Comments on: HelloHowRUIAmFineOkGoodBye

By: smithers

smithers — Thu, 10 May 2007 18:30:21 +0000

Got it, bwana : )

By: kikuyumoja

kikuyumoja — Thu, 10 May 2007 09:07:39 +0000

Ati?! = ~ Ah?! :-)

By: Smithers

Smithers — Thu, 10 May 2007 07:02:32 +0000

Hm… Is there “JKE German” available as well? By the way: “Ati” means ?
Sounds like a phrase I could use 20 time a day. Depending on its meaning, of course.

By: Keguro

Keguro — Thu, 10 May 2007 04:22:27 +0000

T.G. Benson! Good times! I go to it every few months to remember the meaning of the most basic words. I especially love the acknowledgments.

By: kikuyumoja

kikuyumoja — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:49:37 +0000

Harro harro? EXACTLY!

(and it doesn’t get better when I use Swa or Kiuk)

By: Irena

Irena — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:39:14 +0000

Ati lingala -English, I need that for all those Koffi Olomide songs I hum to may be meaning something else than I really thought *sigh* :-)

By: Irena

Irena — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:35:50 +0000

And here I was thinking the conversation went something like this
JKE: Hallo
NwW: Harro
JKE: This is JKE.
NwW: Ati nani?> UUU?
JKE: Kikuyumoja
NwW: Haiya , uhioro uga.ahhh pole how arrr you?
JKE: Fine , fine , na wewe?
NwW: Fin, fin bwana sema, how is gaman? When u r koming bak bwana?

Jke: Since you have met our househelp manze she can be so annoying on the phone (Gid bless her she is amazing lakini phone etiquette), you call and she says harro, harro liek twenty times, then I go ni ciru,then she goes again harro, ati nani, mama , ati nani? unasema nini? Then I go it is ciru,how are you? She goes, sisi tuko sawa, mama hayuko, then another harro, harro, sikusikii, then before I say a word =click she hangs up on me ..mama mia ….I feel your pain LOL