Sipetile

Black English

Just got this e-mail from a friend:

TOP 10 English words only black people know the proper meaning of

10. Groovy
Real meaning: Very pleasing
Black meaning: 340ml soft drink can

9. Cold drink(pronounced coldrink)
Real meaning: Opposite of hot drink
Black meaning: Any soft drink especially coke

8. Scuff tin
Real meaning: Scuff - Mark resulting from scraping, Tin - can
Black meaning: Lunch box

7. Ball pen (pronounced Bolben)
Real meaning: Ball point pen
Black meaning: Any pen

6. I'm Sure (pronounced Amsho)
Real meaning: I'm certain
Black meaning: Maybe

5. Gym Dress (Pronounced Jimdress)
Real meaning: Gym - Gymnassium, Dress - Womens clothing
Black meaning: Girls School dress/uniform

4. Double Up (pronounced Dablap)
Real meaning: Twice as much in size
Black meaning: Short cut

3. Straight Back
Real meaning: Extending continuously in a backwards direction without curving
Black meaning: Corn rows

2. Relax
Real meaning: Calm Down
Black meaning: Chemical Hair Straightening

1. PUSHBACK
Real meaning: Cause to move back by force or influence.
Black meaning: Very Popular hairstyle where hair is combed away from face.


Life Time Award Winners:
Growth - Growing, Natural hair growing when you haven't relaxed in a long time Jealous down? - ....um? - Lacking sight,

posted by Sipetile @ 2:16 AM Comments: 2

Xhosa Blog

I don't know how many other people out there have a Xhosa blog, but baby I do! Just put up my first post, sure I have used Xhosa in my English blog but this one has just about everythingin Xhosa, even the prompts on the dashboard, sidebar, etc. Cool huh? Got it from iblog and they give you a language prefrence and i thought hey, what the heck, why not Xhosa blog. Sure enough my Xhosa writing skills are shocking but at least its readable, so there! Its on http://www.tshisa.iblog.co.za/, ya the tshisa isn't very original, but baby I'm on fire so what the heck...its still quite bland right now but i'm definitly going to spruce it up. So watch this space...

posted by Sipetile @ 2:09 AM Comments: 3

TV baby here i come

So I have been a new media student for the past two years and these holidays I have been working with Cue TV and went on a couple of shoots during fest and did some editing and direscting of producing of my own and BOY OH BOY did I have a BALL!!! So this is definitly my next mediu mof choice, just crossing fingers that I will be accepted in 4th term on exception of passing my current course since I havn't done any of the work I was meant to do for the beginning of next term...I'll be right on it!:/ depending on whether anything distracts me from now on or not.

posted by Sipetile @ 8:05 AM Comments: 1