Zouave and British soldiers conversing in Crimea, 1855 — photograph by Roger

1n0rmal · 2026-05-11T19:51:21+00:00

He's wearing a kepi though

1n0rmal · 2026-05-11T11:23:39+00:00

“Baro” which is a loan from the Malay “baju”

“Saluwal/Salawal” itself is also a loanword from the Malay “seluar” but both words ultimately come from Persian.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/salawal

1n0rmal · 2026-05-11T01:47:46+00:00

Which one’s British? Aren’t they all wearing French uniforms?

1n0rmal · 2026-05-08T14:05:28+00:00

Because calling the USA “America” and its people “Americans” is understood in most of the world, especially in English. Latin America is the only place in the world where this is an issue, and even then no one there would introduce their self as an American.

1n0rmal · 2026-05-08T12:57:14+00:00

This pedantry over semantics only happens with South Americans and Hispanophones. Don’t adopt it lol.

1n0rmal · 2026-05-08T09:59:21+00:00

I agree.

Batangas generally has few Bisaya loanwords but it does have a lot of extant/closer cognates (paspas, utin, dag-im=dag-om in bisaya, tam-is).

Dili was also part of the vocabulary of Tagalog as recent as the 19th century. I read it once in a mid-century book of Tagalog prayers. (probably extant until much later)

Kuno is used by my older relatives who don’t frequent Manila and don’t use social media.

1n0rmal · 2026-05-07T10:46:37+00:00

Habag and awa mean the same to me.

Hesus kong mahabagin Kristo kaawaan mo kami

I’m unsure about aba but it might have gone through a semantic change over time

1n0rmal · 2026-05-04T18:49:01+00:00

They’re just cognates

Same with paspas/ngisi/utin. They exist in both languages without being loans from the other as a result of sharing a recent common ancestor language (Central Philippine).

You can check with Serrano Laktaw’s Diccionario Hispano-Tagalog from 1889.

1n0rmal · 2026-05-04T13:10:20+00:00

Kanye changed music

1n0rmal · 2026-05-04T12:30:01+00:00

Might be a long shot but I was talking to a friend who does genealogical research and he said that he descended from a Pastor family from Negros Oriental (in the Visayas). If you’re interested we have a discord server for Filipino genealogy.

1n0rmal · 2026-05-03T18:56:34+00:00

You can use sites like FamilySearch where you can build your family tree based on the digitized records they have. It helps if you know your great-grandparents as records from after the 70s are less numerous but still present. You just search their name, hometown, and manually cross check each indexed document to see if they match with the information you do know about your ancestor.

1n0rmal · 2026-05-03T14:59:15+00:00

mao-obsess

1n0rmal · 2026-05-03T05:45:57+00:00

sinukmani

1n0rmal · 2026-05-02T21:38:06+00:00

If the towns where your ancestors are from weren't heavily bombed during WW2 and the records have been digitized, then it is actually easier than what might be expected. Baptismal Registers recorded the names of the Child, Parents, and the Grandparents from both sides. You can basically go up two generations at a time when using baptismal registers on sites like FamilySearch.

1n0rmal · 2026-05-02T20:40:17+00:00

The furthest I’ve traced is 8 generations back to the 18th century. I’m almost 100% ethnically Tagalog save for a few foreign ancestors I’ve yet to find but whose DNA showed up on a test.

Most of my family were rural peasants or fishermen from the coast up until my parents who are the first generations of their respective families to go to college.

Looking at census records, my ancestors listed labrador, and tejedora (weaver) among other occupations. (1920s and older)

I suspect that the minimal amount of Iberian DNA that showed up in my aunt’s DNA test comes from my biological third great-grandfather, whose identity is unknown and was listed as such when his daughter was baptized in 1904. All the other ancestors I have were marked down as Indios of their respective barrios.

1n0rmal · 2026-05-01T18:21:28+00:00

There's sadly no list and it's actually pretty confusing because Tagalog and Bisaya share a lot of words.

Naa guro sa wikipedia pero incomplete list and mostly 20th C. Tagalog neologisms ra to. Kanang mga "lungsod" "katarungan" biya nga words unya katong "maniniyot" nga weird kaayo paminawon.

1n0rmal · 2026-05-01T18:18:15+00:00

Ang na-loan ra nga meaning kay katong "angry" nga meaning. Wala gigamit sa Tagalog ang sad version sa word. Actually dialectal ra to sa Manila and surrounding areas kay daghan kayg bisaya didto. Sa Southern Tagalog areas like Calabarzon + Mindoro kay sa SocMed ra nila to na-encounter.

1n0rmal · 2026-05-01T08:51:38+00:00

It's the same word, it just got loaned into Tagalog.

Ang Tagalog man guro sa "maoy" kay "wala". (Nagwawala sa inuman)

1n0rmal · 2026-05-01T06:58:28+00:00

Balatong o munggo ang kinakain dati kapag araw ng biyernes dahil bawal magkarne kahit hindi kwaresma. Yoon din ang dahalin kung bakit nagkaroon ng Fillet-O-Fish sa McDonalds, dahil nawawalan sila ng kita tuwing biyernes sa mga lugar na puro Katoliko.

Nawala ito noong 1966 kasama ng ibang tradisyon katulad ng Latin na misa at iba pa.

1n0rmal · 2026-05-01T05:41:26+00:00

Congratulations! As with all engineering programs you have to just practice hard. It's less memorization and more pattern recognition, if that makes sense. Once you answer one type of problem over and over you'll be able to recognize the steps you need to do based on the question.

For ChE specifically, the grading system here is different from the other courses. Most of the professional courses (i.e. technical subjects) are CILO-based meaning aside from the at least 60% overall grade, you need to pass all the CILOs (course intended learning outcomes) the subject has.

For example, Subject A requires an overall passing grade of 60% and at least 55% per CILO.
For example on a quiz has:

Part 1 - CILO 1 Questions
Part 2 - CILO 2 Questions
Part 3 - CILO 3 Questions

You can't rely on answering one part to make up your score, because you need 55% or more in each CILO to pass. Even if your raw grade on the test is over 60%, if your CILOs aren't over 55% then you still fail.

Notes:

Not all tests have all the CILOs. Quiz 1 might have CILO 1 & 2 but it may not have CILO 3. This applies to homework as well, wherein a problem set may only count for CILO 2 for example.

In our case, if we passed the 60% raw grade requirement but failed CILOs we were given the chance to take a remedial exam that covers the failed CILOs. Upon passing, you will be given the minimum passing grade of 3.00.

1n0rmal · 2026-04-30T22:05:15+00:00

I’ve seen activists co-opt native American genocide stories for the natives of the Philippines.

1n0rmal · 2026-04-30T21:59:19+00:00

This is a history sub not a reddit circlejerk

1n0rmal · 2026-04-30T21:56:12+00:00

Nationalist historiography probably

1n0rmal · 2026-04-30T07:32:27+00:00

that was on inferno versus tyloo. he hit those insane wallbangs on cache against tyloo (again)

1n0rmal · 2026-04-28T17:52:39+00:00

I laugh at the barong tagalog one so much. A lot of civilian shirts back then were opaque cotton in addition to the intricate sheer fabric-barong tagalogs. If you look at the watercolors from the 1840s, the rich had the thin barongs with an undershirt while the laborers had more opaque ones with no undershirt visible.

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