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Gerhard van Huyssteen

@gerhardvanh

Afrikaans linguist / Afrikaanse taalkundige @ NWU. Taalpreneur. Foefiefoendie. Weter van niks. Woorde wek én strek.

 Pretoria, South Africa
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"Voetsek", or "voertsek", or "tsek"! The Dictionary of South African English notes the first usage in English already in 1837 in the spelling "voortzuk". #swearing #swearword #vloek #VoetsekMeghan #VoetsekMeghanMarkle
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#VoetsekMeghan : "Voetsek" (or "voertsek") is an Afrikaans loanword in SA English and other SA languages, meaning "go away", and it is used as an expletive to express disgust. It comes from Dutch "voort zeg ik" ('away, I say').
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Animal name #compounds in #Afrikaans #morphology #linguistics #MeanwhileInAfrikaans
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Slegs DRIE dae oor om R2100 te wen - mailchi.mp/8d0eda09b4a4/sleg…
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Wen 'n vinnige R2100'tjie met ons blitspeilings - mailchi.mp/e546a3b9368d/wen-…
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David Howard@Used_For_Glue13 Jan 2020
When you go to a conference and only know one other person
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Taaltoffie@Taaltoffie25 Nov 2019
Gerhard van Huyssteen gesels oor taboewoorde, konteks en taalgebruik. Luister hier: maroelamedia.co.za/afrikaans… @gerhardvanh
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As al die ander goeie webwerfadresse gevat is ...
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Ek het pas begin met Kerneels Breytenbach​ se nuwe roman, Hond se gedagte. Wat 'n heerlikheid! En as ek dinge so kyk, dan is daar nie 'n beter tyd as om dit NOU te lees terwyl die Rugbywêreldbeker aan die gang is nie. amzn.to/2ABRu2O via @amazon
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@JohnHMcWhorter3 Sep 2019
DARN's etymology is really neat. The whole story is only on this @lexiconvalley. Also, some *real* curse words other than the one I did a show on before. Teaser: someone has suggested a gender-neutral pronoun combining she, he and it into ... slate.com/podcasts/lexicon-v… via @slate

Curse Words Can Reveal a Lot About the English Language

Each word’s background contains a linguistic lesson.

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@JohnHMcWhorter6 Sep 2019
Beto saying "fucked up" isn't profane because f--- is no longer profane in any sense an anthropologist would recognize. It's just salty -- and honest, and sometimes le mot juste. Slurs are our modern profanity, not sex and body words. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
The F-Word Is Going the Way of Hell

The F-Word Is Going the Way of Hell

In today’s world, slurs are the real profanity, not the use of an “F-bomb” to describe a mass shooting.

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Dis nou hoe 'n graadprogram mos moet klink!
Richard Futrell (@rljfutrell) profile pictureRichard Futrell@rljfutrell18 Sep 2019
Consider UC Irvine Language Science for your PhD. We are taking our first round of graduate applications this fall. We are a new kind of department for the 21st century. Below, some FAQs, and why you should apply. Thread below 👇
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Rob Drummond@RobDrummond16 Sep 2019
A graph and explanation of linguistic knowledge vs linguistic pedantry. *Updated* Sep 2019. #Pedantry #AntiPedantry #PedanticAntiPedantry
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Knyp gou 'n paar sekondes af, asseblief? bit.ly/vloek-donders #vloek
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David J. Trowbridge@DTrowbridge712 Sep 2019
I just told our six-year old about interlibrary loan. Daughter: They’ll get you ANY book? Even if it’s ten miles away? Dad: Even if it’s a thousand miles away! Daughter: Librarians must be magic. Dad: They have to be. They work with books.
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Dis Vrydag! Kom ons bak kop! Annelize Visser se artikel in @vryeweekblad van 23 Augustus deser het my geïnspireer. #skaapkop #afval
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Rassie raak woes bit.ly/2NbRBKS
English speakers acquire the definition of plural as “not one” and use plural forms accordingly. Why teach falsehoods like “plural means more than one” to children in elementary grammar classes just to have to reexplain the complete truth later? parentingpatch.com/singular-…
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