Bongani Hlope is a man of few words over the phone, but get him fired up over a kernel bug and you're likely to find him mixing it with the best of them.

He says [they] may embark on a translation effort soon to create an OpenOffice version for arguably South Africa's most popular "unofficial" language – the township lingo, Tsotsitaal, which is a mixture of Zulu, Sotho, Tswana, Afrikaans, English and other local languages.

The idea is to take the Zulu translation of OpenOffice created by translate.org.za and drop the register a bit for people in his area. "The Zulu they use is too strict for guys from Soweto," he says. "We saw a lot of words in Zulu, and most of us couldn't understand them, so that's why we decided: let's tone it down a bit."

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