₦airaland Forum

pkjag:
Watu wangu, nimetekwa sana na majukumu hata muda wa kuwasilisha funzo bado mgumu kupata ila natumai mko poa na nawaomba mnisubiri nitarudi hivi karibuni (My people, I've been so busy that i've found no time to offer lessons but i hope you are fine and i pray that you wait for me coz i'm coming back soon)

OohLalah:
Well, save yourself ungaze ube involved with ababantu whether business, relationship or attend their churches. Mna ndifumanisa ukuba there are very self serving. Abakhathali who's corpse they jump over t ukufumana into abayifunayo. And so far time and time again it has proven to be exactly like people say. Just which watching people around.

But yichoice yomntu, just that xa ubuya ukhala people become very untouched coz you've probably heard the warnings but decided to do it anyway.

PunkyVeer:
Eish, this pm thing is boring. It still not showing so I'll just go straight to yahoo ke. Brace yourself, sana. Hahaha

PunkyVeer:
Does it show anything on your side? Because it only allowed me to send an empty mail. I don't know whether you should reply to it in order for me to be able to type a full message. Cheka.

PunkyVeer:
Ok, I'll send you. Please give me your honest opinion nhe.

Yhoo, I'm so scared..

PunkyVeer:
Kikiki. Unesoka ntombi?

RudzSA:
i agree ...the dead are dead ...period! Sangomas are pap ...Conman just like Nigerian pastors

PunkyVeer:
Ok, sana. Hehehe @ learning Swahili. Usisaphi? I love the Swahili love songs though. The language is just ayoba

PunkyVeer:
Hahaha. Ja ne.

Btw, there's something I want your opinion on but I need to muster enough courage before I do so. Will send you a pm some time. Don't be a stranger, btw Kanti, where do you spend most of your time on Nairaland? I rarely see you around.

Ps: Ungothuki, it's nothing serious ne.

PunkyVeer:
Yebo! lol @ bamuncu. You had Xhosa friends?

Speaking of languages, ucousin wam made me laugh the other day. He was here visiting from ekhaya so he can't speak any Sotho. Anyway, so kudlala langoma ka Dr Malinga on the radio. You know the new one- papa oteng or oteng papa. I'm busy listening to him mumbling & singing along & when it comes to the part le ethi "oteng papa, oteng". Yena uthi "uthengi papa". Hahaha. I never laughed so hard. I said, uthini! Uthi, well, that's how we sing it back home. Eish, it was a funny moment.

PunkyVeer:
Sana, I don't know. I just saw it while going through the thread. I-energy yokulwa sometimes is lacking in me because it doesn't really matter ukuba bathini at the end of the day, it won't change the fact balala emnyameni lol

PunkyVeer:
SMH. No wonder sisokola so. Why abelungu prosper without any of this?

I was not aware kune mfazwe (war) going on la Oh, iNairaland sometimes..

PunkyVeer:
Yes, I believe that it's mind over matter. Into ebhorayo, eg. umzali that didn't care about you while esaphila & then they'll tell you ukuba the same person ufuna wena that you must do something for yena. Like, come on! I was talking with a friend of mine on FB. She's struggling to find work & is almost broke, so uthi uye somewhere & they told her to go enze utywala (umqombothi) before things become right. So she was stressing ngalonto. If these things are for real, then I find them selfish because where do they expect her to get imali yotywala from? Those things don't come cheap, yanno. Mnxm.

PunkyVeer:
Oh ok. Things like that ziyahlupha. Hayisuka! Bathi when you don't do them, ubanamabhadi (bad luck). Sometimes I just don't know what to believe, God alone or God nazo because some churches will also tell you to go do 123 ekhaya 1st. Is prayer not enough kanti? Ukuba ngumntu omnyama = stress la kwamhlaba lol

PunkyVeer:
Ningabazalwane na? No worries, I just thought you knew nje, in general.

PunkyVeer:
Just curious, kraals are not considered sacred in the Sepedi culture? In my culture, that's where they do all the slaughtering for the ancestors. Also where they communicate to the spirits. It's treated like a temple. Only men can go in though.

PunkyVeer:
This story is not completely true. In Swaziland & parts of South Africa they do virginity testing. IT IS NOT COMPULSORY. Those that take part in it, do so on their own accord.

King Muswati DOES NOT choose a wife from the little children, he chooses from the older girls & to my understanding, the girls have a say. They can say, no.

Btw, even his daughters take part in the ceremony. It is called Reed Dance or uMhlanga. The history behind it is that, in the past, they used to send virgin girls to go pick up the reed that would be used to build the palace's cattle kraal. I don't know how it is in West Africa, but in the SADC, the kraal is the most important part of a homestead. It should be pure (women aren't allowed in the kraal) because that's where most family rituals are done, so I guess that's why virgins were allocated the task of picking up the building material. Now times are different, however,not every girl that claims to be a virgin is a virgin, like in the olden days, that's when the testing comes in, just to make sure they're still "pure" before carrying such an important royal task. It has now become part of their lifestyle to remain virgins because they want to be part of the celebrations & of course some have the hope of being the King's next bride. They're there to peacock for him--some & some are just there for the ceremony because it is considered an honour to be part of that.

Anyway, the 1st pic is king muswati's own daughter. She also takes part in the reed dance. The 2nd pic is of the girls, the potential brides to be aka palace's virgin reed pickers. 3rd pic is an example of a kraal.

morpheus24:
My darling Tshwana sister.

How you dey?

juman:
I remember again an ever green music festival in estonia - 2014.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTS4JvKXvMI

pkjag:
The pronounciation is Ahsante, but Asante is also accepted, most muslims at the coast will use arabic pronounciation. Also, you can use any since you are a foreigner, that was just an observation on my part and isn't really necessary.

pkjag:
What's confusing, please specify?

PunkyVeer:
Hahaha. It sure is. The fighting can be tiring sometimes

[/quote]author=pkjag post=36371871]Lugha ya adabu - etiquette in language or language of manners when you literally translate.

Here is where there's a big difference in Kenyan/Tanzanian Swahili. The Tanzanians are very polite and will continuously use these words, however you'll be lucky to find the Kenyans especially in big cities like Nairobi use any of these unless of course you are a foreigner.

Sorry - Samahani normally sorry is pole but in etiquette we use samahani
Forgive me/Excuse me - Niwie radhi normally forgive me is nisamehe but here it's different.
Thank you - Shukrani/shukran normally thanks is Ahsante but mostly/formally you'll hear Shukrani being used.
Let me pass/Excuse me - nipishe njia
Please - Tafadhali

For instance in Tanzania when somebody wants to tell you to get out they'll say Naomba uondoke which literally means I pray that you get out but is intended to mean Please get out. Kenyans rubbish that off and use more abusive language like Toka - Go or Kwenda huko - Get out there, they may not sound abusive but in both countries they are considered rude and only to be used when you are angry. So because Tanzanians use polite language even when angry we say that Watanzania ni wastaarabu wa lugha, ustaarabu here means the state of being civilized.

PunkyVeer:
Niks, liefie lol. U-skaars these days, busy?

morpheus24:
PunKy, Me and you no fit mix o!

I like the ladies who take care of me like a man and I take of them in return.

We cannot both put leg in the same trouser! lol

pkjag:
Wow very good, your mistakes are reducing by the day Also adjectives always come after the nouns, the opposite of English.