Spending entirely too much time in the Brgy. . .
[QUOTE=EngineDriver;2498232]No one can quite do Filipino English like you Westie. Entertaining report![/QUOTE]Its not: Only four inches. Its: "Four inches only". Well, that's what my girl said to me this morning.
If she says: "I will bok to dare", she means she will go back there.
The building you are looking for is not: Next to the Jolliebee. It is "Near in a Jollie".
You don't: Need some money, or need money. You: "Need a money".
You are not: Eating shrimp. You are: "Having a shrimps". You are not: Buying some food. You are: "Buying a foods".
The typhoon is not bad because of heavy wind speeds you saw on the news. It is bad because: "Mama say bad dare dit TY-poon". We are not experiencing a heavy storm or typhoon. We are: "Having a TY-poon".
You are not waiting inanely and indefinitely. You are waiting "For a while, sir". If you hear these words, stop, walk away from that place, and go back to some other aspect of your life. You can thank me later.
You are not asking for two cans of Coke or Pepsi. You say: "I want a two Coke".
You don't have twenty-five pesos. You have: "Vain-chinco" or "Bayntee singko" (from the Spanish veinticinco, I think).
You don't need to: Fix your problem. You need to: "Pix dis problem mine".
Your phone is not vibrating. "My phone its bi-vrate".
My problem is that sometimes I slip and say something like that around a Brit or Canadian here. Sorry gents: "Sometimes I'm talking a pee-noy. Problema ikaw, wala ako".