Stuff that happened to you that doesnt deserve a thread

[RainstormZA]

@roomfogger Waar de hel is jy boet, I laughed so hard at that now. Brilliant! ! Romea and Juliet was actually child's play compared to Macbeth. Bubble bubble, toil and trouble...wth?!!

Hahahahaha i did Macbeth in my last year of school

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[Room Fogger]

I loved Thief's Magic by Trudi Canavan... Need to get the other 3 books that go with them.

On another note, i wrote another CompTIA exam today and passed by the skin of my teeth

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Congratulations man, great news, 50 is a pass, 51 you overdid it on the study part. Just joking, good luck with the rest you still have to do.

 

[Room Fogger]

I love any book, except maybe biographies, my favorites are Lois Lamour, Matthew Reilly, David Baldadchi, Andy McNab, Jeffrey Archer, Ludlum, Wilbur Smith. Anything actually, if you have a book you can never be lonely.

 

[Spongebob]

Dont remember which play it was from, but a phrase i will never forget, drummed into our skulls, " my heart laments that virtue cannot live without the teeth of emulation!"
Or something along those lines...

Still dont know what it means??? Anyone???

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[Carnival]

Dont remember which play it was from, but a phrase i will never forget, drummed into our skulls, " my heart laments that virtue cannot live without the teeth of emulation!"
Or something along those lines...

Still dont know what it means??? Anyone???

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Google to the rescue!

When I searched for “teeth of emulation meaning” this came up:

He says, ''my heart laments that virtue cannot live / Out of the teeth of emulation,'' meaning he is sad that a virtuous man like Caesar cannot live without other people being jealous of him and plotting against him.

 

[Spongebob]

Aaaah, thanx @Carnival many moons mystery solved and yes now i remember julius ceasar

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[Spongebob]

Die afrikaanse ouens.....wie onthou die boek van Bart iemand een of aner mal ou wat met aartappels gepraat het en dan moes ons ontleed wat in sy kop aangegaan het?

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[RainstormZA]

Aaaah when i was a kid, i watched Liewe Heksie and Heidi in afrikaans

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[Room Fogger]

Boet, I still have a Liewe Heksie lp stashed away! And Heidi was never to be missed, as was .Nils Holgerson and Brakanjan and the 3 musketeers.

Dam, think I'm giving my age away here, but it is such fond memories of childhood, like our first black and white Blaupunkt tv, and the hour test transmission.

Or the stories on Springbok Radio in the afternoons

 

[Caramia]

Die afrikaanse ouens.....wie onthou die boek van Bart iemand een of aner mal ou wat met aartappels gepraat het en dan moes ons ontleed wat in sy kop aangegaan het?

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At Nel, seun van Bart Nel; en Die Son Struikel met Diederik Versveldt, het mos homselwers neergepletter in die rooigras - as point interest, we spoke to Dolf van Niekerk who wrote the book, and he was flabbergasted about the "naelstringmotief" and the "aartappel" connection, he said nothing was intended by him writing that, he "simply wrote the bloody book", but still we wrote a plethora of essays regarding that... "die son styg, struikel, kyk, en stryk aan..."

 

[Hooked]

Ons het "Fiela se kind" gelees @Steyn777

Ons ook - baie geniet. Ek het die movie jare terug gesien en dit was ook goed.

 

[TheV]

I love any book, except maybe biographies, my favorites are Lois Lamour, Matthew Reilly, David Baldadchi, Andy McNab, Jeffrey Archer, Ludlum, Wilbur Smith. Anything actually, if you have a book you can never be lonely.

Ice Station was the most ridiculous amount of fun ever crammed into a single novel

 

[Hooked]

That would definitely solve the problem...it's just, it annoys me that I have to spend extra money because of someone else's poor service.

Don't be to hard on them, we are actually much more lenient with english folk when they speak afrikaans, because we know it's not your fault. While we were reading Shakespeare in school during our 2nd language classes, you guys read stuff like Kees die bobbejaan. So we can't expect you to speak Afrikaans at the same level we speak English.

@Silver ah, I remember something like that. Hehe, hated that book, then again, we read it before High School.
How did the people in charge of stuff like this think? I mean no disrespect to Dalene Mathee, but vs Shakespeare?? That's like Mozart vs that cat that played keyboard.

@Steyn777 Which Afrikaans authors are equivalent to Shakespeare? Ah ... there's the rub! There is none, since Afrikaans is a new language. Perhaps Dutch authors of the same era as Shakespeare could be read. Dutch would be comprehensible to a point, though many words would need explanatory study notes - just as with Shakespeare.

 

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We started serious Shakespeare "The Tempest" in standard 7/Grade 9 (when my English was still very flaky), and every Shakespeare play from there on, right through Varsity in English 101 (first year requirement for BSc Town Planning), with the Norton Anthology of Poetry as an added "advantage" - how I managed to pass English 101 first time, was a miracle.

@Caramia You said "when my English was still very flaky". What is your home language, if I may ask?

What on earth has English Literature got to do with a BSc Town Planning??

I loved the Norton Anthology of Poetry in English 101. By the time I'd completed my BA I hated it lol!

 

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Willem Wikkelspies - Romeo and Juliet matric for English, we rented the movie about 5 times just to get an inclination of what was actually meant by tying it up with the pictures. "Wherefore art thou Romeo", "waar de hel is jy boet" was a firm favorite interpretation.
En a specials "treat" vir Afrikaans - Koning van Katoren in hoog Hollands, there was no end to the phsycological torture on that one, nobody understood it.

@Room Fogger I just love the "waar de hel is jy boet"! If Shakespearan plays could be rewritten in local lingo, in study notes, students wouldn't hate it as much, since they would understand the story. The story is still relevant to today. A college in one of the extremely bad areas of New York (I think) did this, focusing on the aspects of gang warfare (which the students in that area could relate to) and what happens when you fall in love with someone from another gang.

 

[Hooked]

@Steyn777 , I tend to read more English, but must maybe do a couple of Afrikaans ones again, and yes, I like the paper versions more. The smell of a book add to the pleasure. I think as a nation we do not read nearly enough!

I also love reading and the smell of paper. I used to read every night. I still do - but the contents of the ecigssa forum! I really must get back into my book-reading...

 

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@roomfogger Waar de hel is jy boet, I laughed so hard at that now. Brilliant! ! Romea and Juliet was actually child's play compared to Macbeth. Bubble bubble, toil and trouble...wth?!!

Ah!!!! Macbeth is my favourite! Interesting that Lady Macbeth, who was the mastermind, ended up with OCD!

 

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i cleaned out my gmail account and made same folders . now i cannot receive ecigssa notify emails. get in box emails but not following emails , mmm what did i do wrong not in spam folders

@Moerse Rooikat What do you receive in your Inbox? What do you mean by "following" emails" Are you referring to "watched" threads?

 

[Hooked]

Hulle weet nie hoe om te kook nie, agree on R&J, I'm doing Macbeth this year apparently as it is Locust2's book for grade 12. Going to have to sharpen my quil and see if I am still able to help.

@Room Fogger lol at "Hulle weet nie hoe om te kook nie", or perhaps they were DIY vapers! The first recorded DIY in vaping history!

 

[Caramia]

@Caramia You said "when my English was still very flaky". What is your home language, if I may ask?

What on earth has English Literature got to do with a BSc Town Planning??

I loved the Norton Anthology of Poetry in English 101. By the time I'd completed my BA I hated it lol!

My home language is Afrikaans.

No idea, but had to have it with the first year Med students, all with chips on their shoulders
I still have the book here on the shelf, and after all these years I am still trying to "face my fears" by looking at it every day

 

[Hooked]

@Steyn777 , I tend to read more English, but must maybe do a couple of Afrikaans ones again, and yes, I like the paper versions more. The smell of a book add to the pleasure. I think as a nation we do not read nearly enough!

I've realised that Afrikaans people usually read English books. Why is that?

 

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Well done on passing another exam @RainstormZA !!

 

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My home language is Afrikaans.

No idea, but had to have it with the first year Med students, all with chips on their shoulders
I still have the book here on the shelf, and after all these years I am still trying to "face my fears" by looking at it every day

@Caramia I thought perhaps you were Italian because of your forum name!

lol about the Med students! I never knew they have to study English Lit. I understand that language ability is important whatever field you're in or are going to be in, but instead of Shakespeare they should rather have courses in practical English. I love Shakespeare and I love(d) poetry, but university students don't have the time to spend on something that is irrelevant to them.

 

[Hooked]

I love any book, except maybe biographies, my favorites are Lois Lamour, Matthew Reilly, David Baldadchi, Andy McNab, Jeffrey Archer, Ludlum, Wilbur Smith. Anything actually, if you have a book you can never be lonely.

@Room Fogger I agree about the lonely part and, in addition, you can never be bored. I always take a book with me if I have a medical/dental appointment, because waiting drives me up the wall!! And there's nothing better than reading a book and having an Irish Coffee at a coffee bar!

 

[Hooked]

I've been reading all of the above with my coffee and first-vape-of-the-day (currently Merak Infusion - Eleanor (Irish Coffee) and what an interesting discussion! How on earth did we get on to Shakespeare? I don't even remember!