Tumi Morake's "expensive English" decoded

Tumi Morake is not here for Bonang's fans

Comedienne, Tumi Morake has hilariously responded to Queen B*’s hoity refusal to appear on her SABC 3 show, WTF Tumi, citing advice from her fans not to do so.

Lol. My supporters say I mustn’t come to your show. I’ll have to decline but thank you. 🙏🏽❤️ https://t.co/ObmAVFJko9

— Bonang B* Matheba (@bonang_m) June 6, 2018

Industry heavy-weights and fans alike have been sharing their thoughts on the matter ever since but it was this particular critique from entertainment commentator, Phil Mphela, that got Tumi’s attention. She has actually been silent ever since she responded to Bonang Matheba’s denial of the request made by the show’s producers but all those Twitter tags eventually broke through and prompted her to respond:

Hayi ke, we’ll Stan in our own way. We stand misunderstood. Slay on Queen slayer. Re lebogile 👍 https://t.co/k2RbdQJz7R

— Tumi Morake✊🏾🇿🇦 (@tumi_morake) June 6, 2018

🙄 oh wow a whole day on the same tip. 🤔. Three possibilities: 1 u don’t have a life 2 you have major delusions about who cares either way, 3 waaaaay too much data in these tricky economic times 🤣 pic.twitter.com/Qs70qEWhIj

— Tumi Morake✊🏾🇿🇦 (@tumi_morake) June 6, 2018

It is when you are tagged in conversations you don’t give a flying hoot about that the timeline gets annoying 🙄 How does Twitter not let us remove tags though. Or at least add a “don’t care” button. Mute ain’t doing enough

— Tumi Morake✊🏾🇿🇦 (@tumi_morake) June 7, 2018

Tumi Morake is not here for Bonang's fans — twitter.com

Tumi’s hilarious and bombastic response has gone over the heads of some:

The English is Englishing me pic.twitter.com/8Q1DRkF5gc

— MaftownGuru. (@Sebastian_McRam) June 7, 2018

Sekgowa saga @tumi_morake ekare motho atswa Private school. And mo’girl otswa Mmabatho High.But anyways I see what you did there.

— Kagiso Oregolele Christopher (@Oregolele_C) June 7, 2018

This English got me confused I’m used to Benglish so i will just have to find dictionary to hear what is being said here. pic.twitter.com/Nkbix2a2yQ

— Inuka perfume (@pnnomzaza78) June 7, 2018

Jesus were did i put my dictionary ous Tumi

— Dikeledi Nzeleni (@DikelediNzeleni) June 7, 2018

Sekgowa se se kana aus Tumi. Le tlhogo e opa nyana.

— Light Black (@BigBrotha412) June 7, 2018

@PhilMphela i’m still trying to google what Tumi said yoo😮😮English!!

— Mankoe💞 (@lonnie_zidlaphi) June 7, 2018

🤣😂🙂 ke sekgowa girl.

— Phil Mphela (@PhilMphela) June 7, 2018

So what DID Tumi say?

“Don’t argue with her stans, it’s a futile excercise” = there is no point in arguing with Bonang’s fans
“…that ends in needless denigration…” = you will be unnecessarily criticized
“…and renders your intellect superfluous…” = you will end up looking stupid
“Mind you they grossly hyperbolize the few times she’s been mentioned on the show” = they are exaggerating. *We [at WTF Tumi] have never maliciously mentioned Queen B in the few times we’ve mentioned her on the show.

At the end of the day however, 👇🏾