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The following slang words used in South African originated in other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations and subsequently came to South Africa. bint – a girl, from Arabic بِنْت. Usually seen as derogatory. buck – the main unit of currency: in South Africa the rand, and from the American use of the word for the dollar.
Gringo (/ ˈɡriːnɡoʊ /, Spanish: [ˈɡɾiŋɡo], Portuguese: [ˈɡɾĩɡu]) (masculine) or gringa (feminine) is a term in Spanish and Portuguese for a foreigner. In Spanish, the term usually refers to English-speaking Anglo-Americans. There are differences in meaning depending on region and country. In Latin America, it is generally used to ...
Patois (/ ˈpætwɑː /, pl. same or / ˈpætwɑːz /) [1] is speech or language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics. As such, patois can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects or vernaculars, but not commonly to jargon or slang, which are vocabulary-based forms of cant.
Hapax legomenon is a transliteration of Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον, meaning "said once". [3] The related terms dis legomenon, tris legomenon, and tetrakis legomenon respectively (/ ˈdɪs /, / ˈtrɪs /, / ˈtɛtrəkɪs /) refer to double, triple, or quadruple occurrences, but are far less commonly used. Hapax legomena are quite common ...
The term catholicism is the English form of Late Latin catholicismus, an abstract noun based on the adjective catholic. The Modern Greek equivalent καθολικισμός katholikismos is back-formed and usually refers to the Catholic Church. The terms catholic, catholicism, and catholicity are closely related to the use of the term Catholic ...
Disinformation is false information deliberately spread to deceive people. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Disinformation is an orchestrated adversarial activity in which actors employ strategic deceptions and media manipulation tactics to advance political, military, or commercial goals. [ 4 ]
Sapa (/ sɑːkpə /) is a Nigerian slang term that has gained prominence in recent years, particularly among young Nigerians. It is used to describe a state of financial incapacity or extreme poverty, often resulting from excessive spending and poor financial management. [1] It was eventually added to the Urban Dictionary in 2020. [2][3][4]
Machine translation. Machine translation (MT) is a process whereby a computer program analyzes a source text and, in principle, produces a target text without human intervention. In reality, however, machine translation typically does involve human intervention, in the form of pre-editing and post-editing. [ 97 ]