"Olifantje in het bos
Laat je mama in de zee"
hoor ik hier net

At least Namibia is a reasonable place for alveolar click insertion

Why does this wine have a bilabial click? It's not even South African!

Why does this racist student club have an alveolar click in their name?

New level unlocked: whenever I see "languages" spelled correctly my first thought is that it is a typo.

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I have now progressed to misspelling "likelihood" as "likelihoofd"

Yes this is a very important point that we seem reluctant to admit. Language shift is often paired with all sorts of economic progress that people are eager to embrace. In Africa language shift is also often not perceived as traumatic by those involved.

I have now progressed to "lanugages"

This one is more subtle: apartheid-era grammars of South African languages always have a diachronic phonology chapter. This seems like a harmless side-quest but is probably related to the apartheid goal of classifying the Bantu-speaking population into separate, linguistically based groups.

1970's South African linguistics: Mr Volschenk, Mr ǁowaseb and Mr Satyo are all mentioned, but only Mr Volschenk is praised for his kindness and excellence

Why is it always "my collaborators don't speak English" and never "I don't speak isiZulu"?
(from Corrigan et al. 2011, "Ethnobotanical plant uses in the KwaNibela Peninsula, St Lucia, South Africa", South African Journal of Botany 77: 346-359)