{"id":18586,"date":"2023-05-25T07:01:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18586"},"modified":"2023-05-25T07:01:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:01:14","slug":"fokol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2023\/05\/25\/fokol\/","title":{"rendered":"fokol"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I have learned a new word!\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ricoschacherl\/status\/1661597677644050432\">Rico Schacherl\u2019s cartoon<\/a> in the Daily Maverick refers to a news story\u2014basically, the US has accused South Africa of supplying Russia with military supplies for its war in Ukraine, which South Africa denies.\r\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SA is definitely the world's largest producer of \u201cfokol\u201d...<\/p>@ricoschacherl<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ricoschacherl\/status\/1661597677644050432\">May 3, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Defense Minister Thandi Modise said \u201cWe put fokol, nothing, onto that ship.\u201d\r\n<p>So, what is \u201cfokol\u201d?\r\n<p>I believe that in British English, one would have said they put fuck-all on the ship. Wiktionary spells it <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/fokkol#Afrikaans\">fukkol<\/a>, while commenters on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2023-05-23-we-put-fokol-on-lady-r-thandi-modise-tells-mps\/\">an article in the <cite>Business Day<\/cite><\/a> spell it \u201cvokol\u201d.\r\n<p>The parliament was considering with the language was parliamentary. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/capetimes\/news\/fokol-on-russian-ship-minister-modise-sticks-to-her-guns-on-lady-r-saga-a1d3fb17-a400-4e19-b3be-f8bc0c9bfa04\">\u201cIn my home town it means nothing,\u201d<\/a>, the minister said.\r\n<p>I don\u2019t know under what circumstances I could use this new word, but I learned a new word.\r\n<p>Thanks,<br>-Ed.\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned a new word! But can I use it in a sentence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-profanity","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18587,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions\/18587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}