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3.1 HackedBy Peter SnydersYour biggest asset against a hacker is that you can switch them out. There is another asset but let us leave that for later.Once they are on your computer you are not going to have an easy life. This starts happening when you see only a black screen. The beautiful Google pictures are all gone. When a picture does appear, it is a distorted picture of the top of a woman. You cannot make out her face and features, because they are all distorted. This is the sign for you that they are busy going through your data. Use your biggest asset: switch off your computer.Soon you will discover that the distorted picture is there for always. They are not always on your case. They just have a system to get onto your computer as soon as they see that you are active on it. I think that your computer would light up for them to know that you are busy. Yes, they become blatant. Often you will see a big black square over your desktop icons. It means that the hacker is working in the background. Switch off!You will also know that they are working in the background when you cannot open your files. When Microsoft tells you that something went wrong and suggests that you go to Control Panel and select Programs and Features and do a change, your system would be restored and you would be able to open your files, but how much of your writing have they stolen in the meantime? Switching off is a better way for you to use.I have been advised by my son-in-law that every computer has a unique IP number. What he also told me is that the hacker can only get onto your computer via the internet or your Gmail account. At the back of your computer, you will see the biggest hole to insert a connection or a flash drive. In this socket the internet connection is made. So, to keep them out, unplug your network plug. After you have done this, check to see if you have access to your Gmail account. You should not be able to access your Google account. Neither can they.Do not open a cell or email message that you do not know. Be especially careful of messages that promise you much money that you can easily obtain. As soon as you open that cellphone message or email, they are in your computer or cellphone. They are not going to give you peace until they have all your loose money and things that they can easily sell for money.After they have been on your computer for a while, they become arrogant and displace your beautiful Google pictures with the out of focus picture of a women I referred to.They can only hack the IP number of one of your PC’s. Every PC has a different IP Number. So, if you have two PC’s and one got hacked, the other one would be safe if you were vigilant. You can get a cheap secondhand computer at one of those places who give money for sellable things. Use this PC for your files. The hacked PC is used only for Gmail. If, after some time, the hackers see that there is no more to hack, they will remove their ugly picture. But, since they know your IP Number, they can anytime check you out again. So, pull out the network plug of the PC that you do your everyday work on.If you have lots of files and folders on a 4TB external hard drive, even though there is nothing of value to them on it, the hacker will spend so much time having to go through every file and getting nothing, their tyrant boss would beat them up. If you leave your computer for a while, pull out the plug of your external hard drive. They will see nothing, that is if you do not have a second PC.They get a kick out of hacking into people’s private lives. So, you can throw this back them by writing a sympathetic letter to the hacker. They are not going to respond, but you have beaten them psychologically. Finally, my sister put me in contact with someone who could rid me of the hacker. It turned out that he used a Bitdefender together with the Bitdefender VPN. When you are hacked, Bitdefender VPN will advise you and give you the opportunity to get rid of the hacker. If you tell VPN to block the hackers, they will do so and advise you that they have done so.It turns out that you can get this package for R467.00 per annum together with TEN PCs on which you can use the same project. So, if you and nine others can come together and each one gives R50.00 they can have a peaceable life. You will be given all the options to protect you, but you may have to upgrade to hide your IP Number and have other advantages.This is where these hacking experiences of mine come to an end, but you can communicate with other users of our blog and share your unique experiences.

3.1 Hacked

<h3>Frequency in Bybel Vertalers</h3>Compiled by Peter SnydersNommers en Name van Bybelvertalers&nbsp;1. &nbsp; &nbsp; Kyle Deon Manuel2. &nbsp; &nbsp; Denver Breda3. &nbsp; &nbsp; Joce Engelbrecht4. &nbsp; &nbsp; Moynene Jonas5. &nbsp; &nbsp; Christo Meyer6. &nbsp; &nbsp; Chanell Miller7. &nbsp; &nbsp; Chris van Wyk8. &nbsp; &nbsp; Ivor Swartz9. &nbsp; &nbsp; Jasmine Lewis10. Caela Nutt11. Ilne Fourie12. Rowena Koopman/Rowena Bestenbier13. Lolèta Dalton14. Kelly Adonis15. Renier Stander16. Hermien Bothma &nbsp;(twie versions)17. Denzil Davids18. Christa Faasen19. Hendry Kortje20. Hein KleinbooiLitnet kept a Bible Translation into Kaaps of the first eight verses of Genocide.The twenty translators above sent their translations. From the names, it appears as if men and women were about fifty-fifty. Rowena Koopman appeared to get married, which is why her new name, Rowena Bestenbier is also given. Of the group, she was the most enthusiastic.We tried to contact all of them, but could only reach a few. We used the translations of the contact information that we could get with their permission. Please remember that there is no copyright on words, which is why we used the words of those whom we could not contact.Even though the speech is the same, the writer uses the way s/he articulates the words. So, there will be differences. When all participants use the same text, we have the ideal opportunity to examine frequency. We also apply the rules the translators use. Some rules are weak when compared to others.The full Kaaps — Dutch Frequency Table is too large to display directly in this blog post. Instead, it is available as a PDF on our Resources page. Click&nbsp; here&nbsp; - <a data-mce-href="https://kaapsculture.org/new-page-2-2-2-2-2" href="https://kaapsculture.org/new-page-2-2-2-2-2">"Kaaps — Dutch Frequency Table"﻿</a> to be redirected there, then select "Frequency in Bybel Vertalers" to view and download the document. Keep it close — you'll need it for the dictionary choices.<figure id="figure-rfs6n2l5vqmr27opb3" class=""><img id="rfs6n2l5vqmr27opb3" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/2fMi0PeousHo8gKlOUyzVos5kBAqp03p8FamtObFBKVOjN85KYqk66bnaQHFkYM8.png" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 " style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: 0% undefined%;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="16:9" data-caption="" data-positionx="0%" data-positiony="undefined%" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/2fMi0PeousHo8gKlOUyzVos5kBAqp03p8FamtObFBKVOjN85KYqk66bnaQHFkYM8.png" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: 0% undefined%;"></figure>

Frequency in Bybel Vertalers

<h3>J in Kora</h3>The table below shows how two spellings can mean the same thing. This can happen with a change of vowel or consonant. The je that is seen on its own is used to show how the Dutch diminutive marker is changed to the Kora diminutive, djie or tjie. The e in Kora is always phonologically ê. The Dutch use a schwa in je, which Kora changes to the phonological ê that is e in Kora.Please note that the j in aitjos (~ajos) is how two linguists hear the sound. The alternative ajos, which is not recognised in Kora, is not in bold like aitjos. With the Kora for ten, Meinhof recognises that d has an alternative dj and tj. These are recognised by Kora as the diacritical signs ʤ (alt plus 0676) and ʧ (alt plus 679) written as dj and tj.The approximant j again plays a role in tense and gender markers. This is the accepted norm for a liaison that is not recognised as a consonant in Kora. The gender marker 1mp means first person plural.Please hold onto this table and print it out if you can. It will make you understand Kora more easily. You do not have to speak the language, just understand its rules. Click on the link <a data-mce-href="https://kaapsculture.org/new-page-2-2-2-2-2" href="https://kaapsculture.org/new-page-2-2-2-2-2" title="Kora" data-mce-selected="inline-boundary">" Kora"</a> to access a pdf of all the variants of Kora.<figure id="figure-y5lf3g0accmqzd2k55" class=""><img id="y5lf3g0accmqzd2k55" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/dJez930gemLxtKakYkJ6tTDP8gWvbJrR7m3LEV2SjD6F3mwfK7RO0qTkkmPiRTK0.png" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 " style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: center center;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="16:9" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/dJez930gemLxtKakYkJ6tTDP8gWvbJrR7m3LEV2SjD6F3mwfK7RO0qTkkmPiRTK0.png" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: center center;"></figure>

Kora Variants

2.4 Bushmen Blog&nbsp;By Peter Snyders © 28th May 2024G &nbsp;The BushmenThe Bushmen or San were far from being uncivilised. They had keen perception, including a sense of smell. They could gather food from nature and had the wisdom to leave a few to grow and feed them on another day. They did not see any need to farm because they were usually in small clans and their habitats did not allow their food to grow throughout the year.They shared the same unique click-type languages as the Khoikhoi because they are historically from the same group that had separated at least twenty thousand.(20,000) years before they came to South Africa. The Khoi were one group of Hunter-gatherers. Their contact with the Bantu tribes caused them to begin pastoral farming by several of them. The Bushmen / San who ventured south were able to expand with purposeful techniques, their hunter-gatherer system of obtaining natural food.They could remain a long time without food and could then devour immense quantities of meat without any ill effects. They cared less for the future and were happy if the wants of the moment were supplied.&nbsp;George Theal: History of Ethnography p.10The Bushmen piled up stone walls in the shape of the sides of a triangle, for the purpose of capturing game. There was a narrow open space at the apex. Just beyond this was a deep pit carefully covered over, into which the animals that were driven forward fell without chance of escape. The construction of these walls required much labour, but the hunters were not deficient in energy.They made pits for entrapping the elephant and the hippopotamus near rivers. &nbsp;The Bushmen who lived in the vicinity of streams containing fish used long baskets shaped like scoop nets made of reeds to capture the smaller kinds and speared the huge barbels and yellow fish with harpoons of bone.&nbsp;George Theal: History of Ethnography p.11The Khoikhoi and San have the most mtDNA haplogroup L0 in southern Africa, within their genes. Europeans and other people also have this gene inside them. Europeans who know this should cast off racism because their roots lie in these so-called ‘savages’ or ‘wild people.’ Within their time, they were not savages but enlightened folk.Despite them being very seldom more than a band of twenty, there was an absence of incest. They practised monogamy. It is not correct to believe what George Theal, in his History of Ethnography, p.19, says that the Bushmen were immoral.The convenient Sān protogroup eventually found their way into South Africa, whence they spread out of the country, and some of them eventually made their way to the Cape region. Here, there was ample food and wild game. They could therefore make drums and musical instruments and could dance and play games in their leisure time.At the Cape, they could also live off the sea. They ate seals and whales when these spilled out of the sea. Their womenfolk, besides the many root plants, could also gather mussels, crayfish, and other smaller and larger dishes. Bushmen were so-called “Bosjesmans” by the Dutch because they did not have actual homes. They slept in the open or made a home for themselves from bushes.When there was an absence of food, or they needed to procure more protein in their diets, they would hunt whatever wildlife was available. Their keen sense of perception and smell were assets to the nimbleness and agility to hunt wild animals. They were more civilised than modern humans in that they did not claim property, they treasured the absence of violence, and were merciful, cheerful, and never lacked kindness. These chaste people did not have a chief and were blessed not to have any political situation to rule over them.At the Cape, they were joined by Khoikhoi who had either been ousted by their clan or tribe, or, like the non-eldest sons, would leave to find their own way. With the Bushmen, he or she could be free to live a life without waste. Living without waste is the second of the three treasures of Taoism. Living like birds, they practiced without knowing that this was living in the Kingdom of Heaven according to Jesus, the Christ. They lived an unselfish life, like children, without intellectualism.The negativity to the white man’s blind-sided view of the San was also associated with connotations of poverty, low status, thievery, and scavenging. When one lives within the Kingdom of God, you are never poor. Yes, you keep a low status in the eyes of people who think themselves civilised while they use other low-status people to make money for their greed and ambitions. The term scavengers is totally out of place. They were gatherers, like the birds, in the Kingdom of More than Enough.The Bushmen / San were one with nature. They had insight into nature. During the Stone Age, they were the ones who drilled stones. They had other labour and skills. They made knives of stone.&nbsp;They knew that their arrows would seldom penetrate the hides of the animals they hunted, so they fire-hardened the bones of smaller animals onto their arrows. They knew that penetrating the skin of animals would not kill him, so they used natural poison to tip the arrowheads from serpents and trees.Bushmen were artists. When they found copper – and sometimes iron – they would make ornaments for the body. They used the skins of the hunted animals to make clothing for themselves. They were not thieves. They were humble like saints and knew how to survive in times of scarcity. This led to the ingenious game-catching techniques, like making traps for big animals to fall in. They gave every unnamed thing a name, and they knew them with skill.They knew where the waterholes were. During times of drought, when there was not a waterhole for several hundred kilometres away, they knew what wild fruit and vegetables they could consume to give their bodies the water they needed. They were not thievish. They wanted to avoid contacting strangers. When aggressive contact with the outsiders of their clan came about, they knew the art of war with just poisoned arrows. When the white settlers chased away their wildlife, they helped themselves to the livestock of the Boers. This led to a quarrel, which led to the genocide of the Bushmen in South Africa.Only people like Elizabeth Thomas, for example, who have stayed with Bushmen for some time, can give a correct view of them. To befriend them is quite a task. They could make themselves invisible. Once a few Bushmen were contacted, and after a while, they found the white person to be friendly; this news would cause other Bushmen to reveal themselves to the strangers.The Bushmen were shorter and of a lighter complexion than the Khoikhoi with whom they formed the Khoisan. They only wanted to be left in peace. They did not compete in issues that they could not win. They are only frightened by other people and hope to be spared their attention. They think of all strangers as dangerous people. They call all non-Bushmen ‘animals without hooves,’ because they say, non-Bushmen are angry and dangerous like lions and hyenas. And they called themselves ‘the harmless people.”&nbsp;Elizabeth Marshall Thomas 1959: The Harmless People p.24This post ends the Bushmen saga. It will be continued under Khoisan.&nbsp;

2.4 Bushmen

2.3 Kaaps(© 4th September 2020 by Peter Snyders).&nbsp;Let us explain why the Khoikhoi says Djã instead of Jan. So right away, albeit tentatively for now, we know why Kaapsers say dj in place of j in words such as djy (you), Djan (Jan), djêm (jam), djaloers (jealous), djamme (pity, sorry) and Djiesus (Jesus).&nbsp;This is because the j sound does not occur as an independent phoneme in Kora but is only occasionally introduced between two vowels of a diphthong to facilitate transition (liaison, separation) between them. If you look at the Kora-English Dictionary, you will not find any words containing j. Please also read it up yourself under Approximants in Sounds of Kora on page 18. We will treat j then.Here are some examples of the [j] to [ʤ] (alt + 0676) from Zulfah Otto-Sallies’s: Diekie vannie Bo-Kaap pp 1-36. This rule is still applied in Modern Kaaps, the fifth phase of Kaaps.dj ~ [ʤ] in Kaaps (Both Dutch final checks 12.12.2024)<figure id="figure-rg4y2kb2mamqp4jv9e"><img id="rg4y2kb2mamqp4jv9e" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/3hC2Znqa9V5OUUcTjDENjA0ewrrY7SeEHK3kFpvmc7ZmnPWxhUXqvmRzgD1NB5vo.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 " style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: center center;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="16:9" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/3hC2Znqa9V5OUUcTjDENjA0ewrrY7SeEHK3kFpvmc7ZmnPWxhUXqvmRzgD1NB5vo.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: center center;"></figure>The words djou and djulle are not used by all Kaapsers [speakers of Kaaps]. This is because of some geographical or cultural reasons.We will be attaching the attachment titled Kora All Variants (and Alternative Spellings) on 28th June 2026 as our last post for June 2026. So, before we move on to n, let us look at disi (ten) on page 1. It says that the d has alternative spellings dj and tj. The tense marker j, because it is a semi-vowel, remote tense marker je (as in signifying the diminutive in Dutch) is substituted by tj as in Kaaps. (page 2)The nasal n sound rarely occurs in the end-position of a word in Kora.&nbsp;Please go through the Kora dictionary and see how many words you can find where a word ends with n. As in Kora, so too, Kaaps would either add some more letters after the end n or assimilate (make one) the two or three words. This assimilation also makes Kaaps different from Afrikaans and shows how the Kora rule refused to budge. Below are a few examples from Die Bybel translations of Genesis 1: 1-8. We will attach the names to the numbers in July 2026.<figure id="figure-kt5au0hw7smqp4msw9"><img id="kt5au0hw7smqp4msw9" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/1bpjRDgKbxEkE2LCP11TS8l8IMuzctcDjXq6BvEHsgExPdxij2huM8upaJfcLApF.png" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 " style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: center center;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="16:9" data-caption="" data-positionX="undefined" data-positionY="undefined" data-fullWidth="false"/></figure>When your spirit (julle’s mos spiritual scientists!) is the true speaker or writer, you will detect the wonderful things that it does. Besides the changing of the –n ending of some examples, 17 goes so far as to use an English word, while 15 not only uses an English word, but also even assimilates (joins) two words from different languages. Sixteen (16) substitutes n with t, while 6 and 16 not only do the same but assimilate (incorporate) the ie of die. 19 proves that Kaaps is a mature language by going so far as to use a completely new/different word to sidestep the problem presented to Kora and, consequently, of Kaaps.&nbsp;These tables will assist those of you who want to make a dictionary. One of the means chosen by the dictionary creator is frequency, that is, how often the spelling occurs. From the table above, we can see why the spellings of ennie (en die) and ennit (en dit) would be chosen for the dictionary.All that we have said so far are universal linguistic rules that Kora is applying to create the Pidgin-Kaaps, the first phase of the modern Kaaps spoken today.A language created without academic interference, like a Pidgin, for example, is done by the Spirit of God.Matthew 10: 19. But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.20. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.Note: We only wanted to work with the [a] in Kaaps, but we cannot use it in isolation. The rule with the only a letter is that it is short. Professor Menán du Plessis, not only dispatched of the different ways the early linguists wrote Kora, but she also turned Kora into an Independent Phonological Entity. This means that everything you see in Kora has a distinct sound. This means that all dj, a and n sounds would always be sounded in their own particular way.We have the rule that j is adapted to dj or tj as we find not only in our table but also with our diminutives. This is the way all languages work with sounds that do not belong to their lexicon, [the vocabulary of a language]. There is no th in French, so the French substitute it with z. Similarly, several languages, including German and African languages, substitute de in place of th. The phoneme [sound] j is a consonant in Dutch, but it is a semi-vowel in Kora; it is not even recognised as a vowel.The Dutch rarely pronounce the end r just like the Koranners [Kora speakers] do. So, they will tolerate each other, but when the slaves use the end r, Kora may discard their rule because the Pidgin does not include complications. This is also why there are no clicks, aspirations [audible breath that accompanies or comprises a speech sound], tonalities [the organization of all the tones and harmonies], egressives and nasals consonants in Pidgin-Kaaps. This made Pidgin Kaaps so simple, that everyone, including the Dutch and slaves, could understand the language quickly and so Kaaps became the lingua franca of the Cape Colony.Write down these rules yourself because that way you show that you understand them.

2.3 Kaaps

2.3 BushmenBy Peter SnydersWho is the “we” on page 24, Elizabeth Mareshall Thomas is writing about? On page 19, she writes: “ We crossed this desert three times, my family and I, on three expeditions, which usually numbered between ten and fourteen people and included my father, my mother, my brother, and myself, as well as several other Europeans who were linguists, zoologists, botanists, or archaeologists, sent by the universities of the Union of South Africa, England, or the United States, as well as four or five Bantu men – several interpreters, a cook, and a mechanic – who were the staff.”These are the true experiencers of the truth firsthand by scientists and people who are devoted to their profession. They do not just sit in their studies and get all their information from books, which may be biased, prejudiced, and discriminatory. The white linguist, Labov, also writes that the truth about the black language must come from their own linguists. We are not academics who write without proof.“We have visited four of the Bushman language groups, two of which we stayed with for long periods of time. In 1951, after a survey expedition to learn where Bushmen could be found, we went into the Nyae Nyae area of South-West Africa, close to the border of Bechuanaland, to look for Kung Bushmen. We found a band living near a waterhole, as it was June, the drought of the year, and we stayed with them for four months.&nbsp;“At first, only a few Bushmen were there. But as the news spread that we were friendly, more people came to visit us and receive presents of tobacco and salt, for Bushmen love to smoke but rarely have tobacco, which they get in trade. Also, most of the Bushmen had never seen a European before, none had ever seen a European woman, and they came by dozens to sit together in a cluster at a distance to observe my mother and me. By the end of our stay, we had become friendly with them, and in 1952, we visited them again.&nbsp;“We found them waiting confidently for us, living beside the track our trucks had made, as we had told them that we would come back if we were able, and this time we stayed with them for a year. In August 1955, we returned to them again, but before we did so, we spent four months in Bechuanaland. We lived one month with a group of Naron and Kõ Bushmen at a place called Okwa (the two groups were mixed because their territories happened to meet at that place), and almost two months with Gikwe Bushmen in the four-hundred-mile stretch of empty desert between Ghanzi, near the border of South-West Africa, and Molepolole, near the border of the Transvaal.”&nbsp;Elizabeth Marshall Thomas 1959: The Harmless People p.24.Let us bring in some spirituality, the highest form of Truth. The back cover begins with a very short extract from a review of the book by The New York Times: ‘... the study of a ...people which, for beauty of both style and concept, would be hard to match ...”&nbsp;The beautiful style of Marshall is simple, unpretentious, and easy for anyone who can read to relate to. She also has a beautiful concept of the Bushmen, telling everything as it is, which gives the reader access to people living in the Kingdom of Heaven rather than in the hell of savage brutes, in which the ignorant West typifies them.It is, however, the word beauty that conjures up one of the four trinities Jesus speaks about in the Gospel of the Holy Twelve and The Gospel of the Nazarenes (both freely downloadable).&nbsp;The word trinity is made of tri, meaning three, and unity, one, and therefore trinity means that the parts (three) are closely interrelated to each other. The second Trinity, Jesus says, is made up of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. What does this mean? It means that when you tell the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth, it would always be beautiful and filled with goodness. In a trinity, if you mention one, the other two would automatically be linked to it. Here, beauty is used to describe this wonderful book, which calls up the other two parts of the trinity.Okay, so let us conclude with what the Bushmen call themselves:“So, the distinction between people was caused by the great god, and the Bushmen, who want only to be left in peace, do not compete in issues which they cannot win. They are only frightened by other people and hope to be spared their attention. Kung Bushmen call all strangers zhu dole, which means ‘stranger’ but, literally, ‘dangerous person’; they call all non-Bushmen zo si, which means ‘animals without hooves,’ because, they say, non-Bushmen are angry and dangerous like lions and hyenas.”&nbsp;“But Kung Bushmen call themselves zhu twa si, the harmless people. Twa means ‘just’ or ‘only’ in the sense that you say: ‘It was just the wind’ or ‘It is only me.’Elizabeth Marshall Thomas 1959: The Harmless People p.34&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;