I don't speak nor understand Spanish but I know a ton of loanwords in Tagalog. This video by #Langfocus is very interesting and I learned several new things. Like the fact that the Tagalog word for peanut 🥜 (“manî”) comes from Taíno and not Spanish or Nahuatl, and that “barkada” (group of friends) comes from the Spanish for “boatload”.

https://youtu.be/_sgjgFno4xY

#linguistics #languages #Spanish #Tagalog #etymology

Sophie Prime is a very interesting content creator from a linguistics standpoint.

There have been Filipino content creators who have been known for their own brand of gay slang (e.g. Queen Dura, Sesable, Macoy Dubs). But only Sophie Prime has achieved success this influential and *deliberate*.

And I say deliberate, because her followers literally maintain a dictionary for the slang they use.

#Filipino #Tagalog

"The Pitt" is more realistic because of the presence of 3 Filipino characters. Filipinos make up a sizeable portion of US hospital care (mostly nurses) but you rarely see them in TV hospital dramas.

In the US, 4% of the nursing workforce is made up of Filipinos, despite the demographic only making up 1% of the total US population.

#USA #TVshow #HBO #ThePitt #Philippines #Asian #Nurse #Hospital #HealthCare #Diversity #MedicalDrama #Tagalog #Filipino #TVdrama

https://usa.inquirer.net/186779/the-pitt-season-2-more-diverse-and-yes-more-tagalog-words-spoken

I am not comfortable with straight dudes and dudettes using "pakak" like a gangsta term. That's a gay slang first and foremost. They can't even pronounce it right—the stress is on the second syllable, not the first! >:(

#Tagalog

Znalazłem fajną wyszukiwarkę tagów w fediwersie

https://rstockm.github.io/mastotags/?q=Polska

#FediTips #tagalog #fedipomoc #mastotags #poradnik #ostatnininja

TIL: The #Filipino word "lugar" is from Spanish.

The #Tagalog words for "place" are the archaic "pook" and the even more archaic "lunán", from which we get the grammatical term "pang-abay na panlunan" ("adverb of place").

https://kwfdiksiyonaryo.ph/?query=lugar

I translated Miranda Priestly's iconic blue sweater monologue into #Tagalog for fun. Here are some interesting #Filipino words I learned:

Abrigo (n.) - sweater, jacket
Kubransa (n.) - collection
Almasen (n.) - department store