h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

so, a south african eh?
have you got the strange accent that we all try to imitate in england and end up sound up really stupid doing?
i can remember a guy moving into our neighbourhood in the 80's and he came from SA.
lovely fella.
1st time i ever heard the word kaffir as well.
Now there's a real education that you discover you can learn things and it doesn't even have to be at school, does it?
that didnt go down too well in our rather ethnically diverse multi culteral school.

mind you, not that it didn't stop the rest of us saying it.

ah, the innocence of youth.
you can blame a lot on ignorance, eh?

do you know our 80's show Spitting Image? And it's famous rude song "I've never met a nice South African"?
What passed for humour in the 80's was incredible. It would be politically incorrect these days of course.

i don't have an accent. you english are the ones with the accents.

My 1st language is english, but when i talk in afrikaans, i sound like an englishman trying to speak afrikaans. So i'd be in the same boat as you (except i can understand what i'm saying.)

the funny thing is, when i go in2 chatrooms, i meet americans who think south africa is a full-out third-world country, complete with elephants to ride to school & work. they're AMAZED that we have ELECTRICITY, nevermind computers.

Hi, my first language is English but when I talk to my mates in Liverpool I use Scouse, or to put it another way - iya, me fairst lingo is english but whun ay rabbit ter me mates in der pewl ay use scouse

WTF!!!!

English is a beedie-bop language. Where else can u find a name for a disorder where the people suffering from said disorder can't say it's name (eg: lisp, stutter, etc...)

yep your right, also how about trying to spell dyslextic if your dyslextic

You were SO close! it's dyslexic, there's no t.

there you are, see what I mean

I'm the ONLY 1 in my family that's not dyslexic.

I AM dysgraphic (means my handwriting is atrocious), though.

hey, the graphics on your home page look alright though, haven't got to grips with all that html business, I suppose you could say I'm compterlexic

that's cos i CAN type. if the pc relied on handwriting, my pc would have to learn to understand "SpasticSpiderWhoFellIntoTheInkwellStartedRollingAllOverThePageAndGotAddictedToTheInkSoWentBackForSeconds"

let's try that again

is that because you can type so well

At least my typing's better than my handwriting.