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Esophoria is an eye condition involving inward deviation of the eye, usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance. It is a type of heterophoria. Cause. Causes include: Refractive errors; Divergence insufficiency; Convergence excess; this can be due to nerve, muscle, congenital or mechanical anomalies.
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 ...
A Tagalog speaker, recorded in South Africa.. Tagalog (⫽ t ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l ɒ ɡ ⫽, tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɣaː.loɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority.
Tagalog profanity can refer to a wide range of offensive, blasphemous, and taboo words or expressions in the Tagalog language of the Philippines. Due to Filipino culture, expressions which may sound benign when translated back to English can cause great offense; while some expressions English speakers might take great offense to can sound ...
It is the primary language of pre-colonial Tondo, Namayan and Maynila. The language originated from the Proto-Philippine language and evolved to Classical Tagalog, which was the basis for Modern Tagalog. Old Tagalog uses the Tagalog script or Baybayin, one of the scripts indigenous to the Philippines .
Bahala na ( Tagalog: [baˈhala ˈna]) is a Filipino term and value of either fatalism towards life or determinism in challenging situations. [1] [2] [3] It can be translated to mean "whatever happens, happens," "things will turn out fine," or as "I'll take care of things." [4] In Sikolohiyang Pilipino ( Filipino Psychology) it is described as ...
Boondocks. The boondocks is an American expression from the Tagalog (Filipino) word bundók ("mountain"). It originally referred to a remote rural area, [1] but now, is often applied to an out-of-the-way area considered backward and unsophisticated by city-folk. It can also occasionally refer to a mountain in both Filipino and American context.
Filipinologists. Experts on Filipinology or Philippineology are called filipinologists or philippineologists (Spanish: Filipinologista) (Tagalog: Pilipinolohista ); literally “experts in Philippine culture”. According to Rosa M. Vallejo the "foremost non-Filipino filipinologist" is the Spaniard bibliographer Wenceslao Emilio Retana y Gamboa.