Talk:List of South African English regionalisms

message: This list is more comprehensive than the table version under South African English Vocabulary, perhaps this list should replace that table, or the two should be combined?
Also there should be some standard separation for words that are of clear Afrikaans origin.
(I agree with both of the above points, not sure who made them :). 
Just to justify my removal of "rock up" - this isn't uniquely South African, as a quick google search will show. The unselfish gene 15:02, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The main problem with the list is that it includes terms used by different groups all in one list as if all South African English speakers use these words. Many of the words are simply Afrikaans words that are only used by people from areas that regularly mix Afrikaans and English. Others are only used in township English. Some words listed are used only by very specific groups like Indians and Jews. Why put all these into one list? Kuratowski's Ghost 22:28, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article is in desparate need of a rewrite. I propose that it be restricted to what are really lexical differences in South African English not a list of every single Afrikaans word that has been thrown into an English sentence by someone, that list can perhaps be moved to a separate List of common Afrikaanisms or similar. Also all slang terms should be moved out to appropriate articles like "List of South African Slang Words" properly divided according to the groups that actually use those terms. Kuratowski's Ghost 14:24, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. This seems to be more of a list of Afrikaanism and has a stong focus on the concrete. What about including clear usage difference between South African English and other Englishes (e.g with multi-word verbs, other lexical chunks, discourse markers, word frequencies)?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.242.194.111 (talk) 09:40, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: Please don't add every arbitrary Afrikaans word you can think of. Yes in some parts of SA people mix English and Afrikaans, this does not mean that arbitrary Afrikaans words and Afrikaans derived slang specfic to certain groups should be listed as if they are normally used by people in SA who speak English as a first language. Similarly some people mix in Zulu with English, don't add arbitary Zulu terms. Words like bakkie from Afrikaans and indaba from Zulu are ok because they have become standard, but saying things like babbalas for hangover or shongolo for millipede is not typical for a first language English speaker.
Don't add slang words that are specfic to certain areas or groups as if these words are normally used by all English speakers in SA, they certainly aren't.
I will start a separate article on List of South African slang words with subdivisions for specific groups where people can add stuff to their heart's content. Kuratowski's Ghost 00:07, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Keep this list on topic

message: Who are these "Bantu" refered to under "coloured", exactly? Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 09:21, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Bantu"? 

message: British English, specifically the English used in the South of England, is the standard for the language. This article seems to imply that American usage is the standard, which is incorrect. There are a number of items here which this list claims are unique to South African and British English—since they're part of British English, they really don't belong in a list of dialectal terms, do they? Please clean this up.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.247.244.175 (talk) 17:05, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Neither British nor American English is the standard for the language. There are many different standards (e.g Standard South African English). Which authoritative sources treat British English as the global standard? Are they in the majority? If a standard has to be applied (which it doesn't), English as lingua-franca (ELF) and American English are clearly the dominant varieties for non-native and native speakers. This is also true for pronunciation: Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA) are no more valid or correct than other standards. An encyclopaedic article should seek to be descriptive not prescriptive, and certainly shouldn't be used to propagate people's petty prejudices.
Agree - all the the entires that being 'as in the UK' or 'as in Britain' should be removed, as they're abviously not South African English regionalisms - they're just English.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.73.121.7 (talk) 16:29, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  British English is the standard for the language 

message: Should we not format this list in a way similar to List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom as per WP:GLOSSARIES? Knyzna1 (talk) 13:26, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formatting 

message: Surprised to see this listed as specifically South African English for "nap", since "kip" is common British slang for "sleep", often for a short time - "I'll just have a kip".91.17.168.116 (talk) 18:02, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "kip" 

message: Short endearment meaning "Older sister" and not derogatory in my experience PennyFlowersFairy (talk) 04:17, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ousie