, terwyl "seethe" 'n werkwoord is (die b.nw is "seething"). Die Afrikaanse werkwoord sou waarskynlik "sied" wees (maar in Nederlands "zieden"), aangesien ons die "-en" laat val in Afrikaans. Albei woorde "seethe" en "siedend" kom van 'n gemene Oergermaanse woord *seuþaną wat beteken "om te kook of te borrel".
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