adminKhuphuka Nasingeni
The dictionary as we know it might soon be changed judging by the way the form book and meanings book (dictionary) are being torn to shreds by the happenings around the world.
How many still remember the additions brought to the English dictionary by the World Cup 2010 euphoria of having the first such event in Africa! I need an updated dictionary that has incorporated vuvuzela as an English word.
Just this past week the British filed their divorce papers and the European Union is yet to file its response on whether they divorce immediately, delay or work things out for the sake of the children!
I will not dwell much on that save to say in the countdown to the referendum last week the campaign to exit the EU gained so much traction Brexit, the campaign slogan, became almost a word.
In a week of exits, in which the English exited Euro 2016, Brexit trended and is still trending. In a few years you may be acceptably writing in your English composition that your girlfriend brexited your relationship!
Or you form a new word by simply adding exited at the end of a word! It does not end there, the giant killing act, at least according to observers, by Iceland on England (another Brexit affair) could see Iceland earn the proud distinction of being called a�?giant minnowsa�?.
Again, the dictionary might need some revisiting to add the inferred meanings in the dictionary. Just this week I heard some naughty Zimbabweansa�� term, June-ly; a reference to June salaries paid in July!
Zimbabweans are very good at exaggerating their circumstances.A� We have lost to some small nations before, but it struck me that the Iceland (get your map) population is less than half the population of Bulawayo, for those in England I hear it is slightly smaller than Leicester.
Remember the hullabaloo in Zimbabwe about failing to beat little island nations? I shall say no more.A� Still on losing, Messi appears to have had enough of the losses with the national team. He wants to get his ball and just GO HOME!
Supporters in Buenos Aires do not think so; the city unveiled his statue and pleaded with him to stay.A� I prefer an all-conquering deity, hence I do not understand the campaign. Closer home in South Africa another campaign by a hotelier, to turn back the clock to 1948 appears to be under way. I hear his hotel, which does not accept a�?black clients and government officialsa�?, will have its licence suspended.
You can only suspend his trading licence unfortunately, and his prejudice will remain as deep if not worse than before.
How can we deal effectively with such beings really? He even has the cheek to use the Bible to justify his actions.
Bantu!
UMzo once prided himself with being nicknamed Osama until the ISIS terror really took hold.A� He now takes offence.
Such levels of prejudice can start a war and it is our hope that the likes of Slade are not brewing some UNITA/MNR of sorts.
My discomfort worsened when I read somewhere in the Press that more than 130 kilogrammes of bullets destined for Zimbabwe were impounded from umalayitsha at Beitbridge Border Post.
I had earlier on been watching Donald Trump electioneering about dealing with ISIS and how ISIS was spreading like wild fire in the wake of the Turkey attacks . . . and had dismissed it as election talk. I hope our malayitsha brothers are not importing bomb components unknowingly, more like launching a bomb attack in instalments!A� I am not taking chances but I am also trying not to make people uncomfortable around my bulgy bulletproof jackets.A� My Colombian friends have since referred me to fashion houses that specialise in bulletproof fashion.
Says one source: a�?There is also a wide variety of bulletproof clothing for all budgets.
However, it is important to note that there currently is no protection against blasts or explosionsa��. Ouch!
Very soon you might see me wearing what looks like an ordinary jacket or shirt when it could actually be my shield.
On that explosive note dear reader, I am off to draft my roster(not the mother-in-law kind) for my family so that we all understand we have to take turns to fall ill, and that you cannot be ill month after month without consequences on access to medical cover.A� Forward planning is my strength and with medical aid societies aid expiring, we can only aspire for a�?higher lifea�� yonder, to quote singer Mahendere!
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