Brushing up on my Bisaya: ''Kadyot lang, nong", I would hear people say as they alight from the jeepney. These words usually follow after they would shout "lugar lang!" to the driver. "Lugar lang" means ''para" or "para sa tabi" or "tabi lang" in the tagalog vernacular -- people would say this to the jeepney driver when they want to stop and get off.
What about ''Kadyot Lang"? Many Manileños are already familiar with these two words from Love Radio's played-to-death jingle "Kailangan pa bang i-memorize yan?". "Kadyot lang" actually means "sandali lang" in tagalog, although it sounds as if it means something else (hmmm... something naughty comes to mind?? Kaw ha! Hehehe!)
Other interesting words:
When traffic gets tangled up at an intersection and the traffic officer couldn't seem to untangle it, the jeepney driver would say ''naglibog na!" (Nalito na)
When a person asks a favor from someone, like when someone is paying his fare to the jeepney driver and his arms aren't long enough, they would say "palihug" (please) to someone up front who could pass on the payment.
Well, anyway, my nose is unclogged finally! Yipee! This means I could fly again in a plane! But now i've got an itchy throat like a dry cough that continuously tickles the throat. And I still have to do a lecture tomorrow morning. Hopefully, a night of rest will make the itchy throat go away. Otherwise my audience will be treated to a "barking" lecturer, coughing and wheezing. Oh well, nothing's perfect. Pasensiya na lang sila, hehehe.
I'll post some travel pics when I get back to Manila.
Ah, sometimes you can surmise where the person is from just by their jeepney lingo.I use "Para, Manong" to get off the jeep both in Baguio and in Manila. while people here use the word "Mama" instead of "Manong", which sounds strange in Baguio. Manong, however, sounds ok. Nakakalito na ba? hehehe
ReplyDeleteThe first time I went to Manila to ride a jeepney, I was very uncomfortable calling the driver "Mama" so I continued calling him "Manong" until my classmates teased me, so I used "Mama" from then on =)
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ReplyDeleteeh,.. hey!! sasabihin ko "para po manong." "para sa tabe" o ang sinasabe ko sa jeepney driver "sa tabi lang." o kaya "para sa tabe". o kaya "para po manong para sa tabe." hihi