Documents - New South African Language


The New South African government have come to realise that the current status of having 11 official languages in the New South Africa is impractical.

A new language was thus introduced.

This is the English as it is now spoken on television and radio.

The recently published New Suth Effrican Deekshunry defines these new weds. Here are some extracts and examples of their usage in the official New Suth Effrican Lungwich:

Badyou sleep on it in the badroom
Bedsmossies, doves, sea-gulls etc
Begcontainer, as in shopping beg, hend-beg, tog-beg
Bento set alight
Chealdrenour future is in their hands
Chetzwhere worshippers go on Sundays
Cudsyou can play poker or rummy with them
Cuta small donkey-drawn vehicle
Debbencity in KwaZulu Natal
Deekshunrywhere you find weds
Dettyopposite of clean
Drivaholds the steering wheel of a teksi
Duckvery duck at night when the lights are all off
Ebbenyou get ebben erriors and rural erriors
Effricanfrom the continent of Africa Erriors - districts, e.g. ebben erriors
Ewwayseg. SAA, Comair, Lufthansa etc
Femscompanies, e.g., Anglo-American
Festthe one before second and third
Fokused with nifes
Fok assfocus
Fumyou can fum with ship or kettle
Fummahe owns the fum
Guddinwhere you grow kebbijees
Geaveyou MUST geave, I WILL take
Geta hinged device in a fence
Hairas opposed to heem
Heppistate of elatement, e.g. I'm so heppi - I just voted
Hissmasculine form of hairs
Hubbawhere sheeps dock
Jemslittle bugs that give you the flu
Kahwhat you drive around in
Kebbijeesvegetable
Keptownsome think parliament doesn't belong there
Kettegryin a system of classification
Kipperone who kips, as in goal kipper
Kleenixwhere nesses wek
Kotwhere the judges sit
Lento acquire knowledge
Leedaas in Arwa Leeda, Mbeki the president
Lungwichweds what are spokkin
Nessesthey wek in kleenix and hospitals
Pee pullpowa to da pee pull
Peppaone way to get the news
Pessonone of pee pull
Peessymbolised by white dove
Pees-Toxbetween IRA and Tony Blair
Reevae.g. Limpopo, Vaal, Orange
Regimeanything to describe pre-1994
Ree kwestreplaced by dee mands
Sheepbig boat
Shexhouses in squatter camps
Shipprovider of wool
Shuck-attakif the shuck-net is brokkin
Shuck-netsat Debben, for safety of sweemas
Spitchwhat politicians make at a relly
Sweemascompete in a sweeming pul
Teksikah for hire - sometimes parrot teksi
Thestice cold Coke will relieve it on a hot day
Tipic allycharacteristically
Toxnegotiations
Ummymilitary force
Wee menladies
We pona gun
Wean-dowwith glus for throwing bricks through
Weanerthe one with the most votes
Wedswhat the dictionary is made up of
Wekkasdo the wek
Weldthe whole eth
Wemssmall crawly creatures

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