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my side. T. is being polite when he uses the
French (baby-talk) caca for excrements, shit.
Together with the plural/collective prefix ma-
this sounds to me like makaka, sometimes
heard for French macaque, "monkey", a
derogatory, racist term.
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23 Throughout, T. occasionally took questions I
pronounced as "fillers," as requests for
translation. This one is linguistically interesting.
It is not so much a translation but a
paraphrase with only the verbs changed from
French into Swahili.
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24 T. had understood my question, angaliki, "is
he alive", as something like ni giliki, "was he a
Greek?" Hence his response.
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25 T. interrupts his statement to respond to a
question I must have asked (incomprehensible
on the tape) about the source of his
knowledge.
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26 My question shows that I still wasn't sure
whether this was a person's name or some
acronym.
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27 A cryptic statement. I think T. here calls on
his old pen as a kind of witness for the fact that
he has been a writer for a long time.
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References
Lenselaer, Alphonse. (1983). Dictionnaire swahili-français. Paris: Editions Karthala.
Van Avermaet, E. and B. Mbuya. (1954). Dictionnaire kiluba - français. Tervuren: Musée
Royale de l'Afrique Centrale.
[Introduction]
[First Session, Part 1]
[First Session, Part 2]
[Second Session, Part 1]
[Second Session, Part 2]
[Third Session, Part 1]
[Fourth Session]
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