South African Lexicon
by subacati
A guide to understanding common South African slang etc. …
spaza
– cheap generic product sold in small community shop
dagga
– Pot, marijuana, grass, weed etc.
braai
– Similar to a barbecue but less formal
skyf
– Cigarette, home made cigarette possibly containing drugs (e.g. dagga skyf)
robot
– automatic traffic signal, traffic light
yar
– yes, I agree, derived from ja
yebo
– yes (zulu)
subacati 
At least you get alerts! 90% of mine dropped off the face of the Earth! :irked:
Yeah, the server :monkey:'s.I thing they get hungry. maybe it's all those bananas around that did it. :left: .
:no: They'd better keep their grubby paws off of my bananas! :knight:
😆 .
Hi Qlue, dropping by to say hello. Maybe you'll get the alert. 😆 Karen, keep your bananas in check. 😀
:p
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My bananas have a force field of horniness around them. :yes:
:eyes: 😆
Is there a slang for hello?
Not really. You could say hi or howzit. :up:.In Afrikaans you'd say, 'môre' or 'möre' depending partly on which region you're in. The first one is pronounced, 'mor-ra' and the second one is pronounced, 'moo-wa-ra'. The word means literally, 'morning' and is short for 'good morning'. Goodbye is, 'totsiens' and means, 'untill I see you again.' In isiZulu, the greeting is, 'sawbona, kunjane' and the reply is, 'siyaphile'. (the 'h' is silent and should not be confused with the english 'ph' that's used to represent 'Φ')
I like the moo-wa-ra one. :up: Thanks for the answer. :up:
……I just call it a traffic light. :PSorry…..I don't mean to offend, I'm having an off day and when I saw it the first thing I could think of was the traffic light LITERALLY being a robot….Like an AI or something that takes out speeders….. xDDD
:lol:.To you it probably sounds wierd to call it a 'robot', but to us it's just 'normal'. :p.
in the Arab world if u don't know slang language very well , u will not be able to communicate with other people .
Originally posted by raniakasim:
That rule is not only in the Arab world! :p
It also depends where in South Africa you live.In Cape Town we called cigarettes an "ent" or an "entjie" which is a cape-coloured slang. In North-West and here in Kwa-Zulu Natal they use "Gwai" to refer to a cigarette."Duidelik", albeit pronounced "Dydelik", we used in Cape Town to refer to "Cool". I.E "Dis DUIIIIDELIK BRA!"That brings us to "Bra" which is the same as "dude".Here in Natal they like to use the word "chom" or "chommie" instead of "bra" or "dude" – not a fan of "chom" or "chommie" myself."HOS!" = "HALLO!""Bras" = same as bra or dude"Brasse" = plural of above"China" = pal/friendThose are what I can think of at the top of my head. Again, these are predominantly cape-coloured slang that has been adopted by the white youth in the Western Cape.
Slang tends to get around though. :p.I've been meaning to un-sticky this post. I stopped adding to it a long time ago. :left:.