Why does nobody understand me?
Here are a few examples of some South African slang words and phrases - lets see if you will survive a day in South Africa!
- Eina! That boerewors was hot!
- Eisch boet! That bergie is lekker babelaas!
OK - here are some higher-grade sentences for you to try out!
- When the robot turns red I want you to jump out the car, gooi your tekkies in the boot, then jump in the back of your boet's kwaai new bakkie.
- Hey howzit boet – you wanna bring a dop and a tjop and come have a lekker braai with me and my bokkie?
- Jislaaik skat, but I’m gonna give that okie a mooi donner if he tries that one again – that bakkie padkos that you gave him with my lekker tjop in it – he just gooi‘d it to the bergie over there!
If you know what I am saying, then you need to: http://comevisitsa.com/talking-south-african
Enjoy!
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Crazy funny. I get the gist of some of it, I think. A lekker braai sounds like a refreshing adult beverage and a bergie sounds like an attractive woman. The rest sound;s like Louis Carrol''s :The Jabberwolky". ;^)
Almost.... you'd call a lekker braai a rollicking good BBQ (one where consciousness runs out before the beer does) and a bergie is chap of low repute like a hobo or vagrant - or at least looks like one.
..His first bakkie is a pick-up truck. As it's a "kwaai new bakkie' it's brand new (to him) and very very cool. (Kwaai actually means angry - so you can see how it gets to really cool?)
His second bakkie is a small container like a Tupperware lunchbox (but much cheaper - if it's a fancy plastic box it's called "ma Tupper-wear") and tjop is the Afrikaans spelling of the English word (lamb) chop.
A dop is a drink (hard tack) and babelaas is drunk or hung-over (or both.)
His lekker (nice) means ....very.
lekker babelass - VERY drunk
lekker donner - good smack (punch)
"Gooi your tekkies in the boot" = toss your sneakers in the trunk.
...The "attractive woman" is skat and bokkie. Skat is treasure and bokkie is a little buck (deer.)
All in all, reading that is like taking a stroll thru' the less savoury parts of Mitchells Plain - as one resident explained one voting time "Why do we have to go to jail to get an education?"
It's called creative licence and gets a couple of laughs......although a translation would be nice...any ideas?
I am headed there now to figure out what the heck you just said........it is fascinating.
But I just learned how to speak English a week ago, so it may take me a little while to figure this out.............and yes I was born in the United States
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Ek weet nie wat jy nou sê, selfs google verstaan daar niks van
LOL - want a translation?
Haha, I don't know what you are saying, even Google doesn't understand