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Original Pilipino Music/OPM — Any musical composition created by a Filipino, whether the lyrics are in Filipino, English, or in any other language or dialect, regardless of the actual genre. Padre [1] — father. From Spanish. Palay [5] — Rice prior to husking. From Tagalog. Pampers [25] — Generalized trademark for disposable diapers
An example is the Tagalog word libre, which is derived from the Spanish translation of the English word free, although used in Tagalog with the meaning of "without cost or payment" or "free of charge", a usage which would be deemed incorrect in Spanish as the term gratis would be more fitting; Tagalog word libre can also mean free in aspect of ...
In some dialects of French, the English term "weekend" becomes la fin de semaine ("the end of week"), a calque, but in some it is left untranslated as le week-end, a loanword. French cor anglais (literally English horn) is a near-calque of English French horn. In English cor anglais refers to a completely different musical instrument.
To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world (Chinese proverb) [5] To the victor go the spoils; To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive; Tomorrow is another day; Tomorrow never comes; Too many cooks spoil the broth; Too little, too late; Too much of a good thing; Truth is stranger than fiction
Today Philippine English, as formally called based on the World Englishes framework of linguist Braj Kachru, is a recognized variety of English with its distinct lexical, phonological, and grammatical features (with considerable variations across socioeconomic groups and level of education being predictors of English proficiency in the ...
In the life of your child, you easily exchange thousands of words every day, or at the very least every week. And while many of these conversations may seem normal and even fairly inconsequential ...
Camps-Linney and Mackenzie begin, “We promise you: your dog isn’t giving you a hard time on purpose, they are probably having a hard time!”
Its most common use is in response to an affirmative statement, for example "I saw Mrs. Smith exercising, I swear!" to which the response given would be something like, "Yeah right, and cows fly". Other variations slightly fallen into disuse include cuando las ranas crien pelo ("when frogs grow hair") and cuando San Juan agache el dedo ("when ...