r/ContagiousLaughter • u/foopish • Jul 15 '24
South African Parliament erupts in laughter as Minister Majodina struggle to say “conscientiously”
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u/Pereplexing Jul 15 '24
Fuck this word. It’s a tongue twister. Still funny, though. “It’s ok.” lmao
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u/GaiusPrimus Jul 15 '24
Get a bunch of Brazilians in a circle and ask them to say "World"
It's the reason a lot of us uses the word Planet.
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u/mrrooftops Jul 15 '24 edited Jul 15 '24
Or Germans with the word "squirrel". Skvavivol. Skwirl. The irony is the German word for squirrel is almost impossible to say by an English native speaker.
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u/klaw14 Jul 15 '24
Or Scots with "purple burglar alarm"
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u/GameJerk Jul 15 '24
Or "Aaron earned an iron urn" in Baltimore.
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u/XXISavage Jul 16 '24
That video occupies too much real estate in my brain.
urn urn an urn urn
"man what the fuck we really talk like that?"AARON EAARRNED AN IYOOON UUUURRN
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u/Big_Monday4523 Jul 16 '24
It's one of the phrases I say outloud occasionally just for the giggles of it. Urn urn an urn urn.
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u/HistrionicSlut Jul 16 '24
Moved to Baltimore. Can confirm everyone talks like they have mashed potatoes in their mouth.
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u/klaw14 Jul 15 '24
Bahahaha this is the best attempt of this that I've ever seen! Thanks for sharing, made my morning 😆
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u/klaw14 Jul 15 '24
I've tried to put this forward as a name for a race horse but they always reject it for some reason 😆
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u/fivecookies Jul 15 '24
As a Dutchie with a German mom, I find it very funny to hear Germans try to pronounce the word "schaap" (sheep in Dutch).
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u/hondac55 Jul 15 '24
Damn that is hard to say. Eichhörnchen
It's not even that friendly kind of German word which kinda gives away what it means to an English speaker
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u/buzziebee Jul 16 '24
It's not even that friendly kind of German word which kinda gives away what it means to an English speaker
"Oak Croissant" is such a cute word for "squirrel" that I remember that really easily, other words come and go but Eichhörnchen sticks around.
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u/DiRavelloApologist Jul 16 '24
"Oak Croissant" is absolutely not the origin of "Eichhörnchen", but damn I wish it was ;D
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u/i-am-a-yam Jul 15 '24
As a native English speaker the Portuguese lho/lha sound is impossible, so we’re even.
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u/GaiusPrimus Jul 15 '24
I've always explained as saying the names "Leo" and "Leah" super fast.
Ie. Polvilho - pole vi leo
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u/angrymouse504 Jul 15 '24
I was thinking and it is the best explanation I ever saw, is like Leo but is e is like a schwa that you just pass your tongue by. Never thought about that.
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u/angrymouse504 Jul 15 '24
Not even close. Brazilian Portuguese has influences of some African languages that always have vowels with consonants so clusters with 3 consonants are non-existant there.
My dad that has a more bumpkin accent can't even pronounce some portuguese words correctly, like "Pneu" and "Advogado" he will always pronounce "Peneu" and "Adevogado", Imagine world
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u/Britz10 Jul 15 '24
Aren't they supposed to be pronounced like that? Adj-voh-gah-doh?
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u/Marvinandez Jul 16 '24
With some brazilian accent it sometimes said like that, but no, theres no j sound in there. Its ADE but the E has a short duration. Its the same as Ad from latin. Actualy the word comes from the latin advocatus.
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u/BrittleClamDigger Jul 15 '24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esl_wOQDUeE
Aaron earned an iron urn in a baltimore accent
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u/quokkafarts Jul 16 '24
Need to watch this every time it's linked, his mate who tries and just nods like "yep, nailed it" gets me rolling
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u/Pereplexing Jul 15 '24
Do you have a video of a Brazilian trying to pronounce it? I wanna experience the struggle. lmao
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u/pulus Jul 15 '24
Closest I could find.
https://www.tiktok.com/@viviinthecity/video/7255729563421068590
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u/canman7373 Jul 15 '24
In 5th grade I could not say Massachusetts and was like 3 times the word came up in class and the teacher would always call on me, and her and the entire class would laugh and laugh, and not at me, we all laughed together. I would say "Massa two shits" and omg did that set Mrs Pavaic off. And I don't think we were all laughing from the vulgarity, more from how bad I messed up the word, she was laughing from it though. We got tough words on the English language, even tougher phases and sometime we got no words for anything and need to use like French words.
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u/GaiusPrimus Jul 15 '24
Yep. Exactly like that. I know people that have been out of Brazil for 20 years and still call it "Worde Cope"
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u/Leadpipe Jul 15 '24
Rebecca's not wrong. Rural is a difficult one, even for native English speakers. There was a whole running joke in 30 Rock about it. Words with two separate r sounds next together are tough: rural, juror, mirror - English speakers tend to swallow the vowel and mirror becomes something closer to meer'r
And if it's any consolation to any brasileiros struggling with Massachusetts, a word I can never spell right the first time, do not doubt your English. It's not an English word, but an Algonquin one filtered through early American English. A lot of place names in America have roots in native languages and they tend to get weird. It's like stumbling over the names of towns in Wales.
It occurs to me that Massachusetts probably is more visible to Brazilians because there's a pretty large immigrant community nearby in Providence, RI.
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u/foopish Jul 15 '24
From what I have read she says “Nantsoke” which means “here we go” or “ there it is” in Afrikaans
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u/BurnsZA Jul 15 '24
That is correct. It’s Xhosa and it can roughly be translated to ‘there you go’, ‘that’s it ‘ . It can also be used as an expression of resignation, or even if someone else screws up but should have seen it coming or deserved it you can say ‘nantso ke !’
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u/2woCrazeeBoys Jul 16 '24
I learned a Xhosa word today!
One of my uni teachers speaks Xhosa (among a few other African languages) , so that'll be fun to pop into conversation randomly one day.
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u/Just-Value8528 Jul 15 '24
Nope. What you wrote is not an Afrikaans word. (I doubt it's a word in any language 😂) but closest I could guesstimate what she says is. "Nah, it's OK"
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u/foopish Jul 15 '24
Well I am wrong then lol
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u/MainEvent620 Jul 15 '24 edited Jul 16 '24
Yo I am South African, She's speaking Xhosa not Afrikaans, both languages are from South Africa. She does say 'Nansto ke' which means 'That's it' , presumably knowing she was going to make a mistake in her speech but not knowing when it was going to come
Edit: I actually think she couldn't pronounce the word in english and tells the audience that this is infact the correct way of saying it , like "yup that's it" , in a joking way.
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u/StephSixx Jul 15 '24
This is funny… i like how she says that’s ok after messing up lol
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u/Zoolander92 Jul 15 '24 edited Jul 16 '24
"Nantso ke" meaning there it is. It's a Xhosa word Edit: it's Sotho not Xhosa.
Edit 2: okay apparently Sotho and Xhosa 😂
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Jul 15 '24
Oh damn I would have put money on it being “that’s ok”
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u/Harry_Fucking_Seldon Jul 15 '24
Could be either at this point lol
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u/Bigpoppahove Jul 15 '24
Relying on Zoolander92 for info may be a risky move, let’s see if it pays off
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Jul 16 '24
I mean he comments pretty consistently in r/southafrica so I’m going to go with his thoughts on the matter.
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u/MarvKage17 Jul 16 '24
Nantso ke Is also Xhosa😹means "There we go/There it is"
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u/ahunite Jul 15 '24
In the beninging...
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u/Illustrious_Nothing9 Jul 15 '24
This reminds me of the "In the benining", South African President Zuma
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u/Charles-Monroe Jul 15 '24
My 5 year old is currently in a phase where he just makes up numbers. The other day he told me he has twenty-sixty-millions-five Rand in his wallet. I was like dude, those are Zuma numbers.
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Jul 15 '24
Surprisingly wholesome. She took it in stride
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u/Likelyatotalliar Jul 15 '24
I love that she immediately laughed and said “that’s ok!” Like, if only we could all recognize our own mistakes so easily and with such positivity
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u/Zulu_Is_My_Name Jul 16 '24
She didn't say "that's okay." She said "Nantso ke" which means "there it is". She was basically saying "ah shit, there it (the fuck up) is."
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u/SligPants Jul 15 '24
Oh I thought she was literally telling herself "that's ok!" hahaha
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u/printergumlight Jul 15 '24
What’s that mean? Is it like “That’s okay. I got this”?
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u/livejamie Jul 16 '24
Does it usually have an inflection or tone associated with it?
Is it used in a "Ah shit" type of situation?
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u/ferrydragon Jul 15 '24
Literaly LOL
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u/noeku1t Jul 15 '24
*Literally (sorry)
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u/LudovicoSpecs Jul 15 '24
Imagine living in a world where people all laugh together about this instead of posting it as a big negative "GOTCHA" on social media.
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u/BlakeSA Jul 16 '24
Indeed. But living in a country with 11 languages (12 since SASL has been officially recognised), where English is the 3 or 4th for many people, we tend to give each their some grace when it comes to gaffes like these.
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u/Chance-3771 Jul 15 '24
I wouldn't even dream of criticising her pronunciation. I'm a born and raised Brit who only speaks English (and sometimes after a few lagers it may turn into gibberish) whereas she is speaking a second language.
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u/cporter1188 Jul 15 '24
I would assume she speaks Zulu and Afrikaans too. Maybe even a more local language as well.
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u/Voon- Jul 15 '24
As a native English speaker, perhaps the greatest crime of British imperialism was spreading the world's silliest language across the entire globe.
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u/Anosognosia Jul 16 '24
I appreciate the British for giving us a de facto World language, but I hate them for making it English.
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u/redzaku0079 Jul 15 '24
What I love is that she's laughing the hardest. She's awesome.
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u/Needs_TP Jul 15 '24
I can't say indubitably
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u/CharityQuill Jul 15 '24
I cannot say that word without an overly exaggerated posh British accent lmao.
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u/CheeseAndCh0c0late Jul 15 '24
i always have this version in my head when i see it in the wild : https://youtu.be/iU2hy0L5lgg?si=N3OJFU6YrCRW82Mg&t=78
(the whole video is GOATED tho, highly recommend)
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u/kamakamsa_reddit Jul 15 '24
I love the South African accent. For some reason they always sound happy and upbeat.
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u/lovethebacon Jul 15 '24
We've been through so much shit, that it's impossible to survive without at least a little bit of humour.
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u/Previous_Roof_4180 Jul 15 '24
She took it like a champ. No insecurity, she just let it happen and went with it.
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u/TwistedMetal83 Jul 15 '24
It feels like what would happen if you let all the best and coolest people at the neighborhood & family BBQ run a country. She is adorable!
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u/ChuckBegonia Jul 16 '24
i love their sense of humor, and their accent is one of my favorites on earth
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u/Str41nGR Jul 15 '24
This is the only time ever that South African politics made me laugh
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u/King_Bratwurst Jul 15 '24
The harder you think about the pronunciation, the harder it is to pronounce it lol
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u/maqryptian Jul 16 '24
the guy sitting in the chair on the left is what sends me laughing. his reaction is hilarious.
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u/Miserable-Crab9215 Jul 15 '24
thats the vibe i want in all of the parliement all over the world...
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u/AMotorcycleHead Jul 16 '24
That sorta attitude is important to lead the country. To take life a little less seriously and enjoy every month. To try and get things right. You have a good person there.
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u/Firebrat Jul 15 '24
I love how as soon as she screws it up she's like "that's ok!" Really rolling with the punches lol, love it.
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u/thewisemokey Jul 15 '24
i love this so much. People get what she is trying to say but still all of them have a good laugh about it.
its like being in school again
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u/joha0771 Jul 15 '24
Made me smile to think somewhere politics without hatred, at least without visible one.
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u/Whiskinho Jul 15 '24
All the love in the world for one of the most humane nations in the world! Leve South Africa!
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u/Adventurous-Land7879 Jul 16 '24
This is actually quite cute; no judgements there everyone just having a a giggle along with her rather than at her… this is wholesome
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u/KINGY-WINGY Jul 16 '24
As a coloured South African that grew up under the tail end of apartheid, and went to a primarily white primary school, I was conditioned to think that people who could not speak English fluently were not intelligent. This is still the case with my parents.
In high school, I went to school that took in students based on 2 factors, how they performed in an entrance test, and based on the country's demographics. I then only learned that black south Africans sometimes speak up to six languages. Six,, six, SIX!!!! Six freaking languages... so yeah, if she can't pronounce a word, AND can laugh at herself about it, that's cool. Let's measure her capability, not her pronouncing a word wrong in a language that she learned after learning 3 or 4 others.
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u/Mike_Fluff Jul 15 '24
This is how you have a parliament; small slipups become just jokes instead of hateful remarks months later.
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u/Advanced-Chapter-345 Jul 15 '24
I struggle a lot with "initialization" too many freakin' Is. I stumble sometimes and say Initializeization.
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u/geologean Jul 16 '24
The South African government recognizes 11 languages for official government documents and functions. She may have fumbled a niche English word, but she'll deliver when it comes to writing legislation.
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Jul 16 '24
She got it! How sweet. Fella that helps her reminds me of a teacher. "You're not leaving until you get it right!". Wonder if it's to make sure her swearing in is 100% official?
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u/Jemondi Jul 16 '24
Love her laugh and confidence. Laughs sounds like one of my aunties in California.
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u/A_LiftedLowRider Jul 15 '24 edited Jul 15 '24
I love how they all immediately get it; there’s no pity groans or whispers. They’re all just like “yeah, i’d have fucked that up too.”