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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.
African-American Vernacular English [a] ( AAVE) [b] is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working - and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians. [4] Having its own unique grammatical, vocabulary, and accent features, AAVE is employed by middle-class Black Americans as the more ...
Engrish. Engrish text on a Japanese t-shirt as a form of decoration. Engrish is a slang term for the inaccurate, poorly translated, nonsensical or ungrammatical use of the English language by native speakers of other languages. [1] The word itself relates to Japanese speakers' tendency to struggle to pronounce the English / l / and / r ...
Sabela is a covert communication dialect of several major South African languages formed by the Numbers gang. Sabela was originally developed in the mines during the early 1900's as a means of communication between the members of the The Numbers Gang but as the gang's influence in grew in various South African prisons, the language became eminent in prison and since then, released inmates have ...
Assuming one has a good relationship with their “bad texter,” this is likely because this bad texter just hasn't mastered the art of texting to convey the proper emotion. “Text messages that ...
Oi / ɔɪ / is an interjection used in various varieties of the English language, particularly Australian English, British English, Indian English, Irish English, New Zealand English, and South African English, as well as non-English languages such as Chinese, Tagalog, Tamil, Hindi/Urdu, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese to get the attention of another person or to express surprise or disapproval.
In slang, "BSF" means "best friend." Another definition, although much less common, would be "best sister friend"—AKA a friend close enough to be a sister. As one user explains on Urban ...
Nota bene ( / ˈnoʊtə ˈbɛneɪ /, / ˈnoʊtə ˈbɛni / or / ˈnoʊtə ˈbiːni /; plural: notate bene) is the Latin phrase meaning note well. [1] In manuscripts, nota bene is abbreviated in upper-case as NB and N.B., and in lower-case as n.b. and nb; the editorial usages of nota bene and notate bene first appeared in the English style of ...