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Published: 2017-10-24 17:07:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 419; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 0
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Another sweet photo of one of the meerkats at Marwell Zoo - taken in August.ΒRelated content
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These little guys are endemic to the arid regions of my country (South Africa). They have some serious teeth on them and bite. They are also extremely nervous, but I would also be if I was the favourite prey of eagles. They are very cute though. Their name in my language translates directly to "more cat", so I refer to them as "less dogs" sometimes.
Great photo
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zuid-afrikaans.....(or do you say suid-afrikaans?).Β I'm dutch, so I understand your translation. Although, now that I'm living in Switzerland, it's easy to translate in to "lake-cat"....
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Yes, the latter is correct - your z's drops to s's and your 'ij's to 'y's but still the same pronunciation on the ij. I didn't even think about the lake-cat - 
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Well, the same would hold for me with suid-afrikaans. But in a written version I might be able to read it without problems. Now that I've been living in Switzerland for more than 26 years, my written dutch is not very perfect anymore. Especially the confusion between some dutch and german words....
Dutch = meer, in German = See, in english = lake, but there's also the dutch word = meer ==> english = more (german = mehr)
Dutch = zee, in German = Meer, in english = sea,Β quite logic isn't it?
but
Dutch = Noordzee, in German = Nordsee....
And now I find my own mistake: Meer-Kat(ze) from german to english should be sea-cat
I'm getting old I'm afraid....
Sorry, Zara.....
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Haha, thought you'd like this oneΒ Β
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