{"id":38999,"date":"2020-10-08T09:44:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T07:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=38999"},"modified":"2020-10-08T10:06:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T08:06:05","slug":"listen-ekse-whats-vaaing-on-read-this-story-about-what-your-favourite-sa-slang-words-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/listen-ekse-whats-vaaing-on-read-this-story-about-what-your-favourite-sa-slang-words-phrases\/","title":{"rendered":"[LISTEN] Ekse, What&#8217;s Vaaing On? Read this Story About What&#8217;s Your Favourite SA Slang Words &amp; Phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39001\" style=\"width: 272px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39001\" data-attachment-id=\"39001\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/listen-ekse-whats-vaaing-on-read-this-story-about-what-your-favourite-sa-slang-words-phrases\/south-african-slang\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/South-African-Slang.jpg?fit=700%2C370&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,370\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"South African Slang\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/South-African-Slang.jpg?fit=700%2C370&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-39001 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/South-African-Slang.jpg?resize=262%2C139&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"139\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-39001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pic: Business Insider<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Faizel Patel \u2013 08\/10\/2020<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaizelPatel143\" rel=\"alternate\">Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you still use slang language? What are your favourite words or phrases that you grew up with?<\/p>\n<p>While today\u2019s children may not be familiar with the lingo of their parents from years ago and have their own &#8220;TikTok&#8221; way of chatting to their friends or even cousins, the slang language culture among the older generation has stuck and continues to be used\u00a0 even today among family, friends and even colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Radio Islam staff shared some sentiments about the beauty of diversity of languages to communicate and even express emotion.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the many words that have become synonymous with South African culture include voetsek, lightie, tymah, ekse, what\u2019s vaaing on and aweh, among others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Listen to the\u00a0 lighter side of communication and conversation using unique South African words and phrases on Sabaahul Muslim on Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What&#039;s your favourite Afrikaans or South African slang word or phrase? by Radio Islam International\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F906956533&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1080&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faizel Patel \u2013 08\/10\/2020 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143) Do you still use slang language? 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While today\u2019s children may not be familiar with the lingo of their parents from years ago and have their own &#8220;TikTok&#8221; way of chatting to their friends or even cousins, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[132,5453],"tags":[6098],"class_list":["post-38999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion-and-analysis","category-social","tag-southafrica-slang-afrikaans-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/South-African-Slang.jpg?fit=700%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-a91","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 05:36:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}