• funesto@sh.itjust.works
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    21 days ago

    And is pronounced “Pilipino” by most Filipinos. But my Filipino wife, who grew up in South Carolina, had a friend who said “Flippin-o”. So that’s what we say now, lol.

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      21 days ago

      “Flippin-o” sounds like if a kids show tried to create a fake curse word, so they could curse on air, without being fined by the FCC.

      It’s all a bunch of smoo!

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      That’s not because of the spelling but because of the language. Just like Indonesian, the language doesn’t distinguish between f and p, because they’re basically the same letter (one is a plosive and one is a fricative but that’s it). In Indonesian you’ll hear fancake and coppee, for example.