Just because you’ve lived in Joburg for a year or two does not mean you’ve forgotten how to speak your mother tongue properly – be it Sepedi, isiZulu, isiXhosa ... Stop peppering your speech with “mara, mara”; mara se moer, writes Fred Khumalo
Unlike in the city, where they are faceless, overworked bodies, where their cars are considered average, back home they suddenly develop a spring in their step. Their egos swell like vetkoek made of self-raising flour.
Just because you’ve lived in Joburg for a year or two does not mean you’ve forgotten how to speak your mother tongue properly – be it Sepedi, isiZulu, isiXhosa ... Stop peppering your speech with “mara, mara”; mara se moer! If you are Zulu-speaking, and you’re back in the kingdom by the coast, don’t pretend you’ve forgotten that an egg is “iqanda”, not “icanda”. Don’t say amabhanana; it’s ubhanana.
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