Joined: Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:41 am
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Location: dreaming of the bush
guinea-fowl - spotted bush chickens elephants - hephalumps (i see a lot of people calling them that) giraffe - camel horse (direct translation from the afrikaans)
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Joined: Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:46 am
Posts: 286
Location: Randparkridge, RSA
Our home language is Afrikaans, so here are a couple we use (for our Afrikaans speaking forumites)
Yellow billed hornbill: Piesangneusvoël (Banana nose bird) Impala: Rooi rok Bokkie ( buck with a red dress - after an Afrikaans song) Giraffe: Langkeelperd (long throat horse - the Afrikaans for Giraffe is "kameelperd") Guinea-fowl: sproethoender (chicken with freckles)
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Joined: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:38 pm
Posts: 9893
Location: In the shadow of Table Mountain FAC Member (2012)
My son calls gnu Chinese buffalo because of a constant reference to gnu as buffs by some of those ppl. Baboons are a corruption of their Afrikaans name, BobbyJane.
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crocodile - crooked lizard male kudu - buck with horns waterbuck - dartboard lilac breasted roller - daisy maloo in a tree elephant - heffalump ground hornbill - gooble gooble warthog - aerial pig
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Joined: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:57 am
Posts: 2626
Location: South Africa, Mpumalanga, Middelburg....289km from KNP!!!
Some hilarious nicknames given here!
Yellow-Billed Hornbill----Mlao (pronounced ermlaow) ( have no idea how it got that name, but thats what we call it ) Kori Bustard----B@$t%rd$ Warthogs----Pumbaaz Hyena----Heenaz Buffalos----Buffs Impala----Bok
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Joined: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:03 pm
Posts: 6646
Location: Upington RSA FAC Member (2012)
Impala - Weer bokke ( again buck just don't sound the same as in afrikaans) Sandgrouse and Francolin - Chickens Warthogs - Vrakkies ( pigs - but in afrikaans and the R must be after the V)
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Joined: Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:29 am
Posts: 1894
Location: Worcester , Cape
When we visited KNP way back when our kids were still kids , they looked at all the ellie dung , and immediately called it " baff " , referring to the sound it makes when hitting the ground . For a week long we kept on hearing from the backseat " baff , another baff " , " wow , look at that baff " .
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