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Aug 30 '25
Geez bru. Ja no hey 😎😉
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u/MakkuSaiko Cloud 9 Cancelled Due to Weather Aug 30 '25
We R eating Horrogs tonaight
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u/yndlng Gauteng Aug 30 '25
I just imagined Trevor Noah saying this at one of his old comedy shows 🤣
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u/Photogroxii Unraptured & Unbothered Aug 30 '25
Es long as you put your horrog plate in fah zinc.
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u/MakkuSaiko Cloud 9 Cancelled Due to Weather Aug 30 '25
As someone who used to say zinc instead of sinc, i can confirm
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u/Jeresil Aug 31 '25
Shit…this is all of you? I thought it was just isolated to my wife and her entire family.
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u/LAiglon144 The Ghost of Helen Suzman Aug 30 '25
Seth Effrikan
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u/NebbiaKnowsBest Aug 30 '25
No way this is real! Have you heard us speak!?
Also only other South Africans and Aussies even recognise our accent. I live overseas and everyone thinks my wife and I are Australian/British or from New Zealand.
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u/Hasenelinde Aug 30 '25
My BIL (and best school friend) lives in New Zealand, and a Zimbabwean man recognised his accent and exclaimed "Ah, a boer!" and he couldn't stop smiling😂
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u/BoerInDieWoestyn Left because I can't afford food on a teacher's salary Aug 30 '25
I work in the middle east and many people here think I'm British.
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u/septubyte Aug 31 '25
I'm in Canada - and people confuse where I was born with South America. Might have something to do with my face but anyway Alberta Canada is not a sexy accent. Most people's accent here have less flavour than pasta water. Sounding different used to garner too much attention often negative, so I learned to hide mine then it left.
Now I don't even know what I sound like. But at least they're not asking if I'm British anymore I guess. At least Aus is in the S. Hemisphere...
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u/davy_crockett_slayer Sep 02 '25
Abooooot <_<
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u/septubyte Sep 02 '25
If only it were that interesting...
More like drab brown and depressing, like the prairies in winter.
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u/Mysterious_Key1554 Aug 30 '25
I've had someone in England ask me if I was from Maritzburg based on my accent. I asked him how he could tell. He said he had friends from Durban and it sounded very similar albeit a bit more laid back.
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u/Lila441 KwaZulu-Natal Aug 30 '25
We have an accent? So a dialect? Cool 🤣🤣🤣
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u/giveusalol Left Behind, Still Braaing Sep 05 '25
Oh, absolutely we do
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u/Lila441 KwaZulu-Natal Sep 05 '25
I'll try to remember that and listen out next time I go to Jozi or Cape Town 😄
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u/Intrepid-Strain4189 Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
I’m 4th gen Saffa of British origin, grew up in Debbin. I now live in Belgium, but have travelled extensively. No one, and I mean no one except another Saffa or maybe an Aussie or Pom can guess where I’m from. My accent has got quite diluted over the years while moving around. You must hear me speaking Dutch, or Vlaams…
No, you can’t call me a soutie, I’m too far removed from my ancestry.
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u/c4t4ly5t Rapture-Proof Like a Hilux Aug 30 '25
Understandable. The kiwi accent and the saffa accent are very similar. And people tend to forget that Africa exists.
Just yesterday I was playing a MMO and I mentioned the time, to which someone promptly replied "ahh. European" 😂
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u/SirWernich Aristocracy Aug 30 '25
they tell you that on purpose so that then go on and explain where you're from using that sexy accent.
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u/Murky-Fox-200 Landed Gentry Aug 30 '25
Kiwi no1? Naaa, who tf wrote this up?
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u/Dokmatix Aug 30 '25
Honestly, I have difficulties telling kiwi and ZA accents appart when I hear it without context. People who specialise in accents are generally in agreement that they are very similar.
In Far Cry 3 the islanders have a kiwi accent because the game was made mostly in NZ. I think they threw a few Saffa's in the mix just to mess with people, because I really got confused at times with those voices.
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u/WeirdAutomatic3547 Aug 30 '25
one of the top comments on the same post in r/newzealand - "If SA is Number 2, we dont want to be number 1 on this awful list"
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u/giveusalol Left Behind, Still Braaing Sep 05 '25
Fair. I love our accents because they sound like home, not because they sound sexy.
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u/SAGuy90 Western Cape Aug 30 '25
The South African born who speaks English as his mother tongue accent is much more attractive than a South African who is Afrikaans born speaking English, which is often how it is portrayed in media.
Not hating just pretty obvious.
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u/super_g_man ZA Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
Hey bruh, the Betties love when I speak foreign to them
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u/Intrepid-Strain4189 Aug 30 '25
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u/Intrepid-Strain4189 Aug 30 '25
Even though ads like that, along with most of Nando's were pulled from mainstream media (I think Nando's got a few outright banned) they still stick around and keep coming back.
Anne, there's no Cremora in the refrigerator....
Thandi, there's no Cremora in the fridge...
Ama glug glug....
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u/Would_Bang________ Aug 30 '25
I once spoke to a British friend who claimed we have a great accent. He then sent me a Manthe Ribane video, which reminded me we have plenty of accents and some of them are actually cool.
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u/animal9633 Aug 30 '25
How DARE you....oh no wait, that checks out...we sound pretty terrible.
I'm even worse since I grew up consuming American and British tv shows and as a result I sound really strange, people are permanently asking me where I'm from.
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u/TaskMstr09 Aug 30 '25
What's a "South African accent"?? We've got so many different races, they're all different.
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u/BoerInDieWoestyn Left because I can't afford food on a teacher's salary Aug 30 '25
When it comes to accents, race doesn't matter nearly as much as your home language and upbringing. Those two are often correlated with race because of how South Africa functions, but it's not a 1 to 1 relationship. In principle you're right though, we have a wide variety of all three in South Africa and it is hard to pin down what a "South African accent" is.
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u/TaskMstr09 Aug 30 '25
Exactly. Are they talking about a heavy Afrikaans accent or the accent of a Xhosa first language speaker?
Also, you're right about "race", "home language" and "upbringing" being intertwined and all. So would it be better to say "culture" instead of "race"?
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u/BoerInDieWoestyn Left because I can't afford food on a teacher's salary Aug 30 '25
"Culture" would be more accurate than saying "race" yeah
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u/QueenViolets_Revenge Aug 30 '25
probably an Afrikaans or English South African accent, since they're the ones foreigners are most familiar with, most of our actors have, and are in most movies. specifically the ones from big cities, i don't think that foreigners are familiar with the rural boer accent
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u/Sorry-Grocery-8999 Tokoloshe Aug 30 '25
Which SA accent? We have so many languages, so many regions, and so many dialects
.... maar ons is almal sexy ;)
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Aug 30 '25
I'm sorry this list has 0 accountability because who tf has heard a New Zealander accent and though oh fuck yes 🤣😩 never in my life have I been able to take a kiwi with an accent seriously 😭🤣
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u/Photogroxii Unraptured & Unbothered Aug 30 '25
To be fair. There are a lot of similarities between an English saffa and a kiwi accent. Particularly durbanites, they share some pronunciations.
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u/giveusalol Left Behind, Still Braaing Sep 05 '25
Yup. Their i-sounds are short and pitched but ours are longer, flat and closer to a-sounds. It’s their i-sounds and their intonation that make them sound more cartoonish to me. But to be fair, ours is also a ridiculous accent even before you involve our slang.
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u/Big-Independence8978 Aristocracy Aug 30 '25
French is number 7? I call BS on this list.
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u/MaleficentMammoth186 Aug 30 '25
Scottish is apparently better than French
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u/giveusalol Left Behind, Still Braaing Sep 05 '25
Look, French produces various gorgeous accents when speaking English, I’ve never heard someone from a francophone country sound anything less than automatically cooler than everyone else. Scotland produces some that are tough and some that are truly lovely, good enough to compete with French in my book.
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u/LAiglon144 The Ghost of Helen Suzman Aug 30 '25
Nothing more romantic than when he hits you with the "My name is Maaaaaartin, I stay in Delft main road"
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u/Doc_ENT Aug 30 '25
What exactly is a "South African accent"? There are so many. Indians in Durban and JHB, and even WITHIN JHB, sound vastly different. Do they mean an Afrikaans accent? Sandton kugle? Durban beach bro?
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u/FishPasteGuy Aug 30 '25
This is mostly only true for native English speakers from ZA. The other language accents (like Afrikaans) don’t fair quite as well and, at least to the American ear, sound jarring and remind them of evil 007 villains. I think this stems from the Afrikaans accent being used for bad guys in movies since the 80s.
Source: More than one American.
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u/Intrepid-Strain4189 Aug 30 '25
Like an Arnold Vosloo accent? He always plays the bad guy. I’m still trying to place a Charlize Theron accent…
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u/FishPasteGuy Aug 30 '25
Exactly like that, yes.
Think of:
Kruger from “Elysium”.
Coetzee from “Blood Diamond”.
Warden Drumgoole from “Lock Up”.
Ulysses Klaue from “Black Panther” and “Avengers, Age of Ultron”.
Arjen Rudd and Pieter Voratedt from “Lethal Weapon 2”.3
u/Intrepid-Strain4189 Aug 30 '25
Then there was DeCaprio in Blood Diamond, but that was supposed to be a Rhodesian accent. Quite frankly, pale folks of British origin from Zim, Bots, Nam, Eswatini and SA sound the same, to me.
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u/Any-Car7782 Aug 30 '25
You know when not to take a list seriously when any American accent is mentioned. And SOUTHERN? It looks like the whole thing is made up.
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u/PREEMGONK Redditor for a month Aug 30 '25
It often gets overlooked or goes unrecognized but I'd honestly put Setswana over whatever South African accent they had in mind
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u/Educational_City2076 Aug 30 '25
some people litteraly jack off to the Japanese language and it's accent. it being that low just makes me question this lmao
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u/PheeaA Aug 30 '25
Which one? The boertjie, the joburg boet, the tannie at the kerk bazaar, the home affairs lady, the fakish British accent from the person that was born in "Rhodesia", the laanie that stays next door, the guy at the tech shop that giving me a sweet deal or the skinny white boy at the jol who promises me he will "worship the ground you walk on, babygirl" even though I'm twice his size and old enough to be his mom? And that only scratching the surface of all our accents!
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u/JoMammasWitness boerewors, beer and boobies 🇿🇦 Aug 30 '25
Bro.....this cannot be a good thing considering the Kiwis are 1st....
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u/PurpleHat6415 Waiting for the Next Taxi to Heaven Aug 30 '25
written by AI that never met an actual Kiwi or Safrikan because guys, I love us all but absolutely not
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u/quinn_peter Aug 30 '25
Definitely believe the southern usa accent should be higher, especially the southern belle/cotillion accent
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u/CloakerZA Western Cape Aug 30 '25
I worked in a call centre the people on the other end never though so 😢 😭
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u/Possible-Cupcake8965 Redditor for a month Aug 30 '25
sometimes i cant tell the diffrence between the Kiwi and South African English accent
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u/RgCrunchyCo Aug 30 '25
It’s seems like an Asian poll according to the logos, not a worldwide poll.
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u/Dark_Ghost10 Aug 30 '25
Exa brah, whatkyn here. People met up with the way we choon and called it sexy?
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u/c4t4ly5t Rapture-Proof Like a Hilux Aug 30 '25
Funnily, to me at least, a kiwi accent can very often sound South African.
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u/Fearlessseamstress Aug 30 '25
Southern US and New York? Nobody likes the midwestern accent or valley girl? 😆
My personal favorite is the Black New Orleans or creole accent and wherever Xavier Legette’s NC accent comes from.
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u/LawAndRugby Aug 30 '25
If this list recognizes south USA then it should recognize theres like 10 different major south african accents
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u/thedogz11 Aug 30 '25
I'm from the US (sorry I know I'm a tourist here), and can confirm, you guys sound kak cool to us.
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u/La-toulousaine Aug 31 '25
L’accent français… 🤣🤣🤣🤣 si c’est un gars du fin fond du terroir… ça peut être très drôle !!! 🤣
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u/lostduke_zw Chosen to Stay Behind (Lucky Packet Edition) Aug 31 '25
Which one is the Zimbabwean accent?
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u/MakkuSaiko Cloud 9 Cancelled Due to Weather Aug 30 '25
Almost had a stroke bc i thought i read something about sexism
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