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4.1 Introduction
Figure 1. Vice.com
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4.2 Discussion
The study of Pascual (2016) revealed that gays commonly used various
gay words in their daily conversations. The words used are formed in
different ways. Borrowing is commonly used like the following: cash and
carry (alright/okay), balay (house), chaka (gossip), chipangga (cheap), dyutay
(small), dugyot (dirty), fly (leave), gurang (old), kuning (deceitful), lafang (to
eat), jowa/dyowa/jowabelles (girl/boyfriend), karir (to flirt), mujer/murat
(woman), noches (male sex organ), otoki (boy), sayt (to see), takeshi (afraid),
anik (what), bet/betsung (like), bobaret (dumb), booking (one night stand),
gandacious (beautiful), getsung (to get), girlash (woman), girlalu (girl), igets
(to get), givsung (to give), paysung (to pay), preggy (pregnant),
becky/bekimon (gay), chimini (maid/servant), chova (a lie), clasmarurut
(classmate), echozera (a liar), enlababo (in love) fez/fezlak (face), ites/itey
(this), mahalia (expensive), patty (fat/chubby), payola/payus (pay).
Moreover, they also use words by playing with words like in the following
examples: bahoma (odorous), batsi (to leave), bogmali (blow job), alaws
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word and the last syllable of the second word) like in suhod from suso and
tuhod meaning susohanggangtuhod (big bust) and badaf from bakladapat
where p is changed to f (Fromkin, 2010). Further, using names of popular
persons or places like in Baliwag (name of place) meaning baliw (crazy), Luz
Valdez meaning talo (lose). Using figure of speech like onomatopoeia,
involves the use of sounds to mean something like in kumukokak (sound of a
frog) meaning nagsasalita (talking) and metaphor meaning to use figurative
expressions like in bukasnakarinderya for someone sitting carelessly. Mix-mix
involves mixing words from two or more languages like in buko juice
(coconut milk) meaning blow job and “on diet datung” meaning no money.
The gays’ major reasons for creating words of their own are varied: to
become unique/different from other people, to serve as their identity, to
belong or accepted in a group, to give them pleasure, and to make them
inventive.
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4.3 References
Alba, RA. (2006). In Focus: the Filipino gaypeak (Filipino Gay Lingo).
https://ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-arts/in-focus/the-filipino-
gayspeak-filipino-gay-lingo/.
Bautista, Ma. Lourdes, 1996.Readings in Philippine sociolinguistics. Manila:
De la Salle University Press.
Celce, Diane, et al. The grammar book. Manila: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Fromkin, V, et al. 2010. Introduction to linguistics. Singapore: Cengage
learning Asia Pte. Ltd.
Garcia, Neil, 1996. Philippine gay culture. Quezon City. University of the
Philippines Press. 5. Hudson, R. 1987. Sociolinguistics. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Hart, D., & Hart, H. (1990). Visayan Swardspeak: the language of a gay
community in the Philippines. Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of
Southeast Asian Studies, 5(2), 27-49.
Pascual, G. R. (2016). Sward speak (gay lingo) in the Philippine context: A
morphological analysis. International Journal of Advanced Research in
Management and Social Sciences, 5(12), 32-36.
4.4 Acknowledgement
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The authors would like to extend their heartiest thanks and respect to all those
who provided help in the preparation of this module. The information
contained in this module was taken from the references cited above.
Furthermore, credits is given to: Rappler.com; Freedomhouse.com; and
CNN.com
Unit 3 Assessment.
Part I. Multiple Choice. Select the letter of the best answer and write in a
separate answer sheet.
2. What was the reason why gays thought of creating words/language of their
own as gay lingo?
A) Due to experiences of intimidation and/or embarrassing situations;
B) Due to lack of innovation in the common language;
C) Due to boring conversations among the masses.
D) Due to their difficulty in speaking the majority language.
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B) Dedma
C) Pal
D) Badet
10. Which local language do not have words derived for swardspeak?
A) Cebuano
B) Hiligaynon
C) Waray
D) None of the above
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