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Lexical Mettle

Over the weekend, I stumbled across this site. The author prepared an Excel file that would serve as a self-checking questionnaire. It’s a fairly straight forward test. You download the file and translate each Filipino word (200 of them) to its English counterpart. The initial letter of each answer was also given to serve as a clue.

Download the Excel file here.

I got a score of 75% (150 out of 200). I challenge you to take this test. See if you can beat a Batangueño.

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Jologs-Fixated

For some reason, this corner of the Pinoy Blogosphere has suddenly become hooked obsessed with Jologs. This sudden surge seems to have been caused by one Ade Magnaye who has been churning out articles that show the ‘finest’ example of the Jolog species umm.. socio-cultural clade. Aside from the usual spam comments, death threats and indecent proposals that the author usually gets for everything he writes, his work also set off a deluge of similarly themed articles that either showed all out disdain, pure amusement and a perfect opportunity to make fun of one’s children.

Carl Jung‘s collective unconscious must be at work here: looking for more Jologs-related articles? click here and here.

To preserve my reputation as a family-friendly blogger, I advise children to call their parents to accompany them while they read the next lines of this article.

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