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Permalink Reply by Susan Young on February 25, 2013 at 3:16pm

I'm from Kleinmond, South Africa!

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Permalink Reply by tom sarbeck on February 25, 2013 at 3:37pm

Welcome, Susan.

Is "kleinmond" a combined German/French term for "small world"?

Several European nations, Germany among them, once colonized in Africa.

My mother and my dad's parents spoke German but none of them taught it in the family.

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Permalink Reply by Susan Young on February 25, 2013 at 4:19pm

Hi Tom,

"Kleinmond" is an Afrikaans word meaning "small mouth" because the small town is located at the mouth of the Bot River lagoon.

Afrikaans is the language of the Afrikaans people - descended from the Dutch Calvinists and French Huegenots who colonized the Cape in the 1650s. Afrikaans was originally Dutch but it is a very bastardized language now. It is one of our 11 official languages (it was the official language in the old South Africa!). South Africans of British descent are considered a separate ethnic group from Afrikaners (out first language is English).

It's too bad that parents don't teach their kids their mother tongues! I am quite saddened that so many Afrikaans families now speak only English with their kids. Afrikaans is only spoken here in SA, so it could become extinct quite quickly. oh well, evolution and all that...

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Permalink Reply by Shillamus on February 27, 2013 at 6:16pm

They tell me I am on a planet called earth

I am not big on where I am from.

But I am glad to be here.

Peace

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Permalink Reply by Harimurali Singaram on March 5, 2013 at 10:38pm

I'm from Singapore. Cheers!

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Permalink Reply by Carolyn on March 6, 2013 at 6:59am

Welcome to AN! Singapore, wow. Last night I was chatting with a new member in Lebanon. I hope religion continues to decline.

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Permalink Reply by Harimurali Singaram on March 6, 2013 at 11:34pm

Many thanks Carolyn. Happy to be here. I hope the delusions end too. 

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Permalink Reply by tom sarbeck on March 13, 2013 at 5:34pm

Welcome, Buckeye, from a long-ago Cincinnatian, then Floridian, then Texan, then Arizonan, and now Californian. (And there's never been a sheriff looking for me!)

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Permalink Reply by Scott on March 15, 2013 at 8:01pm

Scott here. I am from Manila, Philippines.

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Permalink Reply by Dogly on March 15, 2013 at 8:09pm

Hi Scott, You certainly are outnumbered there, aren't you.  Welcome!

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Permalink Reply by Scott on March 17, 2013 at 10:11pm

yes we are overwhelmingly outnumbered.

Thanks a lot for welcoming me. :)

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Permalink Reply by E Gross on March 16, 2013 at 1:56pm

I'm from an very Orthodox Jewish community south of Jerusalem. Yup, I'm outnumbered too! :D It's one of those "Oh, wow, I'm an atheist! Oh crap, this is gonna get really weird..." lol So this is my outlet.

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