Talk:kwerekwere
kwiri-kwiri and kwerekwere need cleanup. Andrew massyn researched them and said he would have no objection if one was deleted, but I am not clear on what that means. - TheDaveRoss 01:58, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
- kwiri-kwiri seems to be non-standard spelling. I only found one academic paper using that spelling (written by a white lefty liberal). I suggest that this is the one to go. Andrew massyn 21:21, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
So similar to the ancient Greeks,Black South Africans mainly in the metropolitan areas or townships referred to non-South African Blacks from other African countries as Kwerekwere, simply because they could not understand their various languages which all seemed to sound the same with a kwiri-kwere-kwiri onomatopoeic.
(Onomatopoeia (also spelled onomatopœia, from Greek: ονοματοποιΐα) is a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing, suggesting its source object, such as "click," "bunk", "clang," "buzz," "bang," or animal noises such as "oink", "slurp", or "meow").
The word "barbarian" comes into English from Medieval Latin barbarinus, from Latin barbaria, from Latin barbarus, from the ancient Greek word βάρβαρος (bárbaros). The word is onomatopeic, the bar-bar representing the impression of random hubbub produced by hearing a spoken language that one cannot understand, similar to blah blah, babble or rhubarb in modern English.
From University of Limpopo.