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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wonder how hard Tagalog is to learn from a grammatical perspective. I mean, if you think about it, our monosyllabic particles alone are very diverse in functions ("ba", "pa", "nga", "sa", "na").

Like these particles alone can change the entire meaning of a sentence:

  • "Meron pa?" (surprised)

  • "Meron na?" (not surprised)

  • "Meron nga?" (don't lie to me)

  • "Meron ba?" (legitimately inquiring)

  • "Meron sa?" (finding)

  • "Meron bang kalabasa sa palengke?"

  • "Meron na."

  • "Kailan pa?"

  • "Kahapon pa."

  • "Magkano ba?"

  • "PHP30.00 na."

  • "Ang mahal na, ah."

  • "Oo nga."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I once downloaded and tried to read a reference grammar for Filipino (Tagalog, as it's indicated in the document). It was an interesting experience trying to make sense of that document with zero linguistics knowledge and only guessing using what I "innately know" of the language.

As far as "one particle changing the meaning of the entire sentence" I think a close analog would be the Japanese か/かγͺ/ね used at the end of a sentence.

For example:

ηΎŽε‘³γ—γ„γ§γ™γ­γ€‚

[Romaji] Daijoubu desune(?)

[Filipino] Masarap 'no?

ε€§δΈˆε€«γ§γ™γ‹γ€‚

[Romaji] Oishii desuka?

[Filipino] Masarap ba?

ηΎŽε‘³γ—γ„γ‹γͺ。

[Romaji] Oishii kana?
[Filipino] Masarap kaya?
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think what you mean is "meron pa nga ba? Sana"?

Isa pa yan. We take it for granted, but we mash these monosyllabic particles together and somehow change what the sentence means.

"Meron pa" has certainty. "Meron pa nga" has insistence. "Meron pa nga ba?" questions the insistent certainty of the previous particles.

It's fun and at the same time confusing to think about HAHAHA

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"raw" at "daw"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Kung hindi mga peste, amoy naman yung nakakaasar.

Bakit kasi ayaw pa bumili nung kailangan para mawala yung amoy dito kainaman na...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Despite the shittons Microsoft added, Edge is a more customizable and performs better than Google Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Edge actually does perform better than Chrome, they actually managed to optimize a Chromium-based browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Chrome looks cleaner, but extensively tracks you everywhere with their Google trackers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree. My work involves having 15+ tabs open and Chrome turns my laptop into an unusable turtle or, worse, puts the tabs on sleep and refreshes when you move to it. Edge isn't the best, but does handle that a lot better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same same. Edge din gamit ko. Gusto ko rin sa Edge yung nakakagawa ng folder for all the tabs para malinis tapos pwede pa i-label. When you search, may suggestion/sagot yun chatbot. If you use the chatbot, naglalagay siya ng links for reference unlike other chatbots na sasagot lang.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Remember:

MBps or MB/s β‰  Mbps

To get your Internet speed in megabyte, just divide your megabit (Mbps) with 8.

5Mbps / 8 = 0.625MB/s or 625KBps

EDIT: Putangina, sabaw na sabaw ako. Bat ko ito shinare? lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

LMAO to those dumdums na hindi nagregister ng SIMs bago magdeadline. Panay reklamo sa sobrang bagal ng proseso ngayon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That annoying smelly smell.... πŸ˜‘

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Physically nasa work pero mentally wala sa wisho magwork. Anyway, how's everyone doing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's every single day (night) for me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

NANALO NA ANG PILIPINAS SA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP PERO PUTANG-INA HINDI PA RIN TAPOS ANG FLYOVER SA MOLINO

Edit: I regret this not

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Nauna pa Filipinas kaysa sa Azkals. Maybe they need their own LAQ (Lemmy Ask Q).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wait, so habang sa west may lumalaban sa AI dahil threat sa labor, sa S.Korea gumamit na ng AI para magrelease ng single in multiple languages?

Advantage pa naman ng Ppop yung ability magrelease ng English songs. So AI na kalaban ng mga Ppop now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Grabe ang lakas ng hangin na dala ni Egay, at Signal no 1 pa lang kami

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Me: conundrums

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Today’s Ask PHlemmy: What is a habit you picked up from your parents?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not having any vices. Closest was a sip of alcohol more than a decade ago, and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Need to pay bills as soon na makuha yung statement.

Though mas okay na today dahil sa online banking, whereas before, binibitbit ako ni mama sa payment center.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

drinking alcoholic drinks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"Pick up after yourself. Clean as you go."

Only in my own room am I allowed to relax and be a slob. However, I dislike things not being put back in their proper places, so things end up more or less orderly anyways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hugging. My father loved to cuddle with us (a lot, and that's one of the reasons why I feel like I'm closer to my dad than to my mom), his sons, to the point where I subconsciously picked up that habit of his and now I feel so satisfied whenever I get a pillow to hug (not the usual hug, but rather the one with one of your legs above the side of the person you're hugging).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The city just suspended work and classes in public and private institutions. It's already 4:20pm . πŸ’€

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mukhang babagsak na ulan anytime soon. The winds are starting to pick up the last hour or so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sometimes I cannot take this place.

Sometimes it's my life I can't taste.

Sometimes I cannot feel my face.

You'll never see me fall from grace.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

How does one deal with demotivation to work or to do most things, other than just pass the time and stare at the nothingness and the lack of direction of one's life. How does one regain the creative spark that was lost, the joy of life, the curiosity to learn and understand not just those around us but also within ourselves. How does one be "alive'?

Just leaving my random thoughts here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

At this point, my body just autopilots until I get home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On a more practical sense, someone once told me that discipline and habit is far more important than motivation once things are properly rolling. Motivation might be the spark that gotten things rolling, but it's discipline and habit that keeps it going. (And that I ought to listen to that advice myself.)

However, in a more philosophical sense, I think accepting that you've lost your own spark and facing that very question β€œhow does one be alive?” with the intent of reigniting that lost spark is pretty much facing the absurd. That facing that question every waking day of one's life, answering that question for every moment, is pretty much the point. Whether or not the answer makes sense (in the moment or otherwise) or not is irrelevant, because the value is not in the answer, but in the way we face it.

It could be that for today, I could face it by making a slight detour in my daily commute and allowing myself to get lost on the way home, for example. It could be that for some other day, just as an example, I could choose to face it by not wearing any underwear during a work zoom meeting, relishing on that danger of being exposed. Or it could be as trivial as making pancit by using spaghetti. Or making spaghetti by using pancit bihon. All trivial things in the big picture, but if it makes my day any little more tolerable, then so be it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Kinilig ang frennies because I had a meet cute moment while we were out. I think masyadong romantiko ang mga kaluluwa nila because the moment didn't really even register with me. Kung sila hopeless romantic siguro ako hopeless lang πŸ˜† jk

Nako, ayaw ko maglagay ng meaning sa mga bagay-bagay sumasakit lang ulo ko. I'll only allow myself to feel kilig kapag mukhang matino naman yung tao, napag-usapan na at may patutunguhan if it goes well. Hindi naman challenge pakiligin o magka feelings ako, it's just a matter of compatibility and if it's going to go somewhere.

It just be like that. We deserve people who will treat us right at pasasayahin tayo. I feel so grown up charot. Kapag napadaan ako sa timezone I shall practice my shooting zombies skill with composure. πŸ”« maybe it's an inner child thing, me and zombies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oww...yung comment ko using the discuss instance di nagsync dito. Keri lang.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

na LSS ako sa Super Shy. kaso yung 0.93x playback speed na edit ko 😭 banas talaga ako dun sa official ang bilis ee

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