Philippines [ᜉᜒᜎᜒᜉᜒᜈᜐ᜔]

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/608666

Starting on April 11 and scheduled to last until April 28, the largest ever military exercise is underway in the South China Sea. These confrontational “war games” are called Balikatan, meaning “shoulder-to-shoulder.” Annual exercises have been the cornerstone of Philippine-U.S. military relations, since a mass movement demanded and won the closure of U.S. bases in the Philippines. They are a way to continue U.S. [neo]imperialist penetration of the Philippine military.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/607891

(Yes, that's an actual province here in the Philippines)

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/607891

(Yes, that's an actual province here in the Philippines)

I think I'm starting to align to Juche now so I'm not sure if PKP-1930 accepts Juche

Baybayin is an ancient writing script in the Philippines. In fact, Baybayin is used in this community's name.

Consonants are as follows:

Bb, Kk, Dd/Rr, Gg, Hh, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ngng ^[1]^, Pp, Ss, Tt, Ww, and Yy.

The other letters in the Philippine Latin alphabet (see fig 1): Cc, Ff, Jj, and especially Qq, Xx, Zz are rarely used when speaking Tagalog or any Filipino language because all words there are written phonetically regardless if Baybayin or Roman ^2^. That said the modern Baybayin made by the University of the Philippines (see Fig 2), may address the loanword question.

Fig 1. The Philippines' Latin Alphabet

Fig 2. UP's new Latin alphabet.

Notes:

^1:^ "Ngng" counts as as a separate letter in the Philippines due to words like "nguya" (to chew/eat);

^2:^ The exception to this rule can be seen when writing in Roman, where all loanwords are spelled and pronounced in the exact same way from the language it borrows from.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baybayin#Characteristics

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/559448

The one time I'm proud to be Pinoy

Transcription (since Windows 11 can't render it): ᜀᜃᜓ︀ ᜐᜒ ᜌᜓᜑᜈ᜔᜵ ᜁᜐᜅ᜔ 16 ᜈ ᜆᜂᜅ᜔-ᜄᜓᜎᜅ᜔ ᜈ ᜋᜍ᜔ᜃ᜔ᜐᜒᜐ᜔ᜆ-ᜎᜒ︀ᜈᜒᜈᜒᜐ᜔ᜆᜅ᜔ GachaTuber ᜈ ᜄᜓᜋᜄᜏ ᜅ᜔ rant ᜅ᜔ ᜃᜓᜅ᜔ ᜀᜈᜓᜀᜈᜓ︀ ᜐ ᜌᜓᜆᜓᜊ᜔᜶ ᜋᜑᜎ᜔ ᜃᜓ︀ ᜀᜅ᜔ ᜍᜐ᜔ᜌ! Z 🇵🇭💖🇷🇺

Romanized: Ako si [Johanne], isang 16 na taong gulang na Marksista-Leninistang Gachatuber na gumagawa ng rant ng kung anu-ano sa [Youtube]. Mahal ko ang [Russia] Z 🇵🇭💖🇷🇺

It seems I'm the only person I know who is a communist Filipino Youtuber and I feel a bit isolated.

Courtesy of RationalWiki

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A one stop-shop for a new disease plaguing the Philippines called "MarKKKoᛋᛋ [sic] Syndrome"

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EDIT: I keep uploading a GIF, but Lemmygrad would keep converting it to a MP4. Sorry.

Philippines was the name given by Spanish Colonists once they "discovered" the already-inhabited archipelago next to Malaysia and Indonesia. The name was based from King Philip, a Spanish King.

Given that the name has colonial backgrounds, shouldn't the country try to move forward from its colonial past, starting with renaming the country into a more local-sounding name? Myanmar did it by changing from Burma to Myanmar, for example.

I've seen names like Rizalia and Luzviminda float around when talking about a potential re-naming of Jose Rizal's archipelagic nation.