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To: RandFan

For being foreign born, Elon is certainly quite eloquent in his precise and concise native US English.


34 posted on 08/12/2024 5:18:56 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those struggling with inferiority complexes)
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To: norwaypinesavage

His native tongue IS English.

“Small correction: I am from a British/English background, not an Afrikaner background (similar to JRR Tolkien, who was also born in South Africa)”

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 3, 2024

South Africa has two “white” cultures - British emigrants and Boers (Afrikaners), who are of Dutch (and French Huguenot) extraction. The British have always spoken English, and the Boers Afrikaans, which is derived from Dutch. But in the last century even the Boers have mostly spoken English.


36 posted on 08/12/2024 7:00:16 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: norwaypinesavage

South Africans also have their own accent, like the Australians have theirs. You can hear a bit of that in Musks speech.


38 posted on 08/12/2024 7:08:01 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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