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IIRC "Afrikaans" literally means "African" (in Dutch and, uhm, Afrikaans).
by _0ffh 9y ago
IIRC "Afrikaans" literally means "African" (in Dutch and, uhm, Afrikaans).
- caio1982 9y agoIt does, but it may sound derogatory because African has a much wider and broad meaning than a specific Dutch word (used in a singular colonized area).
- wavefunction 9y agoAnd in any case, it's Afrikaans in English as well as Dutch, so 'African' while perhaps a literal translation into English is not really something with meaning in English.