[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to
give offense. Which is the whole & compleat point of insult &
invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]
AFRIKAANS: So’n Bergie! ‡‡
‡) “What a low-life down-&-outer hillbilly
bum!” Lit., “Mountain person” =
i.e. & e.g., but not ibid, usually
pejorative term for “down-&-outer”, “vagrant”, “street
person”, “Homeless person”, “Bum” ;
Etym., Capetown idiom derived fr. Afrikaans, Dutch,
Germ., Berg = Mtn.; refered
to Capetown’s Table Mtn., site of vagrant encampments
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