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okie

Post subject: Re: Afrikaans Animal Names

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:47 pm

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Bush Baptist wrote:

I think ppl just go with the flow as far as names are concerned.

Like mossie for sparrow, and witogie for white-eye.

Hmmmmm... never heard of them being called witogie . The Afrikaans name has always been " glasogie " - meaning Glass eye . :naughty:

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Bush Baptist

Post subject: Re: Afrikaans Animal Names

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 8:18 am

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A lot of 'Engelse' here call them 'witogies'.

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okie

Post subject: Re: Afrikaans Animal Names

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 8:22 am

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And a lot of Engelse are called " rooinekke "

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NetEk

Post subject: Re: Afrikaans Animal Names

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 8:39 am

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okie wrote:

And a lot of Engelse are called " rooinekke "

We won't say anything about the "souties" or what the full name is :roll:

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Philip1

Post subject: Re: Afrikaans Animal Names

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:01 am

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NetEk wrote:

okie wrote:

And a lot of Engelse are called " rooinekke "

We won't say anything about the "souties" or what the full name is :roll:

They are not Animals

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NetEk

Post subject: Re: Afrikaans Animal Names

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:33 am

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Maybe PARTY animals :dance:

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MATTHYS

Post subject: Re: Afrikaans Animal Names

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:49 am

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Sheenaugh-Lee

Post subject: Re: GEMSBOK

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 8:06 pm

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Bush Baptist wrote:

Sheenaugh-Lee wrote:

.....in English its a Gnu but everyone refers to it as a wildebeest odd don't you think??

Not everybody. It is a gnu to us. :wink:

My family loves to play on the word.

"No gnus is good gnus' etc...

LOL BB now you really sound like my family oil they love that line its how I came to learn in my life what a gnu actually is LOL

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Josh of the Bushveld

Post subject: Re: Afrikaans Animal Names

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:58 am

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But do you know what you get when you cross a horse with a gemsbok?

A gemhors!

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NetEk

Post subject: Re: Afrikaans Animal Names

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:06 pm

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Josh of the Bushveld wrote:

But do you know what you get when you cross a horse with a gemsbok?

A gemhors!

Ja thats one for the afrikaans people. :lol:

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Sheenaugh-Lee

Post subject: Re: Afrikaans Animal Names

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:39 pm

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Josh of the Bushveld wrote:

But do you know what you get when you cross a horse with a gemsbok?

A gemhors!

LMAO FUNNY FUNNY POST

and an AARDVARK is an EarthPig

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