Glad that the cats are safe 🤣
The German "Henne" is "Hen" here for a female chicken in Afrikaans.
Yes, if we are not sure about the gender then it becomes an "it".
I wonder if the "Hun" word used by the Allies in the war for German soldiers was taken from "Henne" to mean that they are chickens? Strange huh?
A female pig is a "sow" and maybe the Germans confuse it with "Sow how are you"?🤣
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So all languages have their strange grammatics I believe, but German belongs to the most complicated in my opinion 😉
Hun comes from Atilla the Hun, says Wikipedia 😁
Sow how are you - that's a good one 😂
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Have you tried Latin and Mandarin, or Greek and Hebrew?
Ah! now I wonder what Atilla the Hun had to do with someone coining the Hun titles for Germans. And who it was that coined the title. Montgommery? Churchill?
Hahaha, I am well thank you 🤣🤣🤣
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Haha, I have no idea if you are right, because I have never tried to learn any of these languages, although I know the Greek alphabet. I would never be able to learn the thousands of Chinese letters, at least not in my age 😉
I haven't read further why and who thought first of calling them Hun.
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Yeah and to me languages have also become a nightmare. Marian is good at it, as she marks many international students, but since my English teaching days I haven't touched it again.
The Kaiser of Germany, Wilhelm ll, called the German soldiers Huns in 1900.
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I can greet or order food and such in the languages of our surrounding countries, but I can't read or write - English is enough, everyone speaks English, even the Chinese 😉
So you looked it up - nice 😉
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Now if you want a head spinner then read this Hannes,
And I only know two of them and smatterings of the others!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_South_Africa
I don't know anyone that can speak all of the 35 languages in our country!
Yeah, I just had to know who called them huns first. Amazing that it was German who called his own people by a deregotary name!
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I think we have been talking before about the many languages in South Africa? I can't remember if it was you, but I remember that someone has already told me about them. But it doesn't matter - these are so many languages that I wouldn't even be able to remember their names.
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