Colonialist naming practices were skin-deep

Ancient slavemasters owned it, named it, successfully propagated the name and spelling. Africa. Modern slavemasters, will find it, name it and send a space colony.

During that time Angelo IX will complain that it does not represent him. Angelo IX will be able to spell by that time. A small step for mankind, a giant leap for the Angelo.

I've insulted Angelo for the first time, "HE STARTED IT" haha.
 
I think you have to understand Angelo. He will disagree for the sake of it. No logic will move his POV. Just like the author of that book he quotes. Using a different spelling for effect in the same way another author uses "******" in the title (Capitalist ******). Purely for 'shock' value and to stir controversy.

It's similar to the use of isiXhosa instead of Xhosa. No matter how many times you tell them it is incorrect, they continue to use it twice as much.
=Arrogance.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Actually, no. I am saying Africa is official since it is the official English spelling of the continent, and has been accepted worldwide as the spelling.
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Worldwide acceptance doesn't necessarily mean it's correct. Bombay for example was accepted worldwide even though it was wrong, today it has been correctly restored to Mumbai. Note that I'm not debating the meaning/origin of the word but its spelling, whether it should be with a 'k' or a 'c'.

The 'c' doesn't exist in most Afrikan languages, colonialists just had a tendency to replace the 'k' with the 'c' so that certain words could make sense to them. So basically Afrika is the traditional spelling.
 
I would disagree with you on that one Angelo, much as it may irk you, the continent as a WHOLE was named by colonialists, and therefore the name THEY give it and its spelling is the official and correct one.
 
Angelo said:
The 'c' doesn't exist in most Afrikan languages, colonialists just had a tendency to replace the 'k' with the 'c' so that certain words could make sense to them. So basically Afrika is the traditional spelling.
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LMAO!!!! Taking lessons from a culture that did not have a written language 150 years ago... Angelo, you are an amazing person.

Zulu, like all indigenous Southern African languages, was an oral language until contact with missionaries from Europe, who documented the language using the Latin alphabet. The first written document in Zulu was a Bible translation that appeared in 1883. In 1901 John Dube (1871-1946), a Zulu from Natal, created the Ohlange Institute, the first native educational institution in South Africa.
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Please dont say stick-men on a wall is a written language.
 
ToxicBunny said:
I would disagree with you on that one Angelo, much as it may irk you, the continent as a WHOLE was named by colonialists, and therefore the name THEY give it and its spelling is the official and correct one.
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You seem to be the one who is irked, I never discouraged anyone from using "Africa" but I used Afrika and you moaned.
 
If it weren't for the lazy nature of colonialists, some people would still be wearing traditional g-strings and living off the land by means of bow and arrow, without any form of written language as they did for hundreds of years before civilization came to Southern AfriKa... :rolleyes:

Civilization is nothing but a lame excuse to educate the illiterate so the literate can sit back on their lazy @sses and watch how their children suffer the consequence of their lazy nature... ;)
 
Actually, yes I suppose it does irk me, because in its own small way it is an insult to blithely change the spelling of something, and THEN question how it is supposed to be spelt officially and come up with some excuse that native African languages have no "c" when the method for scribing those languages was brought by the colonialists.

But anyway, I don't want this to turn into a fight or a racist argument so I'm going to excuse myself from this thread..
 
We all know black AfriKa is way behind the drag curve, so what was the argument again?:confused:
 
NoRulez said:
If it weren't for the lazy nature of colonialists, some people would still be wearing traditional g-strings and living off the land by means of bow and arrow, without any form of written language as they did for hundreds of years before civilization came to Southern AfriKa... :rolleyes:

Civilization is nothing but a lame excuse to educate the illiterate so the literate can sit back on their lazy @sses and watch how their children suffer the consequence of their lazy nature... ;)
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Ja, the colonialists tried to get the locals to work, but failed to rouse them from their sleep under the trees, so they imported slaves from Malaysia, China and India to do the labour.:D :D

Angelo said:
Fair enough...I have already exkused myself. :D
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Amazing that a non-English speaker has such a lot to say about the spelling of English. Such arrogance AGAIN!:rolleyes:
 
Skeptik said:
It's similar to the use of isiXhosa instead of Xhosa. No matter how many times you tell them it is incorrect, they continue to use it twice as much.
=Arrogance.
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Just curious, what is incorrect with the use of "isiXhosa"?. I ask because ndithetha (I speak) isiXhosa.
 
BobbyMac said:
the accepted spelling in English is not isiXhosa, but in fact Xhosa.
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I didn't know that there was an acceptable spelling. Always thought the language is most commonly referred as "Xhosa" in English but have seen/heard many cases including wikipedia where "isiXhosa" is used to refer to the language.
 
BobbyMac said:
According to my Oxford English Dictionary, 2005 edition, isiXhosa is not an accepted English word. Xhosa, however, is. So unless the word was added in since to the dictionary, it is not accepted as an English word.
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Is it an English word?
 
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