My Swahili teacher (in Tanzania) this week: I read some articles... A journalist in the war plans meeting? Why are students being arrested? Canada saying they aren't your friends anymore? Trump wants Greenland? South African Amb sent home? I was so surprised. There are many issues in America. - ThreadSky

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hollybfletcher.bsky.social • 16 days ago

My Swahili teacher (in Tanzania) this week: I read some articles...
A journalist in the war plans meeting?
Why are students being arrested?
Canada saying they aren't your friends anymore?
Trump wants Greenland?
South African Amb sent home?
I was so surprised. There are many issues in America.

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hollybfletcher.bsky.social•16 days ago

The good news is I am really brushing up on all my authoritarianism-related vocabulary. And I get to use my favorite word in most sentences
SHAGHALABAGHALA officially means chaotic, messy, unkempt but I use it as clusterF and it works well.

mashstars.bsky.social•16 days ago

Oh that is a fun word. I don't know how I can bring it into my lexicon, but I'm finding a way.

Side note, only way I could find how to pronounce it was this banger of a song.

hollybfletcher.bsky.social•16 days ago

I would need to slow this down to catch more of what they are saying, but the chorus is "Everything is a CF"

mashstars.bsky.social•16 days ago

I don't know any Swahili...Is the rest of the song bad news bears?

hollybfletcher.bsky.social•16 days ago

It sounds like a lament of the state of things, yes. but again, I'd need to slow it wayyy down...