From an ex college mate that I worked with in South Africa for 3 years in the early 1970's. He saw the writing on the wall and emigrated to New Zealand 10 years ago.



Only a South African will understand it all!

Boere Computer Dictionary from South Africa



Monitor


Keeping an eye on the braai



Download


Get the firewood off the bakkie



Hard drive


Trip back home without any cold beer



Keyboard


Where you hang the bakkie and bike keys



Window


What you shut when it's cold



Screen


What you shut in the mosquito season



Byte


What mosquitoes do



Bit


What mosquitoes did



Mega Byte


What mosquitoes at the dam do



Chip


A bar snack



Micro Chip


What's left in the bag after you have eaten the chips



Modem


What you did to the lawns



Dot Matrix


Oom Jan Matrix's wife (classic!)



Laptop


Where the cat sleeps



Software


Plastic knives and forks you get at KFC



Hardware


Real stainless steel knives and forks from Checkers



Mouse
Mouse Pad


What eats the grain in the shed
Where the mouse takes the grain it does not eat



Mainframe


What holds the shed up



Web


What spiders make



Web Site


The shed (or under the verandah)



Cursor


The old bloke what swears a lot



Search Engine


What you do when the bakkie won't go



Yahoo


What you say when the bakkie does go



Upgrade


A steep hill



Server


The person at the pub that brings out the lunch



Mail Server


The bloke at the pub that brings out the lunch



User


The neighbour that keeps borrowing things



Network


When you have to repair your fishing net



Internet


Complicated fish net repair method



Netscape


When fish maneuvers out of reach of net



Online


When you get the laundry hung out



Off Line


When the pegs don't hold the washing up




Floppy Drive ----- When you take your plaas wekkas (workers) to the clinic . . .

Blog - â shortened version of Braai Log

Virus - the reason your wekkas go on a floppy drive to the clinic

Anti virus - the medication the wekkas get at the clinic

Virus protection - free condoms for the wekkas at the clinic

Stiffy - what happens to the wekkas when the anti-virus doesn’t wek



2009 4/4 Sport Henrietta
1999 Indigo Blue +8
2009 4/4 Sport Green prev
1993 Con Green +8 prev