I've noticed that the food we eat at funerals is not cooked with salt. One of my colleagues from Soweto says that this seems to be a Xhosa custom. But I think that the other meals that I have had are also without salt. I can't find anything on the internet. Exploration needed!
Xhosa word for the week. I know that Kulungile means 'it is good'. I asked someone how to say 'it is better'. He thought for a while and then was embarrassed and said that they sometimes borrow from the English and he couldn't think of a 'proper' Xhosa phrase. So the answer is 'kubettele'.
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In Zulu there is "kulungile kakhulu", which means "very good" rather than better. I'm not a Zulu fundi, but there is a way of saying that A is good but B is better than A.
Thanks Steve. It is the same in Xhosa. I was hoping that you might know something about the salt?
I once ministered in your parts. I called up candidates for Confirmation, then when they stood before me I said "Kulungile" -- thinking I was saying "OK, good" -- and they all dispersed! Methinks I missed some other meaning.
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