Kumusta po/ka - how are you?
ingat -take care

Magandang tanghali - lunchtime greeting

wala po anuman.

(well it has been 3 years... perhaps i will try again)

I knew

salamat - thank you

but I did not know the reply


"wala po anuman which means you're welcome.." -
diane


Wala po anuman - you're welcome

now i need to know how to parse this sentence.

wala = ?
po = honorific?
anuman = ?

Scuptus Poe Speaks Some Tagalog 001

Well, I actually used magandang hapon... There was an older fillipino brother at jimmy's house and I said... "Magandang hapon" apparently close to correct... but i forgot the honorific 'po' So I was corrected...

the propper phrase to be said to an older person is :

Magandang hapon po.

to which he replied

Salamat

Sculptus Poe remembers some words 002

Here are some words (and perhaps phrases) that i think i remember from BYKI... but i keep forgetting some of them

my memory is slipperier than a greased eel... for some reason i can't remember magandang for anything... and when i remember it i say it wrong... gads.. but here they are... perhaps its cheating because I just did the byki a few minutes ago... but oh well




magandang umaga - Good morning
magandang hapon - good evening
magandang gabi - good night

Ginang - Mrs.
Ginoong - Mr.

for some reason I can't bring myself to say anyting in tagalog to somebody who actually knows it.. same thing with japanese or spanish...the other day i was ording midnights (media noches) from the mexican store in clewiston... I couldhave ordered in spanish.. (and everybody talked to me as if i knew spanish... perhaps i look latino) ... but I played the gringo no hablo espanole card and just stared at them funny...though sometimes i attack somebody who most probably doesnt know these languages with random phrases just to confuse them... perhaps its a disease

Collecting the tools 002

From the James I have received the link to before you know it www.byki.com
I'll download it and give it a shot

Collecting the tools 001

check out http://www.viloria.com/wp/ it's a tagalog podcast

I forget the name of the free software James found, I'll have to get it from him.

Sculptus Poe remembers some words 001

Here is the tagalog I'v learned so far

tagalog alam ko: (i think that means "tagalog i know" whether or not that is an appropriate title to begin a list of tagalog that i know... hindi ko alam.)

i'll start with words i know.. or think i know.. if i am wrong please comment to fix my errors(i probably wont look up spelling... though i may...but if it's spelled wrong fix me too). salamat


oo - yes, afirmative
hindi - no, negitive
salamat - thank you
manga - a pluraliser (?)
bastos - lewd nasty (a cussword somewhat)
pero - however (?)(i think iv heard it used)
bakla- gay
ko - pertaining to me
alam - know
ang - it is(?)(that is probably wrong ...ang hindi... xD what did i just say? probably not "it is wrong" as i ment it to mean ... even if i am right about ang.. it probably means "it is no" which makes no sense)

some nouns:
babae - woman
fillipino - a fillipino dude or something related to the phillipines or the official language of the phillipines(masculin( is that spelled right? perhaps sculptus poe should learn english))
fillipina - like a fillipino...but a chick
balisong - butterfly knife
barong tagalog - fillipino dress shirt
tinikling - a dance somewhat akin to double dutch but instead of ropes two people try to smash your feet with two parallel bamboo poles... mostfun
adobo - most awsome foodstuff . half vinegar half soy sauce to cover chicken half cup brown sugar bay leaves couple sections of garlic black pepper. boil slowly untill the liquid goes below the chicken level and add water to keep the chicken (or whatever meat) covered. cook untill chicken comes easily off the bones. keep covered over night to let the juices sink in(don't refrigerate) heat up and serve over rice.(recipee stolen (and perhaps somewhat mis-remembered) from jimmy madriaga sr. master of fillipino cuisine)

some phrases:

Hindi ko alam - i don't know
alam ko - i know

and that concludes the racking of Sculptus Poe's brain for this session, come back tomorro when Sculptus Poe asks "what is the true meaning of 'bading ka'?"