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Tagalog profanity can refer to a wide range of offensive, blasphemous, and taboo words or expressions in the Tagalog language of the Philippines.
Philippine English vocabulary. As a historical colony of the United States, the Philippine English lexicon shares most of its vocabulary from American English, but also has loanwords from native languages and Spanish, as well as some usages, coinages, and slang peculiar to the Philippines.
Katakana. ヌンチャク. The nunchaku ( / nʌnˈtʃækuː /) ( Japanese: ヌンチャク, sometimes "dual-section stick", "nunchuks" [1] ( / ˈnʌntʃʌks / ), "nunchucks", [2] "chainsticks", [3] or "chuka sticks" [4] in English), ( Chinese 双节棍, Shuāngjiégùn) is a traditional East-Asian martial arts weapon consisting of two sticks ...
The word Jejemon is a portmanteau of the Japanese animated series Pokémon and jeje as an expression of laughter. Such short-handed language is not limited to Filipinos: Thais use "5555" to denote "hahahaha," since the number 5 in Thai language is pronounced as "ha."
The word Tagalog is possibly derived from the endonym taga-ilog ("river dweller"), composed of tagá-("native of" or "from") and ilog ("river"), or alternatively, taga-alog deriving from alog ("pool of water in the lowlands"; "rice or vegetable plantation").
Pasalubong is a Tagalog word, a variant of the word pansalubong or pangsalubong. It comes from the root word "salubong" which means "(to) welcome", "to meet", or "reception". The prefix "pa-" is a contraction of "pang-", roughly equivalent to the English suffix "-er". Thus, the word "pasalubong" can be roughly translated as "welcomer", or ...
Pinoy (Tagalog:) is a common informal self-reference used by Filipinos to refer to citizens of the Philippines and their culture as well as to overseas Filipinos in the Filipino diaspora. [page needed] A Pinoy who has any non-Filipino foreign ancestry is often informally called Tisoy.
Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards.
It deliberately transforms or creates words that resemble words from other languages, particularly English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German. It is colorful, witty, and humorous, with vocabularies derived from popular culture and regional variations.
This article deals with current phonology and phonetics and with historical developments of the phonology of the Tagalog language, including variants. Tagalog has allophones, so it is important here to distinguish phonemes (written in slashes / /) and corresponding allophones (written in brackets [ ]).