Thread: Any Afrikaans speakers

I thought there were a few Van Der Merwes on the forum.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

I thought there were a few Van Der Merwes on the forum.

But they are probably just having their corn flakes and heading off to work at the moment!

Hello from Brisbane.

If a real Afrikaner fails to materialise from within AULRO in the next little while, there are a few lurking around the workplace that I might be able to coax the right translation from.

Cheers,

Hello again.

I have sent a copy of your request to a colleague in Zimbabwe for whom Afrikaans is the native tongue - he also knows something about four wheel drives etc which might help out a bit.

Cheers,

wat presies wil jy weet? - or "what exactly do you want to know?"
A few of those words do not make sense to me and I'd use a better term.
Reversing lamp - tru-lamp (omkeer means turning over - maybe there is a better word but we used to use reverse as well) tru means terug or back - so backing lamp? hopefully someone else has the correct term.
Non-standard trailer wring - nie-standaard bedrading or bedradingstelsel (bedrading means wiring and can be used on it's own - stelsel means system so can be wiring system - suppose you could use either)
The rest looks ok to me, but then I have been here for quite some time!

Hi Louis

This is exactly what I'm asking for, and why no one should ever trust translation bots!

Perhaps I should have expressed it better by merely posting the English terms I want the technical Afrikaans term of.

The English terms I want the Afrikaans for: .
Warning:
Non-Standard trailer wiring: Is the "trailer" redundant or understood? Now "nie-standaard bedrading"
Reversing Lamp: now "tru-lamp"
Service Brakes (electric trailer brakes):
Vehicle ground (earth):
Blackout Stop: (these are part of the military blackout system, on my SADF vehicle they are WWII convoy lamps as used on Canadian Military Pattern trucks with a red lens that operate only when in blackout/convoy mode).

Diana

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

But they are probably just having their corn flakes and heading off to work at the moment!

You want the ones having mealies and biltong.

I asked a couple of white English speaker Zimabwean immigrants I know but their Afrikaans is limited to telling Boer jokes like Americans tell Polish jokes in Chicago and Ole og Lena jokes in Minnesota and Iowa..

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Hi Louis

This is exactly what I'm asking for, and why no one should ever trust translation bots!

Perhaps I should have expressed it better by merely posting the English terms I want the technical Afrikaans term of.

The English terms I want the Afrikaans for: .
Warning:
Non-Standard trailer wiring: Is the "trailer" redundant or understood? Now "nie-standaard bedrading"
Reversing Lamp: now "tru-lamp"
Service Brakes (electric trailer brakes):
Vehicle ground (earth):
Blackout Stop: (these are part of the military blackout system, on my SADF vehicle they are WWII convoy lamps as used on Canadian Military Pattern trucks with a red lens that operate only when in blackout/convoy mode).

Diana

[QUOTE=Lotz-A-Landies;2211873]Hi Louis

This is exactly what I'm asking for, and why no one should ever trust translation bots!

Perhaps I should have expressed it better by merely posting the English terms I want the technical Afrikaans term of.

The English terms I want the Afrikaans for: .
Warning:
Waarskuwing: Non-Standard trailer wiring: Is the "trailer" redundant or understood? Now "nie-standaard bedrading"
Nie-standaard sleepwa bedrading
Reversing Lamp: now "tru-lamp"
Omkeer lamp

Service Brakes (electric trailer brakes):
Service Remme
Vehicle ground (earth):
Voertuig grond
Blackout Stop: (these are part of the military blackout system, on my SADF vehicle they are WWII convoy lamps as used on Canadian Military Pattern trucks with a red lens that operate only when in blackout/convoy mode).

Blackout Stop: (dit is deel van die militêre verduistering stelsel, op my SAW voertuig hulle die Tweede Wêreldoorlog konvooi lampe soos gebruik op die Kanadese Militêre Patroon vragmotors met 'n rooi lens wat slegs wanneer dit in verduistering / konvooi af)