Please Talkers: translate the following paragraph into the “sh-g” that you used in your younger days.
As me and my friends waited for the Last bus at the local bus stop, a land rover police pick up truck approached from nowhere and we were all arrested and bundled into the vehicle . When we got to the police station,we were all charged with being drunk and disorderly and were remanded until our relatives would pay for our bail the following day.
My sheng translation from the Early 90s…
"Mimi na ma-beste wa mine tuliwaga rotaji tuna-time mat yetu.
Kidogo mariamu kaa kobole zikakamu tukachotwa mtisa mpaka neti.
Masanse walidai ati tuliwaga ma-otogo ikabaki tutoe fine ama tujipate ki-beach kotiko mangware.
Ikabaki tume-chota hiyo soo kobole!..
Please do a similar translation from your Sheng Era.
I have been mbocoini actually. Spent first two and a half weeks of August in Kenya and what a beautiful time I had. I never stopped thinking about you and would remember you every time I saw a “momo” on the streets of Nairobi.
How have you been?
Mimi na wanangu tukisubiri gari pale steji ghafla gari la mwere likaja na tukatiwa mbaroni,kufika kituoni tukaandikiwa mashataka ya ulevi na utovu wa nidhamu tukaamrishwa tutoe faini lau sivyo tujipate kortini…well that’s our Sheng
