Link: “Ryanair Afrikaans test: Why South Africa loves and loathes the language”
A short article that makes its point very efficiently about the duality of Afrikaans – its origins in the thoroughly mixed Coloured community of the Cape, and its recent history as a language of severe repression. Came across it via this Mastodon thread , which I liked in its own right.
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.