Re: Afrikaans "potgooi"

On Jun 16, 7:53 am, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ruud Harmsen wrote:
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:10:55 -0400: Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

On the website of South Africa's Radio Sonder Grense (Radio Without
Borders) I see "potgooi" ("gooi" = "throw" in Afrikaans) used to
translate "podcast".

Gooi(en) also means "throw" in Dutch.

I ran a Google search and found 40,200 hits for
"potgooi" but only 42 for "podgooi", so the evidence is that the
replacement of "d" by "t" in what is a curtailed form of a trademark
("iPod") is the norm in Afrikaans. Isn't this surprising?

Afrikaans, like Dutch, has Autlautverhärtung, so the spelling doesn't
change how it sounds.

I know the spelling change doesn't change the pronunciation, but that
doesn't explain the spelling change.-

Is Afrikaans the Uyghur of the Germanic languages?

(Meaning, it doesn't respect the orthography of borrowed words, but
applies surface-phonemic or even phonetic spelling to them?)
.

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