Des

Linguist & Author▫️Business Owner▫️From the river to the sea 🇵🇸

[DrMusa @DrMusaMthombeni]

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[Chicago Fire FC @ChicagoFire]

TLB!!! WHAT A PLAYER 🇿🇦 #cf97

[khanki @TboozeSA]

I hate how South Africans get easily rage baited. People from other countries have picked this up and are using us for engagement.

[Naledi🌟🇿🇦 @Naledi__Aphane]

4th consecutive World Cup semi final for Proteas women.
CONSISTENCY!! 💛💚🇿🇦🇿🇦
Thank you @ProteasWomenCSA

[Des @DesRay_B]

@purehijabey

[a girl in cricket @thandodeee]

SOUTH AFRICA PLAYS WORLD CUP SEMI FINAL CRICKET THIS WEEK 🥺😭💚💛

[ICC @ICC]

𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗛 𝗔𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛 🇿🇦

The Proteas lock in the final spot in the #T20WorldCup semi-finals 👏

[Des @DesRay_B]

Let’s go!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[Proteas Women @ProteasWomenCSA]

🚨 MATCH RESULT 🚨

A sensational finish at Lord’s as #TheProteas seal victory by 4 wickets. 🏟️🇿🇦

That’s four wins on the bounce in the chase for a semi-final spot at the #T20WorldCup. 🏆

#Unbreakable

[Ms. @AphiweMame]

I worry we're collapsing two separate debates.

One is about the legitimacy of AAVE as a linguistic system. The other is about whether AAVE is the best analogy for South African multilingualism.

You can answer "yes" to the first and still think the second deserves a more context-specific discussion.

[Des @DesRay_B]

I’d say “European” equivalents as a frame of reference would be Portuguese and Spanish.

[Zikhona Valela @valavoosh]

Arguing that isiXhosa and isiZulu might as well be dialects of each other is quite something.

[Proteas Women @ProteasWomenCSA]

M A T C H D A Y! 🔥

There’s everything to play for in our final group-stage encounter of the #T20WorldCup. 💪

#TheProteas take on Bangladesh in what promises to be another spectacle in London this morning. 🏟️

With a place in the semi-finals within reach, it’s time to seize the moment and leave everything out on the field. 🇿🇦

#Unbreakable

[ɱųʑŋąɧ (abel’s wife) 🇿🇦🇸🇿 @_muznah]

One thing I don’t get about this whole chat is that black Americans are really very exceptional in so many other ways? Their art is the global standard, their music is the global standard, their fashion is the standard.

[Des @DesRay_B]

Uruguay are going through it *deservedly*

[SuperSport Rugby @SSRugby]

The Junior Boks get the perfect start to their #JuniorWorldChampionship title defence 🇿🇦🏆

#SSRugby

[miss honey 🍯 @foyinog]

literal coconut water omg

[Para @ParacelsusII]

there's more than a few christian players i know in several sports who aren't even capable of saying this much btw

[Des @DesRay_B]

AAVE is 100% its own language; however, someone switching between English, French and Arabic in one sentence would not be considered "codeswitching".

These two phenomena are not the same.

[Uju Anya @UjuAnya]

Kev! What you’re describing is translanguaging (“codeswitching” from outside the speaker’s perspective). Black Americans also do this “weaving” beautifully in and out of African American language (AAL/AAVE) and North American English. You even did it right here on this tweet!😁😁

[Mahir 🇹🇷🇬🇧 @ScrewderiaF1]

Cape Verde qualifying for the Round of 32

[Des @DesRay_B]

Make that 7!!!

[My Kheswa 🇵🇸 @ThandoAfrika]

5 African nations on the last 32

[Irfaan Mangera 🍉🇿🇦 @IrfaanMangera]

Don't let xenophobes make you question your humanity. We are better than hate.
They do not speak for us.

[CAF @CAF_Online]

Round of 32, here comes Cape Verde. 🇨🇻

Africa marches on in the #FIFAWorldCup. ✊🌍