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‘Yoh! You’re in the OED’ – South Africa makes its linguistic mark

'Yoh! You're in the OED'

Yoh! I’m so gatvol of this tjoekie and need a zol to handle these moggy people.

No, these are not grammatical errors – this is a sentence comprising South African words included in the Oxford English Dictionary’s (OED) latest update.

It means: Wow, I’m so annoyed by this prison and need to smoke some marijuana to handle these irrational people.

These popular words are among a slew of “untranslatable words”, defined by the OED as “words and phrases in one language that cannot be translated into another”, featured in the latest lexicon.

Other “loan words” included in the update come from the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Ireland.

The list of South African words come from several of the country’s 12 official languages and they are:

A list of all words added from across the world can be found on the OED website.

Taken From BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2er7qwz31o

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