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I was looking through the entries at Ateneo Planking, when I found this:
HOW DID HE DO THIS? My mind, it boggles. @__@
HOW DID HE DO THIS? My mind, it boggles. @__@
bisperas ng pasko
24 December 2008 11:27 amAs I was staring off into space this morning, I suddenly remembered that the Tagalog word for Christmas, pasko, came from the word pascua, which (oddly enough) is Spanish for Easter.
So how did Easter become Christmas in the Philippines? We may never know the exact etymological route that word undertook, but I'd like to think it's because of the symbolism inherent in the two Christian holidays. Christmas is the celebration1 of Jesus' birth, while Easter is the celebration of his re-birth. Christmas is our Easter, then, a time when we celebrate the coming of Jesus Christ in the world. Which sort of makes sense, if you squint and you tilt your head just so.
In any case, whether or not what I wrote above made sense, I'd like to greet you all a Maligayang Pasko!
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1. Maybe I should have used the word "commemoration". Hmm. Must think on this.
So how did Easter become Christmas in the Philippines? We may never know the exact etymological route that word undertook, but I'd like to think it's because of the symbolism inherent in the two Christian holidays. Christmas is the celebration1 of Jesus' birth, while Easter is the celebration of his re-birth. Christmas is our Easter, then, a time when we celebrate the coming of Jesus Christ in the world. Which sort of makes sense, if you squint and you tilt your head just so.
In any case, whether or not what I wrote above made sense, I'd like to greet you all a Maligayang Pasko!
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1. Maybe I should have used the word "commemoration". Hmm. Must think on this.
European English
25 September 2008 04:04 pmThis should be my icon for this entry: 
Copypasta'd from Liz's Multiply:
European English
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English' .
In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'.
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
--from a forwarded email message. 8D
Copypasta'd from Liz's Multiply:
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English' .
In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'.
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
--from a forwarded email message. 8D
twilight madness
23 September 2008 05:44 pmOkay. When I got home earlier, I fully intended to finish all my homework that's due tomorrow.
Instead, I went and read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cleolinda's Twilight Recaps1. Just like that, my plans for the afternoon went 'bye-bye' with nary2 a protesting thought.
Also: I ate pizza for lunch. Huzzah!
1 I tried reading Twilight myself and I couldn't take Bella's boring first-person narration after just 5 pages on the ebook. But I want to know what happens because I fully intend to watch the film for the following reasons: a.)this parody cracks me up; b.) the director seems crazy to me; and c.) Rpattz (aka 'Spunk Ransom' -- *dies laughing*) rocksand is sorta-kinda high in this interview.
2I love that word. Nary. Nary nary nary. Heh.
Instead, I went and read
cleolinda's Twilight Recaps1. Just like that, my plans for the afternoon went 'bye-bye' with nary2 a protesting thought.Also: I ate pizza for lunch. Huzzah!
1 I tried reading Twilight myself and I couldn't take Bella's boring first-person narration after just 5 pages on the ebook. But I want to know what happens because I fully intend to watch the film for the following reasons: a.)this parody cracks me up; b.) the director seems crazy to me; and c.) Rpattz (aka 'Spunk Ransom' -- *dies laughing*) rocks
2I love that word. Nary. Nary nary nary. Heh.
Y HALO THAR
15 September 2008 06:08 pmI just wanted to show off my brand new shiny (I initially typed "sinny" -- Freudian slip, Y/Y?) icon because I was reading old wankery over at Fandom Wank and you can never get tired of Catholic jokes, dunchaknow? And this is totally not some lame way to procrastinate because I just couldn't afford to procrastinate as I feel as if I'm failing or at least getting a D in all of my core subjects, wahoo! But wait -- reading up on Ye Olde Internete Dramæ (I've been wanting to use the letter "æ" all day!) could be counted as procrastination right? Oh snap.
My head is aching and my body is sore all over. Also, I'd like to eat chocolate pudding, only we don't have chocolate pudding right now. In fact, I haven't even tasted chocolate pudding in my life, so I don't know why I'm starting to crave for it. Maybe it's because I ate vanilla pudding earlier. Which is probably why I have a headache because...I don't know why, it just is. In which case, I used causal inference heuristic #4 (Unusualness: 2 unusual things happen within a single timeframe, and the mind immediately leaps to the conclusion that one caused the other despite the utter batshit craziness of that logic). Who says Cognitive Psychology isn't fun? Certainly not me!
I made Rai jealous earlier because I had my printed-out copy of Humanæ Vitæ (HA! "Æ"!) fastened onto a yellow and brown folder that has "Made in Germany" printed on the back, but in English, not in German. I don't know how that has anything to do with the jealousy issue, but then there you go.
Did you know that paracetamol is derived from coal tar? I just downed a tablet of paracetamol. So does that mean I have a coal tar derivative in my system right now?
Why is the blue sky?
What's the point, PowerPoint?
See you later, Wally Gator!
My head is aching and my body is sore all over. Also, I'd like to eat chocolate pudding, only we don't have chocolate pudding right now. In fact, I haven't even tasted chocolate pudding in my life, so I don't know why I'm starting to crave for it. Maybe it's because I ate vanilla pudding earlier. Which is probably why I have a headache because...I don't know why, it just is. In which case, I used causal inference heuristic #4 (Unusualness: 2 unusual things happen within a single timeframe, and the mind immediately leaps to the conclusion that one caused the other despite the utter batshit craziness of that logic). Who says Cognitive Psychology isn't fun? Certainly not me!
I made Rai jealous earlier because I had my printed-out copy of Humanæ Vitæ (HA! "Æ"!) fastened onto a yellow and brown folder that has "Made in Germany" printed on the back, but in English, not in German. I don't know how that has anything to do with the jealousy issue, but then there you go.
Did you know that paracetamol is derived from coal tar? I just downed a tablet of paracetamol. So does that mean I have a coal tar derivative in my system right now?
Why is the blue sky?
What's the point, PowerPoint?
See you later, Wally Gator!
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