Tuesday, May 24, 2005

For my South African friends

(People unfamiliar with the ways of our female co-religionists in Darkest Africa shouldn't try to understand this. They're a world apart, psychologically as well as geographically.)

In the true spirit of modern democratic Sarth Efrika, the ladies of the Jewish communities have decided to demonstrate that they are fully tuned-in to, and comfortable with, the social milieu of "the New South Africa" by learning and frequently using a word of the local language.

And the word is ....

Umshlanga!