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>>I always think of Meryl Streeps "When I was in Oeuf-rica".<<
...aah yes, but remember that Karen Blixen was Danish, and the action took place much further North
Some of the problems with Sowf Effrikan Inglush is the fact that the Black languages (and there are 11 official languages in Sowf Effrika) have very different vowel sounds, that don't "translate" well to English. "Parking" becomes "Packing", and "work" becomes "wek".
There was a book published in the '60s that offered a guide to the pronounciation of Sowf Effrikan Inglush; it became the sole source of reference by the BBC at the time! The funny thing was that the book was written with tongue firmly in cheek!
But I guess I've gone off-topic...
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