World’s richest woman would prefer to pay her miners $2 a day

[Jaguar]

Sure. A standard of living you think is reasonable for your girlfriend comes at a relatively high cost - one that South Africans typically can't afford. I'm glad she's able to live reasonably, and I wish that all South Africans could live as well as she does.

[Jaguar]

I don't question your knowledge of South Africa. I was here to question molly bloom's. I think you brought in some irrelevant information - such as the minimum price of apartments that your first-world girlfriend looked at - but nothing ignorant.

In contrast, molly bloom was condescending while simultaneously revealing his own ignorance. Would you ask an American corn farmer from Iowa whether he learned a lot of African-American spirituals by working alongside black people? Would you ask a Mississippian whether he's been to a lot of B'nai Mitzvot? Would you ask someone studying at Cambridge whether they picked up Gaelic from the locals?

It's obvious that molly bloom googled some out-of-context, irrelevant stuff in order to pretend to be smarter than Kuciwalker, and it backfired miserably. You and gribbler are ridiculous for pretending that molly bloom did anything different.

[dannubis]

Since in the mines a mixed language is spoken, partially based on Xhosa, I don't see your rebuttal al exeedingly relevant neither.

Besides, anyone knowing 2 ****s about south africa should know Mandela belongs to the Xhosa people, which means that molly probably didn't have to look that far.

[Jaguar]

Since in the mines a mixed language is spoken, partially based on Xhosa, I don't see your rebuttal al exeedingly relevant neither.

Besides, anyone knowing 2 ****s about south africa should know Mandela belongs to the Xhosa people, which means that molly probably didn't have to look that far.

What mixed language are you referring to? Afrikaans?

[dannubis]

Afrikaans is mainly Dutch + Indonesian.

Let me check.

Right, it is called Fanagalo. You can actually understand a bit from it being a non native speaker.

http://www.salanguages.com/fanagalo/index.htm

[Fake Boris]

molly bloom, you don't need a nuanced and detailed understanding of irrelevant details. You need a basic understanding of the actually-relevant concept, which is revealed preference arguments. If people choose A over B, they prefer A to B. That's it. Can we move on now?

It's internally true, just totally meaningless.

[Hauldren Collider]

It's internally true, just totally meaningless.

"Meaningless" would be this post. You try to make yourself seem smart with cryptic twitter-length posts that reveal nothing whatsoever except your lack of understanding of the subject at hand. Much like Molly, only more concise.

[Jaguar]

Afrikaans is mainly Dutch + Indonesian.

Let me check.

Right, it is called Fanagalo. You can actually understand a bit from it being a non native speaker.

http://www.salanguages.com/fanagalo/index.htm

That's largely a historical (nearly-dead) language with only about 2000 words and a few hundred thousand living speakers. It's not a complete language that one can be fluent in, and it isn't based on Xhosa, it's based on Zulu - because that's the actual home language of South African miners.

If molly bloom had done just a little bit more googling, he could have asked Kuciwalker whether he spoke Zulu, and I wouldn't have called him out. He could have also said Sotho. But he didn't. He wanted us all to be impressed with his in-depth knowledge of Africa, but instead he exposed himself as superficial and ignorant.

There are five provinces with big mining industries. North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State and KwaZulu-Natal. Look at the languages they speak. In which of these would Kuciwalker be expected to learn Xhosa? At best, in Free State, the Sotho speakers outnumber the Xhosa speakers 7:1.

Please stop misinforming people about geography just to defend molly bloom's pretentious overreach.

[Hauldren Collider]

Zulu doesn't have the funny Xh in front though. It doesn't sound as Foreign.

[Jaguar]

Zulu doesn't have the funny Xh in front though. It doesn't sound as Foreign.

Not quite that. "Zulu" is actually very exotic-sounding. It's just not obscure enough. Zulus are a well-known people in the west. He chose an obscure language, much like people pretend to like obscure rock bands, so that people would think he was smart.

[giblets]

Who really cares if miners are speaking Xhosa or Zulu? Are you just trying to distract from the issue at hand with personal attacks?

[DinoDoc]

Who really cares if miners are speaking Xhosa or Zulu?

Molly?

[Jaguar]

Who really cares if miners are speaking Xhosa or Zulu? Are you just trying to distract from the issue at hand with personal attacks?

If you and the rest of the Apolyton left would stop concocting feeble defenses to defend one of your own, we could move on. molly bloom pretended to argue from authority, and instead showed his ignorance. Deal with it.

[regexcellent]

Who really cares if miners are speaking Xhosa or Zulu? Are you just trying to distract from the issue at hand with personal attacks?

The point is that molly makes ridiculous attempts to appear to be a Well-Educated and Intelligent Man by name-dropping obscure and irrelevant details that nobody cares about, generally from the first 10 results on google. In this case it's made especially apparent by the fact that he got the irrelevant details he so loves wrong.

[Jaguar]

This.