[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk goes international :-)

[Mark Elkins]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 10:02, Stephen Davies wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Matthias Cramer wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:43:38 +0200
> > Altus Snyman <altus at stormcorp.co.za> wrote:
> > 
> > > So what do I have to do to add South-Africa to this list?
> > > 
> > 
> > Curious Question: What is different about English and South African English? Or do you mean Africaans?
> 
> Jislaaik, man, I skim you've never heard someone tuning you with lank
> Sarfeffrican slang!
> 
> More seriously, South Africa has 11 (is it) official languages.  Main
> ones are English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho.

As far as I can remember - I have never come across an auto-attendant
system or voice-mail system in South Africa that has spoken anything
except English. I have come across private answering machines where
Afrikaaners had left announcements in Afrikaans - but thats about it.

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