There is definitely a class element to it in some respects, I remember a posh english white guy in highschool saying that he would refuse to date an Afrikaans girl with a "ratchet accent". However the class element is more due to a cultural and city vs farm divide than some sort of income difference , as apartheid oviously massively enriched Afrikaaners. Though people from generally poorer areas, such as run down mining towns like Brakpan (was an open pit uranium mine ... yeah) tend to have harsher accents.
However South Africa has 11 official languages, which leads to all type of English accents. There are various POC accents, depending on the home language of the person (Zulu vs Xhosa vs Sepedi for example)
I’ve always been creeped out by South African online spaces.
You should be, they're unusable and creep me out as a white person. The South African reddit is the perfect example of this. Though South African twitter is alright as more people use it compared to other platforms due to twitter data bundles. Just avoid the obvious white supremacists and digital blackface accounts.
Definitely never seen slang like that.
It sounds foreign to me and I've lived nearly all my life there. Though it is a heavily exaggerated example, I have met one or two people that speak exactly like that. While I did learn to understand it, I've never gotten used to it.
There is definitely a class element to it in some respects, I remember a posh english white guy in highschool saying that he would refuse to date an Afrikaans girl with a "ratchet accent". However the class element is more due to a cultural and city vs farm divide than some sort of income difference , as apartheid oviously massively enriched Afrikaaners. Though people from generally poorer areas, such as run down mining towns like Brakpan (was an open pit uranium mine ... yeah) tend to have harsher accents.
However South Africa has 11 official languages, which leads to all type of English accents. There are various POC accents, depending on the home language of the person (Zulu vs Xhosa vs Sepedi for example)
You should be, they're unusable and creep me out as a white person. The South African reddit is the perfect example of this. Though South African twitter is alright as more people use it compared to other platforms due to twitter data bundles. Just avoid the obvious white supremacists and digital blackface accounts.
It sounds foreign to me and I've lived nearly all my life there. Though it is a heavily exaggerated example, I have met one or two people that speak exactly like that. While I did learn to understand it, I've never gotten used to it.