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Crown Camphor Cream in Ndebele language storm
21 Feb 2017 at 10:30hrs | Views
Bulawayo residents have expressed concern over continued distortions of the Ndebele language by corporates, saying it was a violation of the people's identity and language. Surprisingly the shona translation is perfect.
The residents expressed displeasure at the trend of misspelt isiNdebele words with the latest typographic error coming from a Harare based healthcare company, Crown Health Care which produces Camphor cream.
On its camphor cream containers, the company wrote 'Ithobisa ijwabu iligcine libutshelezi njalo libuthakatha. Iyanceda iminkenke. Ayitatwa ngumoya ilanga lonke. Ile glycerine enenge.
The words that have raise the ire of Ndebele speakers are libuthakatha instead of libuthakathaka, libuthakatha sounds as if Crown is saying something on witchcraft. Ayitatwa has been spelt wrongly. The other point of pain for the speakers is the word 'enenge' which has no meaning in the language.
The residents expressed displeasure at the trend of misspelt isiNdebele words with the latest typographic error coming from a Harare based healthcare company, Crown Health Care which produces Camphor cream.
On its camphor cream containers, the company wrote 'Ithobisa ijwabu iligcine libutshelezi njalo libuthakatha. Iyanceda iminkenke. Ayitatwa ngumoya ilanga lonke. Ile glycerine enenge.
The words that have raise the ire of Ndebele speakers are libuthakatha instead of libuthakathaka, libuthakatha sounds as if Crown is saying something on witchcraft. Ayitatwa has been spelt wrongly. The other point of pain for the speakers is the word 'enenge' which has no meaning in the language.
Source - Byo24News
