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Ilonggo-isms.
A while back, me and two ilonggo friends were sitting around just shooting the breeze when an annoying fly landed on one friend’s nose. After swatting it away, he wondered aloud: “What’s the hiligaynon word for langaw?” Without batting an eye, my other friend replied, “Fly, pre.”
I almost fell over laughing.
Ever since, I’ve been on the look-out for ilonggoisms like this, and on a recent trip, logged the following:
Taxi driver: “Kaulugot a. Ma-dugayan ta di, inday. Traffic.”
Janitress: “Waay signal di ang globe no? Kaina pa ni, a. Nag-text na ko gani sa akon self.”
Security Guard, responding to Janitress: “Tuod ka? Testinga beh i- turn on and off?”
Another taxi driver: “Diri ka sa piyak sulod, ‘day. Guba ang door.”
Fisherman: “Pagkalampas mo da, waay ka na makit-an nga balas. Bato na di ya. Pero ang mga bato di ya, gwapo ang pagka-arrange.”
LOL.
It’s not so much the casual and seamless integration of english words that gets me, it’s the perfect pronunciation in every case. “Traffic” wasn’t pronounced “trapik;” “Turn on and off” was said with clear articulation of every word, not “tarn onenop;” and “Arrange” was pronounced without a rolling r.
I love it.
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Written by rom
Rom is a twenty-one year old experiment. She began life with the notion that she was a Filipino-Chinese Ilongga. Now, she just thinks of herself as Ilongga, having realized that she has failed at being Chinese. At least that's what her aku told her upon learning that she had fallen in love with a Filipino.
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Drop by lang ko di Rom, ah. Ma pa-church pa ko bi, mo.
There are various Ilonggo accents, you know. In my elementary and high school we don’t appreciate the brogue that Ilonggos are known for. And you got Maid Miriam. Melk.
Of course I pronounce words like pageant as pagint inside a hiligaynon sentence. Paa-gent doesn’t sound right. But erplane is just illiterate.
Neil’s example, however, is CLASSIC.
Here, funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m92TXkQAGdQ
It’s nice to know gid ya, nga kasimanwa ka man gali, BrianB.
ilongga ka man gali.
Raised in Villa.
Ilonggo ako nga tunay. Nga naga-puyo sa higad sang baybay.
nagpuli lang ako sang ’sa ka adlaw. ilonggo man gali kamo diri? mayo a. dira lang ko sa north pt. kamo diin?
Daw kadamo bala sang ilonggo nga blogger ‘ga.
tiga-Jaro ko. 