Bisaya ka ba?

sapphire08
By sapphire08

Forwarded by a Bisaya-obsessed individual from an unidentified but presumably Bisaya source with a Tagalog interpreter. Apologies to readers who cannot understand or get the joke --- it's a regional thing. You must either be a Bisaya yourself or someone obsessed enough with our beautiful and dynamic language to appreciate it.

1) Contemplate - gamay ra ang plato
2) Punctuation - para bayad sa skuylahan
3) Ice Buko - nindot akong buhok?
4) Tenacious - sapatos pang tennis
5) Calculator - tawagan taka unya
6) Devastation - terminal sa bus
7) Protestant - tindahan ug prutas
8) Statue - ikaw ba na?
9) Tissue - ikaw gyud diay!
10) Predicate - buhi-e ang iring
11) Dedicate - patya ang iring
12) Aspect - para dugmok sa ice
13) Deduct - ang itik
14) Defeat - ang tiil (sa itik)
15) Detail - ang ikog (sa itik)
16) Deposit - ang gripo (Call DIPLOMA if DEPOSIT is leaking)
17) City - sunod sa 6
18) Cattle - pina-akan sa lamok
19) Persuading - pinaka una nga kasal
20) Depress - ang nag misa sa kasal
22) Defense - gamit para pirma sa kontrata sa PERSUADING
23) It depends - kaona ang koral
24) Shampoo - sunod sa 9 before sa 11 (klaro ana!)
25) Profit - pakita og ibidensya!
26) Balance Sheet - what comes out after eating a balanced diet
27) Backlog - bacon og itlog
28) Beehive - pag puyo! behave!
29) CD-ROM - tan-awa ang kwarto (see the room)
30) Debug - ang mananap (bug)
31) Defrag - ang baki (frog)
32) Defense - ang koral (fence)
33) Defer - ang balhibo
34) Deflate - ang plato
35) Detest - ang eksamin
36) Devalue - ang sunod sa leter V
37) Devote - ang boto
38) Dilemma - ngit-ngita oi!
39) Effort - asa mo landing ang airplane
40) Forums - upat ka kwarto
41) July - namakak ka?
42) Thesis - kani ay!

In fairness to all mga Bisaya, they have a highly-evolved language. They should be congratulated for being the very creative people that we are. Look, that creativity even manifests itself in the way our tongues move and sometimes influence how we speak.

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