⌛ Today's Lesson - 3

Here is another English lesson from The Teach.

This one is for Lexophiles (Lovers of words)



A bicycle cannot stand alone - it is two tired.

A will is a dead giveaway.

A backward poet writes inverse.

A chicken crossing the road - poultry in motion.

If you don't pay your exorcist you could get repossessed.

With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.

When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France - result - Linoleum Blownapart.

A calendar's days are numbered.

Acupuncture - a jab well done.



Al.

 

Hey there teach, got an Italian friend Mike Raphone, loves Karaoke. another guy is a cracker jack Mechanic, Allen Rench, maybe you know theseguys? Another buddy was Phillip said, one of those screw ups,everybody knows one.

I said to my sweet pea, lettuce elope tonight. She replied we cantelope tonight to which I replied with a sad heart, oh honey dew. Corny huh?

 

Yes, corny but good.:D

Al.

 

hehe ...
guys, hard for me, but I finally got it, I gonna teach you pilippino english... to easy ones for now...

prying fan and swimming fool...

more to follow... anyway, did you know that the filipino ABK has no C and some other letters??? Just wondering about Cebu and Boracay if there is no C in the alphabet.... or how can they eat fried fish.... without a F in the ABK... hehe...

sorry, 7 years here in the best country (por me) in the world takes his toll

cheers

Rhoddy

 

"Boracay" and "Cebu" evolved from "Borakay" and "Sugbu". The Spanish conveniently altered them their way.
Fried fish (pried pish) stinks so I prefer to eat "piniritong isda" and "bulad" in DC or "buwad" in Cebu, "kanang mako kaadyo" as my Bol-anon brother would say. "Wa-ay ko guid gatikal, ah!" (I'm not lying!).
I just love the richness of Bisaya.

 

Rhoddy, new name? he he

The original visayan alphabet came from sanskrit and Alibata. The spanish suplanted that with the latin alphabet of which the following letters are used, the vowel sounds have there own unique pronunciation and are treated as additional letters.
Spanish derrived alphabet:
Vowels consonants
Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo, Uu Bb, Cc, Dd, Ff, Gg, Hh, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn NGng, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

In "pure" visayan dialect if you can find it, only the following letters are used
A, E, I, O, U B, D, G, H, K, L, M, N, NG, P, R, S, T, V, W, Yv

The vowels only can be pronounced (I have read), and the consonants have no sound unless they are coupled with a vowel. So the theory goes. In reality nobody in the provinces may agree because the language is not taught in schools and every region and sub region has their own idiomatic expression
Cebu drops the L sound and other provinces in the visayas drop other consonants, not sure which do what.

Now can I speak it? no, but I am trying to figure it out. the problem, is for me I am not an auditory learner, and the language is all learned orally at the local level. And there is much disagreement on how it works I am discovering.