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Monday, October 8, 2007

baa baa but no black sheep

One very fascinating thing about the Filipino language is that two people can actually have a sensible conversation with a mere repetition of the syllable 'ba'.

In an elevator:

Pinoy 1: Bababa ba?
Pinoy 2: Bababa.


This whole scenario is literally translated as:

Filipino 1: Going down, is it?
Filipino 2: Going down.

Bababa. Hahaha!

1 made me smile:

John said...

hahahah. :-)

 
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