tues., 31 jan., 2023: s. african class distinctions, i.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat & total & entire 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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