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| From | Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.networking |
| Subject | Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! |
| Followup-To | comp.os.linux.networking |
| Date | 2013-03-10 23:26 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Strider |
| Message-ID | <khj17l$bu3$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <khg3oi$6pt$1@dont-email.me> <khg5fs$3rp$4@dont-email.me> <khg692$kam$2@dont-email.me> <1362941261@f1.n250.z2.fidonet.ftn> <khisdv$4b4$3@dont-email.me> |
Followups directed to: comp.os.linux.networking
On Sunday 10 March 2013 22:02, J G Miller conveyed the following to
comp.os.linux.networking...
> On Sunday, March 10th, 2013, at 18:47:41h +0000, Vince Coen advised:
>
>> In the UK it is a old expression for an object or device that one
>> is not sure what it does
>
> However, the meaning of the term could be somewhat different in the
> Oranje-Vrijstaat Afrikaans.
South Africa is no longer an Oranje-Vrijstaat. It has already been a
completely independent republic for quite some time.
On account of the language, old British expressions are slowly but
steadily being supplanted by slangs from the non-Western local languages
such as Xhosa and Zulu, mixed with Afrikaans proper. Ergo, even though
I'm not sure on the actual subject of a "ding dong" here, I think that
its Afrikaans meaning would be similar to the one given to it here in
the Flanders.
Actually, I believe that something which an unclear definition is simply
called "ding" in Afrikaans, which is the same word as in Dutch and which
means "thing". ;-)
--
= Aragorn =
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Which SSL is links using? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2013-03-09 19:49 +0000
Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-09 20:19 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-03-09 21:34 +0100
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-09 20:59 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! "Vince Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com> - 2013-03-10 18:47 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-10 21:02 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-03-10 23:26 +0100
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-11 15:13 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-03-11 21:09 +0100
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-11 21:14 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-03-11 23:32 +0100
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2013-03-13 21:29 -0400
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-14 01:54 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! Alastair Black <abqab.nemo@example.net> - 2013-03-15 11:28 -0600
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-15 21:05 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! Alastair Black <abqab.nemo@example.net> - 2013-03-15 17:05 -0600
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-15 23:43 +0000
Re: Which SSL is links using? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2013-03-09 14:21 -0800
Re: Which SSL is links using? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2013-03-10 15:18 +0000
Re: Which SSL is links using? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-03-10 15:32 +0000
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